Chapter 5
Saginaw Valley State University: Academic Programs

5 Academic Programs

This chapter discusses academic programs in nine sections:

This chapter addresses the following General Institutional Requirements for Accreditation of a University:

9. It employs a faculty that has earned from accredited institutions the degrees appropriate to the level of instruction offered by the institution.
10. A sufficient number of the faculty are full-time employees of the institution.
11. The faculty has a significant role in developing and evaluating all of the institution’s educational programs.
12. It confers degrees.
13. It has degree programs in operation, with students enrolled in them.
14. Its degree programs are compatible with the institution’s mission and are based on recognized fields of study at the higher education level.
15. Its degrees are appropriately named, following practices common to institutions of higher education in terms of both length and content of the programs.
16. Its undergraduate degree programs include a coherent general education requirement consistent with the institution’s mission and designed to ensure breadth of knowledge and to promote intellectual inquiry.
17. It has admission policies and practices that are consistent with the institution’s mission and appropriate to its educational programs (cont.).
18. It provides its students access to those learning resources and support services for its degree programs.

This chapter provides evidence for Criterion 2:

The institution has effectively organized the human, financial, and physical resources necessary to accomplish its purposes.

This chapter provides evidence for Criterion 3:

The institution is accomplishing its educational and other purposes.

This chapter provides evidence for Criterion 4:

The institution can continue to accomplish its purposes and strengthen its educational effectiveness.