Glen Oaks Community College received approval from the State of Michigan in 1965 to offer collegiate level courses. Full accreditation status was conferred upon Glen Oaks by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (NCA) in April, 1975. In March of 1983, Glen Oaks was granted accreditation for 10 years, covering period May, 1983 to May, 1993. In 1993 Glen Oaks Community College received accreditation for 7 years for the period covering 1993-2000. In September of 2000, the College accreditation was extended for 7 years covering the period of 2000 through 2007-2008.
Academic work done at Glen Oaks is correlated with the programs of major colleges and universities throughout the United States. Courses designated as transfer and graded as satisfactory in this College will be accepted at full value at many other colleges and universities. Courses in the career program are designed to provide specific experiences required of people planning to enter a vocation
Launched in July 1999 with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Academic Quality Improvement Project (AQIP) attempts to infuse the principles and benefits of continuous improvement into the culture of colleges and universities by providing an alternative process through which an already-accredited institution can maintain its accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. With AQIP, an institution has the opportunity to demonstrate it meets the Higher Learning Commission's accreditation standards and expectations through sequences of events that naturally align with those ongoing activities that characterize organizations striving to improve their performance. By sharing both its advancement activities and the results of these actions with AQIP, an institution provides the Higher Learning Commission with the evidence it needs both to make a public quality assurance judgment and to support and to assist the institution in its efforts to excel at achieving the distinctive higher education mission it has set for itself. (“Origin and Purposes of the Academic Quality Improvement Project”)
On May 21, 2004, the College submitted the Systems Portfolio to the Academic Quality Improvement Project of the Higher Learning Commission of The North Central Association of Colleges and Schools in compliance with the reaccreditation process for participating AQIP institutions. A team of AQIP evaluators will review the document and provide feedback to the College. The College will respond to that feedback, review its systems and processes in light of the AQIP Criteria, and update the current document for resubmission in 2008.
Click here to view the document in its entirety: Complete System Portfolio
(Individual Criteria can be referenced here.)
(Copyright 2002, Academic Quality Improvement Project, The Higher Learning Commission)