My colleague Amanda Shoaf Morrison from Scholaro has updated her excellent resource on French accreditation. Thank you for sharing!
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CINALC: A Regional Recognition Network for Latin America and the Caribbean
Garrett Seelinger from InCred/National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and I gave a presentation on CINALC at the 110th AACRAO Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on 31 March 2025. Gonzalo Baroni Boces, President of CINALC, also participated via a pre-recorded video since he was not able to join us in person. The session description is below:
Join us for an introduction to CINALC, a UNESCO-prompted effort among nations in Latin America and the Caribbean to facilitate educational mobility in the region. We’ll discuss the history and plans for implementation of policies that are intended to improve the quality of higher education as well as facilitate the mobility of learners and qualified workers throughout the region.
The slide deck is below.
The video clip from Gonzalo is below.
Survey of Religious Education
My colleagues Stephanie Cloninger (AACRAO), Matthew Cwiklinski (Scholaro, Inc.), Lindsey Gullicksrud (Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc./ECE), and I recently prepared and delivered a pre-conference workshop at the 2024 TAICEP Annual Conference in Quebec City entitled “Survey of Religious Education”. This four-hour workshop covered pontifical, madrasah, and yeshiva education in depth, with a focus on secondary and post-secondary academic credentials. We covered the following:
- Samples of religious education documents that credential evaluators might see
- How to find the appropriate recognition or confirm that there is no legal recognition, including a discussion about approved versus recognized (i.e., allowed to operate versus allowed to operate AND getting a higher secondary certificate which allows access to tertiary education)
- How to find legislation governing religious education
A copy of our slide deck and the reference guide we created to accompany the workshop are both available here:
Education in the Bahamas
Last month, I gave a short presentation on education in the Bahamas work at our monthly team meeting. The slide deck is now available. Please note that the policies referred to are specific to the Global Transcript Evaluation team, so the policies may not apply to another institution or office.
Update to the Website!
I recently updated the look of this website. I am currently working on editing this site to be specifically related to international credential evaluation. You may notice that some previous pages are no longer available. I am still working on the structure of the site, so it’s possible that I may republish some of those pages, although they will possibly be in a different format. Never fear though: I archived all the pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine! Let me know what you think of the new look!
France Accreditation Cheat Sheet
Determining recognition/accreditation in France can be challenging. My friend and colleague Amanda Shoaf Morrison from Scholaro recently posted her France Accreditation cheat sheet on the TAICEP listserv, and she has graciously given me permission to share it on this site. Amanda succinctly explains that accreditation in France is programmatic and what credential evaluators should look for when trying to determine if a program is accredited. I fully admit that I still occasionally get baffled with French accreditation, so I find this document SO HELPFUL and refer it to whenever I need some guidance. Merci, mon ami!
Overview of Education in the Holy See
I prepared an overview of education in the Holy See for the Association of International Credential Evaluators’ monthly forum today. A copy of the PDF handout is available. The practice video is available here: https://youtu.be/w6qBcS0gGl0
Additionally, I created a short video to review an affiliated major seminary transcript/ecclesiastical faculty diploma credential and how to determine recognition. You can access that video here: https://youtu.be/4niEBmrqoZQ
Determining Policy on Electronic Credentials
I will present this session at the 2022 NAFSA Texas State Meeting later today. This is the session description: COVID-19 has had many impacts on higher education. One of these is the ability to receive official international documents from overseas due to school and postal delays/closures. Many schools now want to send documents electronically. This can range from something like retrieving documents from an electronic portal to receiving email attachments which may be sent directly from an institution, which can cause concern about the safety and authenticity of the credential. This session will provide an overview of best practices on electronic credentials and tips to develop or update your policy on receiving electronic credentials, using Walden University’s Global Transcript Evaluation Team’s policy as an example.
Below are the slide deck and handout PDFs. A link to the practice recording of the session is here: https://youtu.be/xaXLX3X8LRs. Since this is not a video from the actual presentation, it does not include any questions. If there are any questions during the live presentation, I will add a Q&A summary as soon as I can.
AMENDED: Education in Mexico slide deck and handout from TAICEP 2021 Virtual Conference
As promised in November during our live session, Barbara, Ena, and I have made some slight edits to correct some typos. These are a little later than anticipated, but thank you for your patience – we think it was worth the wait!
La Educación en México: Una Breve Guía Para Evaluadores de Credenciales (Education in Mexico-A Brief Guide for Credential Evaluators)
My colleagues Ena Chaisson from MacEwan University and Barbara Glave from SDR Education Consultants and I will present a session at the TAICEP 2021 Annual Conference entitled “La Educación en México: Una Breve Guía Para Evaluadores de Credenciales (Education in Mexico-A Brief Guide for Credential Evaluators)”. Attached are our PowerPoint slide deck and a reference guide we created to accompany the presentation. We hope that this reference guide helps you as you evaluate Mexican credentials! Please contact Ena, Barbara or me if we can provide any additional information or assistance.
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