Peer Review Team Resources
- Peer Reviewer Data Update System
- Travel Reimbursement and Honoraria
- General Forms & Guides
- Eligibility
- Candidacy
- Biennial Evaluation
- Initial Accreditation
- Comprehensive Evaluation
- Comprehensive Quality Review
- Systems Appraisal
- Quality Initiative
- Multi-location Visit
- Financial and Non-financial Indicators
- Focused Visit
- Substantive Change
Peer Reviewer Data Update System
Peer reviewers can log in to the Peer Reviewer Data Update System to review and update their profile information.
Travel Reimbursement and Honoraria
New Peer Reviewers: If you are a new peer reviewer and have not submitted an IRS W-9 form with HLC, download the form from the IRS and submit it with your Travel Expense Form.
General Forms & Guides
Objectivity and Professional Confidentiality Forms: Visits and Panels
On-Site Visit: Procedure (2014)
Providing Evidence for the Criteria for Accreditation (March 2018)
Interim Monitoring: Considerations for Peer Reviewers (2019)
Determining Pathway Eligibility (2018)
HLC provides guidance for institutions and peer reviewers in its Statement on Peer Reviewers Serving as Independent Consultants .
Tribal Colleges and Universities and Higher Learning Commission Accreditation – Considerations for HLC Peer Reviewers provides context for peer reviewers who may not be familiar with the unique characteristics of Tribal Colleges and Universities.
Criteria Guidelines
Dual Credit Guidelines for Institutions and Peer Reviewers
Determining Qualified Faculty: Guidelines for Institutions and Peer Reviewers
Shared Services Arrangements Guidelines (November 2017)
Two-Year Institutions Seeking to Offer the Baccalaureate Degree: Considerations of Readiness
Eligibility
Eligibility Review Template (March 2019)
Candidacy
Assumed Practices Worksheet (March 2019)
Eligibility Requirements Worksheet (March 2019)
Federal Compliance Procedure Overview and Team Worksheet
Biennial Evaluation
Report Template for the Biennial Evaluation Visit (March 2019)
Assumed Practices Worksheet (March 2019)
Eligibility Requirements Worksheet (March 2019)
Initial Accreditation
Assumed Practices Worksheet (March 2019)
Eligibility Requirements Worksheet (March 2019)
Federal Compliance Procedure Overview and Team Worksheet
Comprehensive Evaluation
The following documents are additional resources related to the comprehensive evaluation:
- Federal Compliance Procedure Overview and Team Worksheet
- Guidelines for the Evaluation of Distance Education (Online Learning)
- Multi-campus Reviewer Form
- Multi-campus Visit: Information for Institutions and Peer Reviewers
- Embedded Change Report
- Assumed Practices Worksheet (for use when evaluating institutions on Show-Cause)
- Exit Session Procedure for HLC Visits
Comprehensive Quality Review
Federal Compliance Procedure Overview and Team Worksheet
Systems Appraisal
Systems Portfolio and Appraisal Overview (October 2017)
Team Worksheets
- Team Reflective Overview (October 2017)
- Independent Review (October 2017)
- Consensus Review (October 2017)
- Category Feedback Guide (October 2017)
- Criteria for Accreditation Evidence Check: Team Assignments (October 2017)
Quality Initiative
Quality Initiative Process (August 2019)
Quality Initiative Proposal Panel Review Form (August 2019)
Quality Initiative Report Panel Review and Recommendation Form (August 2019)
Multi-location Visit
Multi-location Visits: Information for Institutions and Peer Reviewers (June 2015)
Multi-location Visit Peer Review Report Template (August 2019)
Financial and Non-financial Indicators
Financial and Non-Financial Indicator Process (May 2019)
Financial Panel Report (May 2019)
Non-financial Panel Report (May 2019)
Focused Visit
Requirements and procedures for institutions submitting materials to peer reviewers and HLC for a focused visit
Focused Visit Report Template (2019)
Substantive Change
Change Panel
Change Panel Protocol for Peer Reviewers (September 2018)
Report Template for a Change Panel (September 2016)
Change Visit
Requirements and procedures for institutions submitting materials to peer reviewers and HLC for a Change Visit
Change Visit Protocol for Peer Reviewers (September 2018)
Report Template for a Change Visit (September 2018)
Campus Evaluation Visit
Campus Evaluation Visits: Information for Institutions and Reviewers (March 2017)
Report Template for Campus Evaluation Visits (March 2017)
Additional Location Confirmation Visits
Additional Location Confirmation Visit: Information for Institutions and Peer Reviewers (March 2017)
Additional Location Confirmation Visit Report Form (March 2017)