American Academy for Liberal Education: Publications

Please note that the following documents and descriptions under this section are intended for Universities and Colleges within the United States only. See Applications and Standards and Criteria for further information. For International applications, please click here.

Standards and Criteria for Institutional Accreditation Application for Preaccreditation Application for Institutional Accreditation	For new colleges or universities that have not been accredited previously or are not currently accredited, see the Application for Preaccreditation. For accredited institutions that want AALE to be their accreditor of record; institutions that are reapplying for AALE accreditation; or institutions that want AALE and their regional accreditor to conduct a joint accreditation review, see the Application for Institutional Accreditation.
Standards and Criteria for Program Accreditation Application for Program Accreditation	For colleges or universities that seek AALE as their programmatic accreditor for a program within the institution that grants a Baccalaureate.
Standards and Criteria for Certification Application for Certification	For colleges or universities with a liberal arts core or group of courses that, while required, do not lead to a Baccalaureate or for colleges or schools that do not offer a full Baccalaureate degree.
Policies and Procedures with Appeals Manual	AALE's handbook of policies and procedures for accredited programs and institutions.
Bylaws	The Academy's Bylaws.
Self Study Manual Guide to Self Study	Information and Guidelines for the completion of the Self Study.
Site Visit Manual	Information and Guidelines for the planning of third party site visits.
Annual Institutional Reporting Form Monitoring of Institutions Supplement to Annual Institutional Reporting Form	Must be completed by each Accredited institution or program annually. Institutional Representatives will be contacted with due dates.
AALE Self-Evaluation Survey	This document is for those schools and/or third parties to comment on the appropriateness of AALE's unique curriculum Standards and Criteria. The Academy welcomes third party comments, but please include your name, title, and affiliation. The deadline for returning the survey is September 1, 2008.

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If you would like to receive copies of any of these publications by regular mail or as an e-mail attachment, contact the Academy at aaleinfo@aale.org. Please include the name of the document(s) you require and your mailing or e-mail address in your message.

For our research publications and other general documents, please see the general Publications page.