{"id":5856,"date":"2014-02-25T16:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=5856"},"modified":"2014-02-25T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T21:19:59","slug":"morningside-to-welcome-higher-learning-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/5856","title":{"rendered":"Morningside to welcome Higher Learning Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5858\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" alt=\"hlc-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2014\/02\/hlc-logo-200x132.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2014\/02\/hlc-logo-200x132.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2014\/02\/hlc-logo.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>By Hannah Hecht&#8211; On March 17-19th, Morningside will be host to representatives from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The HLC is a group that assesses colleges across the nation and decides whether or not the college will be accredited. Morningside students should be aware that the representatives might ask them questions on a host of topics such as affordability, curriculum, requirements for graduation, or transfer policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe HLC writes up a self-study report and then visits with faculty, staff, and students to confirm their results,\u201d said Dr. Leslie Werden.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Werden and Nick Brincks, a student member on the steering committee to prepare for the visit, students should answer questions from the HLC representatives honestly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, if you don\u2019t know an answer to one of their questions,\u201d said Brincks, \u201cJust make sure to tell them \u2018I don\u2019t know.\u2019 Don\u2019t make something up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The steering committee and student government are in the middle of a campaign to raise awareness across campus about what HLC is and what their visit will mean for the college. They are even distributing green HLC t-shirts to be worn on the days of the visit and running a photo contest. Any students can enter the contest by taking a creative picture of him or her wearing the shirt and using their twitter account to tweet at @MorningsideSG. The most creative submission will win $25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hannah Hecht&#8211; On March 17-19th, Morningside will be host to representatives from the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The HLC is a group that assesses colleges across the nation and decides whether or not the college will be accredited. Morningside students should be aware that the representatives might ask them questions on a host of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":5858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5859,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5856\/revisions\/5859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}