Advocacy Agenda

The 2022 HLC Advocacy Agenda provides a voice for HLC’s strategic directions on higher education issues at the federal and state levels. HLC is committed to representing its member institutions of higher education with a commitment to thought leadership. This commitment extends to providing input on all relevant legislative-, executive-, and judicial-branch issues as they pertain to HLC, accreditation and higher education writ large.

Partners for Transformation

2017–2019

HLC’s Partners for Transformation was a blue-ribbon panel tasked with offering innovative ideas on accreditation of colleges and universities. This group of higher education thought leaders conceptualized 21st-century accrediting practices that assure quality in higher education and ultimately better benefit students in today’s world.

The group’s work culminated in a series of thought papers on student-focused accrediting agencies, an accreditation infrastructure focused on shared services, and the roles of the Triad of federal and state bodies and accrediting agencies.

Innovation: Beyond the Horizon and the Future of Higher Education (April 2019)