Preparing a Web-based Accreditation Application
General
This website template can be used to present your application for CIPS Accreditation in a compact form, eliminating or reducing the need for paper documents.
Many of the documents required for an accreditation application are likely to be available on-line at your university, in which case you can simply include appropriate URLs. Documents not available on-line can be scanned and converted to PDFs (see tools, below) if they are small enough to make that feasible. Large documents not available on-line will have to be sent to CIPS in paper form.
Procedure
Documents
Listed below are documents other than those for which templates or examples are provided .
Some of these items are required for the application, as indicated. The others are ones that you might consider including. You might also choose to include documents not described here.
The following list is organised according to the items in the navigation side bar.
A graph showing the prerequisite relationships between your courses.
[REQUIRED] If your university provides calendars (undergraduate and/or graduate) or handbooks online, provide pointers to them from the "Calendars" popup. Otherwise you will need to provide paper copies of these documents.
[REQUIRED] If your faculty members are employed under a collective agreement, include a pointer from the "Staffing" popup to that agreement if it is available online. Otherwise you will need to submit paper copies.
Include documents (or pointers to online documents) which describe academic support facilities provided to students; for example:
Include documents (or pointers to online documents) describing any programs that foster linkages between your department and industry.
Include any other documents (or pointers to online documents) which you feel are relevant, for example: