Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) accreditation files, 1960-2022, undated
Scope and Contents
Series 5 contains accreditation records, preparatory documentation, and supporting documentation for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) accreditation processes. Each accreditation period contains the following documents: internal meeting minutes, correspondence, preparatory documentation (often including reports and statistics); the official college self-study for the Middle States Association; the Middle States visitation report to Barnard College after self-study and visit to campus; and the Periodic Review Report.
Dates
- Creation: 1960-2022, undated
Creator
- From the Collection: Barnard College. Provost and Dean of Faculty (Organization)
Access Restrictions
Some materials within this collection are restricted: Personnel records of faculty and staff (including search, tenure/promotion, and disciplinary/grievance records) are restricted for 75 years from the date of creation. Records of the Board of Trustees and any of its committees (including meeting minutes) are restricted 20 years from the date of creation. For more detail, see collection inventory.
Extent
From the Collection: 43 Linear Feet (84 document boxes; 15 half document boxes; 1 oversized box; 4 flat file folders)
From the Collection: 4.03 Gigabytes (13,156 items, 24 archived websites)
Language
From the Collection: English
Arrangement
Series 5 was organized in multiple ways upon receipt, which the archivist revised for easier access and reference. The archivist arranged this series into six subseries organized chronologically by the self-study period and further grouped topically by the record type: Subseries 5.1, Self-studies and preparatory documentation, 1960-1970; Subseries 5.2, Self-study and preparatory documentation, 1980; Subseries 5.3, Self-study and preparatory documentation, 1990; Subseries 5.4, Self-study and preparatory documentation, 2000; Subseries 5.5, Self-study and preparatory documentation, 2010; Subseries 5.6, Self-study and preparatory documentation, 2022.The contents themselves are described at the file level. The archivist conducted high level physical rearrangement to allow the digital materials to be easily integrated into a single system of arrangement. The digital materials, at the highest directory level, were placed into a new folder with a new file name.
Repository Details
Part of the Barnard Archives and Special Collections Repository