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
Travel Expense Reimbursement Form
IRS W-9 Form
Peer reviewers must provide HLC with a current W-9 form in order to receive honoraria or travel reimbursements. Submit the W-9 using HLC’s secure document submission form. Select “Finance” from the list of submission options to ensure it is sent to the correct HLC staff member.
General Forms & Guides
Objectivity and Professional Confidentiality Forms: Visits and Panels
On-Site Visit: Procedure (2014)
Providing Evidence for the Criteria for Accreditation (2019)
Interim Monitoring: Considerations for Peer Reviewers (2020)
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 (September 2020)
Determining Qualified Faculty: Guidelines for Institutions and Peer Reviewers (September 2020)
Two-Year Institutions Seeking to Offer the Baccalaureate Degree: Considerations of Readiness (September 2020)
Eligibility
Eligibility Review Template (October 2019)
Candidacy
Assumed Practices Worksheet (October 2019)
Eligibility Requirements Worksheet (November 2019)
Federal Compliance Procedure Overview and Team Worksheet
Biennial Evaluation
Report Template for the Biennial Evaluation Visit (September 2020)
Assumed Practices Worksheet (October 2019)
Eligibility Requirements Worksheet (November 2019)
Initial Accreditation
Assumed Practices Worksheet (October 2019)
Eligibility Requirements Worksheet (November 2019)
Federal Compliance Procedure Overview and Team Worksheet
Comprehensive Evaluation
The following documents are additional resources related to the comprehensive evaluation:
- Evaluations of the Criteria for Accreditation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- 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 Visit Report
- Assumed Practices Worksheet (for use when evaluating institutions on Show-Cause)
- Exit Session Procedure for HLC Visits
- Verification Visits: Information for Institutions and Peer Reviewers
- Verification Visit Team Template
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
- Template with revised Criteria for Accreditation (effective September 1, 2020)
- Template with Criteria for Accreditation effective prior to September 1, 2020 (for visits originally scheduled to occur prior to September 1, but which were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
Verification Visits: Information for Institutions and Peer Reviewers
Verification Visit Team Template
Substantive Change
Change Panel
Change Panel Protocol for Peer Reviewers (September 2019)
Report Template for a Change Panel (September 2019)
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 2019)
Report Template for a Change Visit (September 2019)
Campus Evaluation Visit
Campus Evaluation Visits: Information for Institutions and Reviewers (September 2019)
Report Template for Campus Evaluation Visits (September 2019)
Additional Location Confirmation Visits
Additional Location Confirmation Visit: Information for Institutions and Peer Reviewers (Septemeber 2019)
Additional Location Confirmation Visit Report Form (September 2019)