The Office of Accreditation and Assessment works to ensure that Teachers College provides sufficient and adequate evidence that it meets national, state, and institutional standards and that collection of such evidence is beneficial to programs and students without imposing excessive burden and disrupting educational process.
Toward this mission, OAA serves the following functions:
- Coordinating college-wide self-studies in preparation for continuing accreditations by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, preparing periodic reports to these agencies, and organizing site visits;
- Assisting academic programs in self-studies and external program reviews by specialty professional associations;
- Facilitating continuing data collection on student learning outcomes and institutional effectiveness for internal improvement and external accountability/ accreditation purposes;
- Maintaining electronic databases and collections of records and documents associated with the accreditation of Teachers College and individual academic programs;
- Facilitating collaboration among programs and offices within the College in designing and conducting evaluations; and,
- Promoting a culture of assessment and accountability at all levels of the College.
MSCHE Accreditation
Teachers College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education as of June 2006. The next periodic review report is due June 1, 2011; the next evaluation visit is scheduled for 2015-2016.
Letter of Accreditation *
Self-Study Design *
Institutional Report
NCATE Accreditation
Teachers College programs preparing teachers and other school professionals are accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education as of October 2005. The next NCATE site visit is scheduled for spring 2010.
Letter of Accreditation * Conceptual Framework *
Institutional Report *
2006 Annual Report*2007 Annual Report
Program Accreditations
The following programs are accredited by specialty professional associations:
- Applied Behavior Analysis (Council for Exceptional Children)
- Blindness and Visual Impairment (Council for Exceptional Children)
- Clinical Psychology (American Psychological Association)
- Counseling Psychology (American Psychological Association)
- Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Council on Education of the Deaf)
- Education Leadership ( Educational Leadership Constituent Council)
- Learning dis/Abilities (Council for Exceptional Children)
- Mathematics Education ( National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
- Mental Retardation (Council for Exceptional Children)
- Nutrition Education (Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education)
- Physical Education (National Association for Sport and Physical Education)
- Reading Specialist (International Reading Association)
- School Psychology (American Psychological Association)
- School Psychology (National Association of School Psychologists)
- Speech and Language Pathology (American Speech and Hearing Association)
- Teaching of English (National Council of Teachers of English)
- Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)