Timeline & Updates

**Hostos Middle States Self-Study Timeline**
Spring 2019	Self-Study Co-Chairs Identified
Spring 2019
Fall 2019	Hostos team attend MSCHE Self-Study Institute
	Campus-wide open forum and call for volunteers
	Steering Committee convened and charged
	Working groups convened and charged
	Self-Study institutional priorities identified
	Working group evidence report format finalized
	SharePoint site for evidence inventory developed
	MSCHE liaison spring visit scheduled

Spring 2020	Define working group research questions
	Working groups begin identifying and evaluating evidence
	Steering Committee approves selected evidence
	Steering Committee establishes shared lines of Inquiry to inform collaboration between working groups
	Hostos Self-Study website launched
	Two Self-Study open forums held
	Self-Study Design submitted
	MSCHE liaison visit held

Summer/Fall 2020	Evidence evaluation and verification
	Evidence gaps identified and strategy developed to address gaps
	Working groups submit reports on findings

Spring 2021	Self-Study report draft completed
	Community reviews draft and submits comments
	MSCHE selects evaluation team members and Hostos approves

Summer/Fall 2021	Hostos submits draft of report to MSCHE liaison
	Team chair preliminary visit
	Draft revision
	Draft submission

Spring 2022	MSCHE team site visit
	Team report
	Institutional response

Summer 2022	Commission determines action
Summer 2022

WG Co-Chairs are required to meet with the SC Co-Chairs two to three times

24-Jan	Working group (WG) Co-Chairs submit draft of research question to Steering Committee (SC)
30-Jan	Drafts of research questions are shared across working groups with request for feedback
4-Feb	Working groups and Steering Committee send feedback on research questions to SC Co-Chairs
5-Feb	WG Co-Chairs receive feedback on proposed research questions
10-Feb	Working groups begin to identify evidence needs to address research questions
11-Feb	WG Co-Chairs submit draft 2 of research questions to Steering Committee
14-Feb	WG Co-Chairs receive (1) response to draft 2 research questions and (2) draft of the Self-Study Design (SSD)
21-Feb	Working groups send (1) feedback to SSD and (2) a list of evidence aligned with each research question
27-Feb	College Wide Open Forum
28-Feb	SSD submitted to MSCHE
2-Mar	WG and SC attend meeting to discuss evidence. SC provides revisions to evidence list and alignment with research questions
4-Mar	Evidence list approval sent to WG Co-Chairs along with notification of shared lines of inquiry between groups
9-Mar	WG with shared lines of inquiry meet and establish collaboration protocol
13-Mar	Host Dr. Hilda Colon-Plumey, MSCHE VP
27-Mar	WGs submit first interim report
8-Apr	Working groups receive feedback from SC on first interim report
30-Apr	College-Wide Open Forum
1-May	WGs submit second interim report
14-May	Working groups receive feedback from SC on second interim report
18-May	WG Co-Chairs meet with SC to organize summer work

WG Co-Chairs are required to meet with the Steering Committee Co-Chairs two to three times this semester

September	Working groups meet twice. Develop third interim report
October	Working groups meet twice. Submit third interim report
November	Working groups meet twice and review feedback on draft
December	Working groups meet twice and submit final (fourth) report
January	Working groups meet as needed to address final questions regarding report

February	No meetings as draft of Self-Study is written
March	Working groups meet to review and respond to drafts of report
April	Working groups meet to address community feedback to self-study draft and submit response feedback to Steering Committee
May	Working groups meet once to address pending items