Recent Changes
April 2024
- The 2024 Edition of the Principles of Accreditation: Foundation for Quality Enhancement [PDF]
- Resource Manual for the 2024 Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement [PDF]
This Manual is a companion piece to the 2024 Principles of Accreditation, providing guidance to applicant, candidate, and member institutions as well as to evaluation committees of the Commission.
March 2024
- Interpretation to Core Requirement 9.3 of the Principles [PDF](Interpretation)
- Mission Statement of the Commission [PDF](Policy)
- Full-time Faculty [PDF](Guideline)
- Three-Year Baccalaureate Degree Programs [PDF](Position Statement)
- Non-Degree Credentials [PDF](Guideline)
- Update on Accreditation Status Saint Augustine’s University, Raleigh, North Carolina [PDF] (Updated 03/09/2024)
January 2024
- Name Change Cross Reference List [PDF]
- Documentation for the Interim Off-Campus Instructional Sites Committee [Word]
- Report of the Candidacy Committee [Word]
- Interpretation to Core Requirement 9.3 of the Principles [PDF]
- Report of the Interim Off-Campus Instructional Sites Committee [Word]
- Report of the Fifth Year Interim Committee [Word]
- Report Forms for Substantive Change Committees
- Branch campus [Word]
- Change in governance [Word]
- Direct Assessment Competency-Based Education Programs [Word]
- Distance education / electronic expansion [Word]
- Level change (higher level) [Word]
- Merger/consolidation non-SACSCOC entities [Word]
- Merger/consolidation SACSCOC entities [Word]
- Off-campus site (not a branch campus) [Word]
- Prison Education Program [Word]
- Program expansion (significant departure or move to lower level)[Word]
- Program expansion at a new off-campus site [Word]
- Application for Membership [Word]
- Application for Membership [PDF]
- Accredited and Candidate List [PDF]
- Report of the Reaffirmation Committee [Word]
- Report of the Reaffirmation Committee [Word] (Differentiated)
- Compliance Certification Document [Word]
- Compliance Certification Document (Differentiated Review) [Word]
- 2023 June and December Candidates Third Party [PDF]
December 2023
- Addendum to Compliance Certification Reaffirmation Class of 2024B and 2025A [Word]
- Complaint Procedures Against SACSCOC or Its Accredited Institutions [PDF]
- Credit Hours [PDF]
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion [PDF]
- C-RAC’s Statement on Changing Accreditors
- December 2023 Accreditation Actions and Public Disclosure Statements
- June 2023 Accreditation Actions And Public Disclosure Statements
September 2023
July 2023
- Institutional Name Change Cross Reference List [PDF]
- Time Lines for Reaffirmation Tracks; 23, 24, 25, 26 (Regular and Differentiated)[PDF]
June 2023
- Index of SACSCOC Documents [PDF]
- Accreditation Procedures for Applicant Institutions [PDF]
- Core Requirement 3.1.b: Documenting an Alternative Approach [PDF]
- Disclosure of Accrediting Documents and Actions of SACSCOC [PDF]
- Dues, Fees and Expenses [PDF]
- Litigation: Institutional Obligations [PDF]
- Committing to the Common Good Connecting College Learning and Civic Vitality [PDF]
- Student Authentication in Online Learning [PDF]
- Annual Report 2022
April 2023
March 2023
- Substantive Change Policy and Procedures [PDF]
- Redline Substantive Change Resource [PDF]
- Accreditation Records Retention, Maintenance and Destruction Policy for SACSCOC [PDF]
- Ethical Obligations of Evaluators [PDF]
- Ethical Obligations of Members of SACSCOC Board of Trustees [PDF]
- Ethical Obligations of SACSCOC Staff [PDF]
- Fifth Year Interim Review Process [PDF]
- Institutional Obligations for Public Disclosure [PDF]
- Policies, Guidelines, Good Practices, and Position Statements: Definitions for Accreditation Purposes [PDF]
- Sanctions, Denial of Reaffirmation, and Removal from Membership [PDF]
- Time Lines for Reaffirmation Tracks; 23, 24, 25, 26 [PDF]
- 2025 Track A (Undergraduate Institutions) [PDF]
- 2025 Track B (Graduate Institutions) [PDF]