Rutgers University is currently undertaking a wide-ranging, intensive, and far-reaching analysis of its performance in a number of critical areas, as it seeks re-accreditation by the national Middle States Commission on Higher Education in the spring of 2008.

Whether or not Rutgers earns the re-accreditation can have an enormous influence on the university's national reputation and its eligibility for federal government assistance. These factors, in turn, can seriously change the value of a Rutgers degree and the costs of tuition.

The authors of the Rutgers self-study have identified the following issues as the most urgent challenges facing the university in the next ten years:

• Undergraduate enrollment management and educational progress
• Improving curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular services
• Broadening undergraduate educational offering and general education
• Continued development and improvement of off-campus and distance learning, non-credit, certificate programs, and cooperative education offerings
• Using the research and graduate context to enhance undergraduate education
• Assessment of student learning
• Studying the student characteristics, educational offerings, and faculty engagement of the Rutgers-Newark campus
• Community engagement on the Rutgers-New Brunswick and Rutgers-Camden campuses
• Intercampus governance.

The latest draft of the Rutgers self-study can be read here:
http://middlestates.rutgers.edu/report_final.shtml

See also:
Fascinating facts about Rutgers, revealed in the Middle States self-study