Atlantic Cape’s Mora to Chair Middle States Team

MAYS LANDING—Atlantic Cape Community College President Peter L. Mora accepted an invitation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education to chair the decennial accreditation evaluation visit to Genesee Community College in New York.
The on-site evaluation visit, which is a key component of the 10-year accreditation process for colleges, is scheduled for April 2017. This is the second time Dr. Mora has been invited by the commission to chair an evaluation team visit. He headed the team for the 10-year evaluation to Hagerstown Community College in Maryland in April 2015.
Dr. Mora is the only president in the 50-year history of Atlantic Cape Community College to have chaired a decennial accreditation team for the MSCHE.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is a voluntary, nongovernmental, regional membership association serving higher education institutions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other geographic areas in which the commission conducts accrediting activities.
The MSCHE assures students and the public of the educational quality of higher education. The commission’s accreditation process ensures institutional accountability, self-appraisal, improvement and innovation through peer review and the rigorous application of standards within the context of institutional mission.