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Accreditation of
The Capital Region Career & Technical School by the Middle States
Association of Colleges & Schools
Accreditation process
promotes student success
The Capital Region BOCES Career & Technical School is accredited by
the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. To earn this
nationally recognized accreditation, our school successfully
completed an intensive
stakeholder survey, which includes self-study by staff, students,
parents, component school district representatives. Such
self-assessments are comprehensive and provide data to be used as a
tool for continuous improvement and positive change.
Indeed, to maintain our accreditation and prepare for a visit by a
Middle States team in the spring of 2012, Career and Technical
Education (CTE) staff, students, business partners and other
stakeholders are involved in ongoing accreditation activities. We
are currently in the second of six phases of the Middle States
Reflections on Standards of Quality (CTE Version) protocol, which
involves self study and information gathering. When each CTE program
has completed its individual self study, we will analyze data and
identify priorities for growth and improvement. Our overriding goal
is to promote student success in school, career and life.
Middle States Accreditation as a Protocol for Growth &
Improvement at Career & Tech
The Middle States protocol is part of a strong,
single plan for growth and improvement that uses multiple, rich
sources of data and information, including:
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- NY SED CTE Program
Approval/Re-approval
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- BOCES CTE Quality Indicators
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- Collaboration with other BOCES (JMT)
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- Charting the Future, Senior Survey,
Alumni Survey research projects
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- Middle States Self Study
View the Middle States
PowerPoint presentation to the Capital Region BOCES Board of
Education, March 2008
Interesting Middle States facts
* The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools was
established in 1887.
* The association is a non-profit, peer-administered organization.
* The activity now known as accreditation is traceable to the guild
orientation of the medieval academic communities. The word
"accreditation" is derived from middle French, old Itallian usage.
The first meaning of its root term is "trustworthiness."
* Accreditation agencies enjoy a unique "public trust" role in the
United States. In other words, accredited institutions can be
trusted by the public to be what they claim they are and to do what
that they claim to do.
* Middle States accreditation is voluntary and it is a
volunteer-driven process.
* The focus of the Middle States accreditation is on overall
institutional and organizational issues, rather than on a specific
program or operation.
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