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2020 HLC Focused Visit

This content was archived 04/02/2026

Welcome HLC Reviewers and Members of the MSU Community. We recommend you begin with the full PDF report, which includes explanatory narrative and discussion of the evidence items in each section of the report appendix. All evidence items in the report appendices are duplicated here, as are additional examples and links into pertinent parts of MSU’s document archives.

HLC Action Item 1. Produce all requested documentation, complete, organized and accessible when requested by HLC, the team, IAC or Board.

Evidence

Item 1 Supplemental Evidence

HLC Action Item 2. Develop, implement, and monitor a plan to assure that course level outcomes are being assessed to the extent necessary to ensure outcomes are being met for all programs and in all modalities.

Evidence

Item 2 Supplemental Evidence

HLC Action Item 3. Develop and implement policies and processes to ensure that the work, contact hours, and assessment practices for all courses taught in a compressed format are equivalent to their 16-week counterpart.

Evidence

Item 3 Supplemental Evidence

HLC Action Item 4. Provide copies of syllabi for any and all courses offered through multiple modes of delivery, demonstrating that the scope and specified learning outcomes and activities for the courses are equivalent.

Evidence

Item 4 Supplemental Evidence

HLC Action Item 5. Retain its suspension of scheduling 2-week classes until these new processes have been fully implemented.

Evidence

Item 5 Supplemental Evidence

HLC Action Item 6. Implement, monitor, and ensure that all course syllabi contain a minimum standard of information as approved by the Faculty Council by designing a syllabus template that includes but is not limited to, outcomes, term, number of credits of the course, work schedules or assignments, and critical course and institutional policies.

Evidence

Item 6 Supplemental Evidence

HLC Action Item 7. Create and implement a review process and accountability system to ensure that all syllabi comply with these expectations.

Evidence

HLC Action Item 8. A detailed assessment plan that includes learning outcomes and standardized assessment practices in co-curricular programming and activities

Evidence

HLC Action Item 9. Designate a place and establish a procedure in which all assessment data is reviewed, stored and available to constituent groups.

Evidence

Item 9 Supplemental Evidence

HLC Action Item 10. Provide two complete cycles with clear evidence that it consistently and systematically links its planning process, assessment of student learning, and budget prioritization. Further, the institution must take steps to establish an appropriate policy to assure that the process is systematic and sustainable beyond current personnel, who have an institutional history and know how the system works.

Evidence

Item 10 Supplemental Evidence

Item 10 Additional Budget Resource Links Requested by HLC Peer Team
Added 9 March 2020

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