Service Opportunities at HLC
HLC has the following employment and volunteer opportunities:
Employment
HLC is seeking applications for the positions below.
- Meetings and Events Manager: Position Description | Job Posting
- Senior Support Specialist: Position Description | Job Posting
Peer Corps
HLC relies upon the work of peer reviewers for its accrediting activities. These volunteers generously share their knowledge and experience to assure and advance institutional quality.
HLC is not seeking new peer reviewers for the 2020–21 academic year, as HLC currently has enough trained volunteers to accomplish its peer review activities. The next application period will open in September 2021.
Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows
HLC offers faculty members, independent scholars, and graduate students opportunities to work on a dedicated project connected to higher education accreditation that may use HLC resources and data. This program was created to advance the following purposes:
- To support a new or ongoing research project by studying and analyzing data or reports submitted to HLC by its member institutions or peer reviewers.
- To pursue a research question using HLC’s data and other resources.
- To create resource materials for print or web-based publications designed to benefit member institutions or the higher education community.
- To advance an approved independent research project submitted by a research scholar or graduate student that will enhance understanding of current issues facing higher education and support the public good.
For more information, visit HLC’s Program for Visiting Scholars and Research Fellows.
Academy Mentors
Academy Mentors offer guidance, advice and feedback to institutions in the Assessment Academy and Persistence and Completion Academy. Mentors work with one or more institutions throughout the four-year Academy experience to assist the institutions in developing and implementing their projects related to assessment or persistence and completion.
Periodically, HLC seeks new Mentors. The ideal mentor has experience in the assessment of student learning or student persistence and completion and has been working in the field for at least five years.