Why is CAAHEP and not the Committee on Accreditation (CoA) the accreditor?
The simplest answer is that your committee is a member of CAAHEP for the purpose of having a nationally recognized organization accredit the profession that your committee represents. CAAHEP provides legal liability coverage to your committee and assures oversight and due process to all programs that participate in the CAAHEP system of accreditation. As such CAAHEP is responsible for handling all appeals that are a result of a committee’s recommendation and the: CAAHEP Board of Directors subsequent action. CAAHEP is the accreditation expert while your committee is the profession’s expert. 3) How does an educational program become CAAHEP-accredited? While there are some differences among the 18 professions within CAAHEP, all accredited programs must go through a rigorous process that has certain elements in common: • Self-Study -the program does its own analysis of how well it measures up to the established Standards. • On-Site Evaluation -a team of “site visitors” travels to the instit
