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Culminating this process is the publication of a self study report. It is our pleasure to share with you Oakton’s 2007 Self Study, which may be accessed in its entirety from this page. The report is a comprehensive examination of how the College embodies our mission, vision, and values in practices and policies, and represents the direct efforts of more than 100 Oakton faculty, staff, students, and administrators. Our self study is organized around the five criteria for accreditation adopted by the Higher Learning Commission, the accrediting agency charged with assuring the quality of higher education in the country’s North Central Region.

The next step in the reaccreditation process is the visit of our HLC consultant-evaluator team from October 15-17, 2007. The team will spend those two days talking with a wide range of Oakton students, faculty, staff, administrators, and members of our external community. At the end of their visit, they will provide an exit report summarizing their impressions of the College, along with their preliminary recommendations. We will receive a final report from the HLC, based on the team’s recommendations, approximately 8-12 weeks after the visit.

We are proud of the work completed by the College community thus far on our self study and reaccreditation process and are confident that our efforts will make us an even stronger, more effective institution of higher learning. We invite you to share in this effort by reading the self study, as well as brief biographies about our visiting team and other relevant information about the 2007 reaccreditation process.

Tom Bowen and Kathleen Carot
Co-chairs, HLC Steering Committee