Fiscal Year 2019

Effective Date of Establishment:  09/2014

Authorizing Body or Official: Provost

Board Reports to: Executive Vice President and Provost

Scope of Impact: System

Type of Board: Standing

Contact Information:  Shelly Stovall sstovall@nmsu.edu 

Chair:  Shelly Stovall sstovall@nmsu.edu 

University function/office responsible:  Office of Accreditation

Voting Members:

Executive Director Shelly Stovall

AVP Susan Wood

Lead Institutitional Researcher Greg Hillis

Chief Academic Officer NMSU-C Andrew Nwane

Professor NMSU-G Marlene Chavez-Toivanen

Process for selecting a chair:  Appointment by position 

Position appointment description:

HLC Accreditation Liasion Officer from each independtly accredited system campus (Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Dona Ana, Las Cruces), and representative from the Grants campus.

Requirements for number of annual meetings:  2

Major Accomplishments:

Established a working website and collaborative shared workspace in Office 365.

Reorganized to distinguish HLC ALO work apart from college and department ALO positions/work.

Drafted a plan for collaborative approach to ongoing accreditation processes that increase efficiencies and reduce redundancies across system campuses.

Members are appointed by:  Position

Purpose:

The purpose of the ALO Council is to facilitate communication, coordination and collaboration across allNMSU system campuses regarding regional accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) andspecialized/professional accreditation of academic and student service units.

Authority: 

The ALO Council serves in an advisory role to the Executive Director of Accreditation and the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost.

Major Accomplishments:

Development of a Living Assurance Argument.

Shared resource documents and practices for HLC accreditation.

Facilitated a system-wide Institutional Research team to attend a 3-day workshop to develop shared code for running credit hour report for HLC accreditation, and identify a system shared mission and purpose for Institutional Research offices.