So my name is Sabah Granjawa. I am Provost and Executive Vice President of the Oregon State University.

And we represent all the members of the team from Northwest Nation on colleges and universities.

So before I can give you a little bit of what we are trying to do.

What I'd like to do is to have a college to introduce myself.

So I'm Bob DeLay. I do Vice President of the University of Plenty and Vice Provost of Seattle University.

Hi, I'm Susan Halvin. I'm the Vice President at Student Affairs and Athletics and Energy and Students at Enfield College in Michigan,

the Oregon State University. I'm Lisa Carson. I'm the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Pacific University in the

College of Oregon. I'm Dr. Mena Mena. I'm the Associate Vice President of the Washington

Climate and the Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. I'm a large associate academic vice president.

I'm Lisa. I'm Sarah.

So just so that you know and perhaps you already do know that you know this process is not

this commission is an independent entity but really is staffed by volunteers like us.

And so you have faculty from for example from your institution that going with it.

Other institutions when we are being accredited and you go for a similar cycle.

So the the accreditation process is a seven year cycle with all academic institutions that

be in this region and this region covers about 150 institutions in Remarkless, that includes Alaska,

Pennsylvania, Washington, Idaho, your state, and I'm doing music.

So that's not that I want to.

The goal of the visit is that you know first of all the standards that the commission has really

are designed for institution to be on a sort of continuous improvement cycle.

For them to articulate their own goals articulate you know what they are trying to achieve their

priorities and to gauge progress towards it. And so every seven years we have some open seats and

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