100+ Institutions
Supported in Accreditation, Licensure & Compliance
Your Mission. Our Roadmap.
We cut through the complexity of accreditation, state licensure, strategic planning, and ongoing compliance. Our team starts with a project plan built around your institution’s mission, goals, budget, and timeline. From there, we collaborate with your team on the applications, self-studies, exhibits, data, plans, and reports to tell your institution’s story in your voice. Institutions see the value of these efforts through achieved accreditation and compliance goals, enhanced internal processes, and improved student outcomes.
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Higher Education Consulting Services
Accreditation
Accreditation has its own language, culture, and unwritten rules. We’re fluent. Whether it’s institutional accreditation (e.g., DEAC, MSCHE, ACCET, ACCSC), or programmatic accreditation (e.g., ACEN, CSWE), we guide you through the entire lifecycle, from choosing the right agency to your application, self-study, and exhibits.
Strategic Planning
We facilitate workshops and lead an institutional analysis (SWOT and PESTLE), before drafting a 3- or 5-year plan with clear action items, budgets, and timelines. Every plan is mapped to your institution’s goals, true to your mission, compliant with regulator requirements, and designed to support sustainable growth.
State Licensure
It’s surprisingly easy to break a state’s laws without ever realizing it. Whether you need institutional licensure in your home state, programmatic approval from a state board, or authorization across all fifty (yes, even if you’re fully online), we map the requirements that apply to you and help you build the applications to meet them.
Title IV Support
Title IV eligibility opens the door to federal student financial aid. Whether you’re just starting out or already established, we help you weigh the pros and cons, and if it’s a good fit, build Title IV policies and audits into your plans from the ground up or restructure your existing operations to meet ever-changing requirements.
Licensing Agencies
State licensing agencies must make consistent, defensible decisions about who gets to operate. We help you refine the policies and processes behind your state licensure approvals, and we evaluate whether new institutions meet your requirements or are positioned to pursue accreditation.
Accrediting Agencies
We provide supplemental support for policy, procedure, and accreditation standards reviews, US Department of Education and CHEA recognition, complaint processing, and Civil Investigative Demands. We also create the templates and training resources your staff relies on to make objective and standards-based decisions.
Accreditation Checklist
This free, downloadable checklist is a great tool to evaluate your institution’s preparedness for accreditation. It highlights areas and tasks that are often overlooked and gives your institution some milestones to reference on your accreditation journey.
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