Comprehensive Evaluation
Timeline
Timeline for 2027-2028 Comprehensive Evaluation
FALL 2025
September 2025 - December 2025
- Begin drafting 2027-2028 assurance argument outline
- Create template based on HLC format and institutional themes
- Survey evidence sources
SPRING 2026
January 2026 - May 2026
- Finalize assurance argument outline
- Draft argument based on outline for each criterion
- Evidence collection and editing begins
SUMMER 2026
May 2026 - August 2026
- Prepare penultimate draft of the assurance argument
- Evidence collecting and editing begins
FALL 2026
September 2026 - December 2026
- Evidence collecting and editing continues
- Make the assurance argument available for comment
- Incorporate assurance argument comments
- Prepare the final version of assurance argument
- Complete federal compliance review
SPRING 2027
January 2027
- HLC survey of NTU students
- Submit the assurance argument report to HLC
SUMMER 2027
August 2027
- Assurance system lock date
FALL 2027
September 2027
- HLC site visit: Sep 27-28, 2028