Clatsop Community College
1653 Jerome, Astoria OR 97103
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Contact: Nadine Faith (503) 338-2306

CCC Receives Good News From Accrediting Agency

Clatsop Community College received good news this month from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU). The agency reaffirmed the college’s accreditation and accepted the college’s Spring 2006 Regular Interim Evaluation Report.

“This is great news and some well-earned validation of the hard work that all of us have been doing to provide quality education that is fully accessible to the people of Clatsop County and elsewhere,” said CCC President Dr. Greg Hamann.

At the same time, the NWCCU requested that the college provide them with progress reports in the fall of 2007 on two issues: Educational Outcomes and Assessments and Facilities.

“Neither of these recommendations came as a surprise and were, “in fact, timely reminders to us of two issues to which we will be directing a great deal of attention in the year to come,” Hamann said. “CCC has made great progress in both areas in the past few years, and the text of the NWCCU Interim Report affirms that progress and commends the college for that progress. But both CCC and the accrediting agency are in agreement that this work is not yet done.”

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) is an independent, non-profit membership organization recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as the regional authority on educational quality and institutional effectiveness of higher education institutions in the seven-state Northwest region of Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. It fulfills its mission by establishing accreditation criteria and evaluation procedures by which institutions are reviewed.

You can download a copy of the letter here. (.pdf file)