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| back | | Brewster Commended by Accrediting Body | | January 2011 | | | The Commission on Independent Schools of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) recently commended Brewster Academy on the school’s five-year interim evaluation report.
The Academy last went through its re-accreditation and self-study process in 2006, as required by the NEASC of independent schools every 10 years. In that review, the accrediting board recommended specific areas in which Brewster could improve.
“The list of ways Brewster has improved is laudable,” said William M. Bennett, director of the commission, in a letter to Head of School Dr. Michael E. Cooper. “The school has taken specific steps to deepen and broaden its development efforts, to initiate ways faculty can be part of the policy-setting process, to establish exciting directions in the curriculum, and to open communication among many areas of school life.”
During its re-accreditation process in 2006, the visiting committee members voted unanimously in the affirmative on 67 of 77 standards necessary for accreditation. Of the 10 standards that did not receive a unanimous affirmative response, each one received between five and seven affirmative responses; overall, an excellent “grade” report. It was the improvements in these areas to which Bennett referred in his letter.
“The Commission feels Brewster is poised to become an even stronger school going forward. The Commission commends the school on its work of the last three years as well as the report itself,” Bennett added.
Brewster has received continued accreditation since its initial membership with the NEASC in 1933. The NEASC is the regional accrediting body, providing accreditation services for more than 2,000 public and private institutions for programs from pre-kindergarten through the doctoral level. | | back | |
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