Purpose

The Self-Study Process is organized around MTU's Strategic Plan, which has eight Strategic Goals. For each Goal, one committee (three subcommittees for Goal 1) has been formed and charged with gathering and interpreting data related to that Goal, as well as developing patterns of evidence that demonstrate how well MTU meets the criteria associated with the Goal. A Steering Committee, chaired by Professor Christa Walck (School of Business and Economics), manages this process, in consultation with our NCA staff liaison, Dr. Cecilia Lopez.

This is a very important task, since accreditation is vital to MTU. NCA expects to find evidence that the process of self-study was taken seriously and broadly distributed, and was not a perfunctory exercise conducted by a few administrators. The President, The Provost, and more than 100 administrators, faculty, staff, and students are committed to this project.