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Teryl D. Loeffler, Superintendent of Schools
Tracy Chavez de McGuire, Administrative Secretary
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Regarding Accreditation and Licensing:
All of the Hawaii Conference schools are accredited by the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities. AAA, as it is typically called, is the accrediting body established by the Seventh-day Adventist Church to provide coordination, supervision, and quality control to its education system. This accreditation mechanism plays a significant role in fostering confidence in the educational enterprise of the church. Accreditation and the self-study process serve to maintain minimum standards, enhance institutional effectiveness, and provide inter-institutional recognition. Accreditation is concerned principally with the improvement of educational quality in institutions operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church around the world. Accreditation of an institution by AAA signifies that the institution has a purpose appropriate to service the educational needs of those in its constituency and has the resources, programs, and services sufficient to accomplish the institution’s goals. The accrediting standards used by the Adventist Accrediting Association make up the criteria for accreditation. These criteria are subject to periodic evaluation and provide consistent guidelines for the evaluation of educational institutions.
In addition to the AAA accreditation, all of the Hawaii Conference schools are accredited by the National Council for Private School Accreditation. NCPSA is a consortium of Accrediting Associations for the Recognition of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Private Schools. We believe that the NSPSA national school accreditation is important to our schools as a further level of quality assurance to the community, the state, and to the nation. NCPSA accreditation denotes that our schools are part of a larger community of quality, accredited private schools that represent the spectrum of private education in the United States and around the world.
Further, Hawaiian Mission Academy is also accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The mission of WASC is to advance and validate quality ongoing school improvement by supporting its private and public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary member institutions to engage in a rigorous and relevant self-evaluation and peer review process that focuses on student learning.
All of the Hawaii Conference schools are members of the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools and are licensed by the Hawaii Council of Private Schools.
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