Accreditation

GRAND FORKS — The University of North Dakota’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences’ outlying campuses in Fargo, Bismarck and Minot will have less autonomy than in the past as the college works to comply with the findings of an accrediting agency. The Liaison Committee on...

GRAND FORKS — The State Board of Higher Education is looking at whether University System accreditation would be threatened if voters approve a November ballot measure to replace the board with a committee chosen in part by legislators. At a meeting Thursday, North Dakota University...

BISMARCK -- North Dakota legislators expressed varied viewpoints on how well the State Board of Higher Education has been governing state institutions at a meeting with a national accreditation team Tuesday. It was clear the most important thing to everyone was to make sure conflicts...

BISMARCK — The agency that accredits North Dakota’s 11 state colleges and universities will visit Bismarck on Monday and Tuesday to evaluate whether the University System is meetings its standards. The Higher Learning Commission will meet with campus presidents, University System...

The group that accredits North Dakota’s 11 state colleges and universities is concerned about a proposal to change the structure of higher education governance. Voters will decide in November whether to replace the current eight-member volunteer State Board of Higher Education...

The regulatory body charged with overseeing Dickinson State University’s educational status was scheduled to take up the school’s accreditation Thursday, but any decision may not be known for more than a week. The 18-person Higher Learning Commission Board of Trustees was scheduled...

Larry Skogen, interim chancellor of the North Dakota University System, said the Higher Learning Commission accreditation team plans to vote Thursday on the fate of Dickinson State University’s accreditation, after putting the school on notice in July 2012 over reports of phony...

By Stephen J. Lee Forum News Service GRAND FORKS -- The University of North Dakota’s leaders have been cramming for three years for a three-day test coming up this week. Five members of the Chicago-based North Central Association’s Higher Learning Commission will spend...

If the recommendation of a Higher Learning Commission panel is any indication, Dickinson State University could be on a path to being taken off "notice" status with the accreditation association. Through a Freedom of Information Act request, The Press recently received a copy of...