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Southeast HVAC News
Sullivan College of
Technology and Design in Louisville, Kentucky Granted HVAC
Excellence Accreditation.
 With
over 1,200 HVAC programs in the United States, how can prospective
students identify which program will put their career on the fast
track to success? How can an employer identify a program that has
the resources and administrative support to help them find graduates
for employment? They do this by looking for a program that has been
granted HVAC Excellence programmatic accreditation.
Programmatic accreditation is where an independent third party
reviews a program against set educational and industry standards in:
the mission of the program, administrational responsibilities,
finances and funds, student services, instruction design and program
elements, physical facilities, equipment and tools, cooperative
training, instructor qualifications.
In order to pursue accreditation the staff at a school has to submit
a self-study filled with narratives and examples of how they
complied with each of the required standards. The self- study once
completed was sent to the HVAC Excellence accreditation review board
to thoroughly assess for compliance against each standard. HVAC
Excellence having approved the self study sent an onsite team to
conduct an intense onsite review of the program. The onsite team
consist of two members, one who has served years as an HVACR
instructor, the other as a school administrator. These onsite team
members are seasoned professionals that possess the knowledge,
training and experience to successfully evaluate every aspect of an
HVACR program. The selection of these team members gives integrity
to the accreditation process and provides students with confidence
in the program. Story
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Upon a thorough
review of all of the documentation presented by the schools and
the onsite accreditation team, the HVAC Excellence accreditation
review committee decided to grant accreditation of the program.
Now that the program has been granted accreditation it can:
provide students with quality assurance of the program, provide
employers assurance that graduates are properly trained, can
assists in establishing articulation agreements, an eligibility
determinant for funding, can increase enrollment, student
placement and employer satisfaction is enhanced, requires
faculty participation in self-study and annual reporting, can
assist students in the acceptability of transfer credits,
creates goals for self-improvement.
Learn more about the nationally accredited program at the
Sullivan College of Technology and Design by visiting them
online at
https://www.sctd.edu
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