The University has received high grades and words of praise from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which accepted UD’s Periodic Review Report (PRR) as part of its ongoing evaluation process.

The commission is the accrediting arm of the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges and at its November meeting also acted “to reaffirm accreditation and to commend the institution for the quality of the report.” That action completes the PRR review process. Receipt of a commendation for the quality of a PRR is quite rare and denotes that Middle States regards the report as a model for others to emulate, UD Provost Dan Rich says.
The PRR is a retrospective, current and prospective analysis of the institution, due five years after each institution’s last decennial self-study and reaffirmation of accreditation.

The University’s PRR focuses on the institution’s progress since the last Middle States site review in 2000-2001 and identifies academic priorities and benchmarks for the next review in 2010-2011.

The 2000-2001 Middle States evaluation is highly laudatory, noting that the goals set out by President David P. Roselle a decade earlier had been accomplished. The evaluation team members were “enormously impressed by the high level of morale that pervades the faculty, staff and students. Almost without exception, the people we spoke to take great pride in being part of the University.”

“Better than almost any university we are familiar with,” the report states, “Delaware has a clear sense of what it wants to be, namely, a university that offers a high-quality undergraduate education with targeted areas of excellence in graduate education and research.”

The report concludes, “The University of Delaware has every reason to take enormous pride in what it has accomplished.”