Ithaca College Earns Reaccreditation
	The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools has granted Ithaca College reaccreditation for another 10 years. In a letter to Ithaca College president Peggy R. Williams, the regional accrediting body's Commission on Higher Education wrote that it had voted to reaffirm the College' status as an accredited institution. "I appreciate both the commission's acknowledgment of our excellence and the hard work put in by the entire College community to achieve that distinction," says Williams. "We found the self-study process and the discussion during the site team visit to be most instructive. The exit report in November and the subsequent written report submitted by the team affirmed much of what had been identified in the self-study as our strengths as well as issues in need of further consideration and attention." In its report, the site team wrote that in visiting Ithaca College it had "found an institution that has recently faced some significant challenges but that has come through a difficult period in very good shape. The faculty, the curriculum, the students, and the facilities are all very good. Recommendations for improvement focus on planning, governance, outcomes assessment, and curricular distinctiveness." "We got a clean bill of health," says acting provost Mary Lee Seibert, who cochaired the Middle States Institutional Self-Study Steering Committee with associate professor Laura de Abru¤a. "There's always some low-level anxiety when you are going through this kind of approval process, but there was nothing unexpected either in the team's report or the commission's endorsement. We'll be able to use all of this information as we plan for the future." The commission has asked the College to submit a letter in the fall of 1999 giving a status report on institutional planning efforts. As is standard, a periodic review report will be due in 2002.