Welcome to College of the Redwoods Public Accreditation Website

 This site was created to share information related to CR's response to Accreditation recommendations for Fall 2007. Out intention is keep the community fully informed about CR’s Accreditation status.

Historical Timelines of CR’s probation status

• A nine-member accreditation team made a site visit to CR Oct. 18 through Oct. 20, 2005.
• After the team submitted its report to the commission, CR was notified in February 2006 that it had been placed on warning status.
• A progress report was submitted by CR on March 15, 2006.
• Following a team site visit, CR was continued on warning by a commission decision in June 2006.
• CR was required to submit a second progress report by March 15, 2007 followed by a commission team site visit in April 2007. 
• The commission met in June and made its decision to place CR on probation status.

Here are the four areas of concern the commission has stated that CR needs to correct before it can get full re-accreditation.

Recommendation 1 (2005): The team recommends that the college develop and implement a means of systematic, collaborative, and evidence-driven program review for all instruction, students services, and institutional support areas. In order to assure maximum effectiveness, such reviews should be conducted on a regular cycle that links the findings to annual planning processes for all programs and services.

Recommendation 5 (2005): The team recommends that the district improve its planning processes to include: the development of a long-range educational plan; the development of a facilities master plan; and the development of an information technology plan. It is further recommended that the district develop a long-range financial planning process to provide early notice of structural imbalances between revenue and expenditures; to identify resources needed to adequately support changes in technology systems, facilities, and enhancement to student support systems; and to regulate the pace of changes consistent with available funds.

Recommendation 6 (2005): The team recommends that the college develop a financial plan that will accomplish the following goals: Respond to declining revenue resulting from the loss of full-time equivalent students, establish a prudent and sufficient unrestricted general fund balance reserve, address changes in annual expenditures to assure that such expenditures are equal to or less than available resources.

Recommendation 7 (2005): The team recommends that the college improve its capacity for collaborative and data-driven decision-making. Such decision-making should incorporate broad-based participation, use of qualitative and quantitative data, and establish appropriate measures of effectiveness.

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