Accreditation Process

Provost Priorities: Accreditation

Demonstrating academic rigor, program quality and student achievement.

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History and Timeline

In 2023, five teams of faculty and staff began preparing Mizzou for its 10-year reaccreditation process in 2025. Each team compiled documentation to support each of the criteria from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).

  • In November 2024, we conducted a two-day mock site visit and hosted informational Zoom sessions to prepare for the questions we might receive during the HLC site visit.
  • In January 2025, we submitted our assurance argument to HLC.
  • The HLC site visit was held on February 3-4, 2025. During the visit, external peer reviewers came to campus to meet with stakeholders and make observations related to the evidence we submitted.  Representatives from groups of faculty, staff, and students were asked to participate in site visit sessions, based on the external reviewers’ requests.
  • May 2025: Mizzou received notice from HLC that we successfully received affirmation of our accreditation status. Read more from President Choi and Provost Martens.
Mizzou's Accreditation Page

Enhancing Student Learning Outcomes

Mizzou's Educational Assessment app

Jonathan Cisco, Director of Educational Assessment, and Misty Haskamp, Senior Director of MU Analytics, discuss the development and implementation of the in-house Educational Assessment App and process, designed to streamline curriculum mapping and assessment processes across 300+ degree programs. At the HLC Annual Conference in April, they talked about creating customized, scalable assessment tools and processes that enhance student learning outcomes and institutional efficiency.

Jonathan Cisco at HLC Presentation in April 2025.

Involvement in the Accreditation Process

200

Number of people the HLC site visitors met with while on campus

688

Number of students, faculty, administrative leaders, and staff participated in the preparation for reaccreditation

580

Students completed HLC survey

Engagement with Educational Assessment App

8,088

Course Objectives

24,919

Course Objectives Mapped to Program Outcomes

HLC Student Survey

Strengths include student supports such as:

 

  • Office of First-Generation Initiatives

 

 

  • Supports for online students

 

 

  • Advising services

 

 

First-Generation Success Stories Resources for online students Transfer Center offers peer advising mentors

HLC Student Survey Feedback

"As a distance only learner, Mizzou has made it very seamless to complete my degree. I've had great support and resources and feel like I'm part of the campus, even though I do not attend any in person classes. I feel that the online courses are engaging and appropriate for my field of study and the instructors have been phenomenal."

student on computer