To the campus community,

I write to update you on the planning for Bowdoin’s 2017 Reaccreditation.

We have selected members of the Bowdoin faculty, staff, students, and board of trustees to serve on the Reaccreditation Committee. The primary work of the Reaccreditation Committee is to draft a self-study, which will highlight Bowdoin’s achievements over the past decade and our ambitions and goals for the upcoming decade. The self-study will address each of the nine standards that our accrediting agency, New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), has established: Mission and Purpose; Planning and Evaluation; Organization and Governance; The Academic Program; Students; Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship; Institutional Resources; Educational Effectiveness; and Integrity, Transparency, and Public Disclosure. All members of the Bowdoin community will be invited to participate in conversations about our self-study in the 2016-17 academic year.

Reaccreditation Committee

Co-chairs:

Jen Scanlon, interim dean for academic affairs and professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies
Tina Finneran, vice president for institutional research, analytics & consulting

Jeanne Bamforth, assistant to the dean for academic affairs
Bill Barker, Isaac Henry Wing professor of mathematics
Rachel Beane, professor of earth and oceanographic science and liaison for faculty, and incoming associate dean for academic affairs
Steve Blanc, vice president & associate chief information officer
Chuck Dorn, associate professor of education, chair of the education department, and incoming associate dean for academic affairs
Tim Foster, dean of student affairs
Cathy Hayes, student health insurance coordinator
Jim Higginbotham, associate professor of classics on the Henry Johnson professorship fund, associate curator for the ancient collection in the museum of art, and associate dean for academic affairs
Scott Hood, senior vice president for communications and public affairs
Mohamed Nur ’19
Matt Orlando, vice president for finance and assistant treasurer
Eli Orlic, vice president and special assistant to the president & secretary of the college
Jane Pinchin, trustee
Brian Purnell, associate professor of Africana studies and history
Clayton Rose, president
Rayne Sampson ’18
Jennifer Snow, educational research consultant
Whitney Soule, director of admissions
Birgit Tautz, professor of German

Dr. Patricia O’Brien, senior vice president of the commission on institutions of higher education from NEASC, will be meeting with the Reaccreditation Committee. Following Dr. O’Brien’s visit to campus and conversations with committee members, NEASC will begin the process of identifying the Reaccreditation Visiting Team chair and members. The Visiting Team will review our self-study before coming to campus on November 5-8, 2017.

I look forward to engaging in our decennial self-study as a campus.

Clayton