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In the fall of 2006, WCU underwent reaffirmation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the major accrediting body for public and private institutions of higher education in the 11 southernmost states. I served as the editor of WCU's Compliance Reports.

In December of 2006, Carol Burton (WCU SACS Director) and I presented (at the annual SACS -COC conference) a session on writing the compliance report. After being encouraged to do so by the feedback from that session, Ann Hallyburton (Associate Editor) and I ran (at the annual SACS -COC conference in December of 2007) a 1/2 day workshop on writing issues related to preparing the compliance reports and the QEP.

The following materials relate to that workshop. We hope you find them useful as you prepare for your own reaffirmation.

Please feel free to contact me if you would like more information regarding writing and editing; my CV details my academic and professional experience in this area.

Materials

"Writing and Editing Strategies for Compliance Certification"
Powerpoint Presentation on writing issues related to preparing compliance reports
PDF version of handouts used in workshop (included style sheet and progress matrix samples)
SACS Report Template
This template provides a model for report preparation. Each standard receives its own "section" and the running footer changes to reflect each section (making it much easier to flip through a hard copy to find the standard you want).
You are welcome to use this template to prepare your own reports. If you do so, please email me. I'd like to keep track of which institutions base their reports on our template - thanks.
Sample Progress Matrix This Excel worksheet (which was updated weekly) allowed us to track the status of each report.
Style Sheet

PDF version of the Style Sheet we developed for WCU's compliance reports
Group Work Handout The group revision exercises used during the workshop
Sample Revisions Possible revisions of the exercises in the Group Work Handout

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