Reaccreditation Timeline
University of the Pacific is accredited by the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC). Pacific is scheduled to renew its accreditation by the WSCUC in 2018-19. Key dates in the reaccreditation process are:
Summer 2018: Pacific submits its self-study to WSCUC.
Fall 2018: WSCUC conducts an off-site review of Pacific.
Spring 2019: WSCUC visits Pacific to conduct an on-site review.
Reaccreditation process overview:
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Fall 2016: Pacific's Reaccreditation Steering Committee and Working Groups began the two-year process of reaccreditation by working on Pacific's self-study data collection—collecting information provided by academic and administrative units across the university and interviewing stakeholders.
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2016-17 academic year: Steering committee chair Tamara Phelan, professor of physical therapy and assistant vice provost for educational effectiveness; Cyd Jenefsky, vice provost for strategy and educational effectiveness; and members of the Steering Committee visited with a wide range of campus stakeholder committees and forums to discuss the team's preliminary findings from Pacific's self-review study.
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Fall 2017: The Steering Committee and Working Groups drafted and reviewed components of the institutional report.
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Spring 2018: A draft of the report was available for universitywide review.
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June 2018: The committee used this evidence to produce a 74-page institutional report that describes different aspects of the university and the four "hallmarks" of a Pacific education. (PacificNet login required)
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August 2018: The WSCUC peer review team evaluated our institutional report and responded with a list of commendations and lines of inquiry (areas of focus for their site visits). (PacificNet login required)
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Beginning January 2019: The WSCUC peer review team will visit our three campuses on the following dates to gather more information from students, faculty and staff:
| San Francisco: Jan. 31 Sacramento: Feb. 13 Stockton: March 5-7 |
- March 7, 2019: At the end of the Stockton campus visit, the team will conduct an exit meeting open to the entire university community frm 11:30 a.m. to noon, where they will report to us their commendations and recommendations.
To learn more about Pacific's reaccreditation process, contact Dr. Cyd Jenefsky, vice provost for strategy and educational effectiveness at cjenefsky@pacific.edu.
Members of the university community can learn more about Pacific's reaccreditation process on the WSCUC SharePoint site.