Association of Independent Living Groups

The AILG Accreditation Program

OVERVIEW

The Accreditation Program is an organized review of the living groups within the MIT Fraternity, Sorority, and Independent Living Group (FSILG) community. The program has two main objectives:

  1. to provide the MIT administration with a multi-dimensional evaluation of the health of each MIT FSILG chapter, and
  2. to create a forum for the AILG, the alumni leaders of MIT FSILG house corporations and advisory boards, and the undergraduates to actively discuss and exchange ideas on improving the FSILG community.
We are not aware of any effort close to this scale on other campuses, and believe the Accreditation Program is an important element in developing MIT's FSILG community and deepening the partnership between alumni, MIT, and the undergraduates that has characterized this community.

Our official contact is with each FSILG's alumni organization. As the AILG, the association of the alumni of FSILGs at MIT, our formal dialogue is with our members: the alumni representatives. To streamline the scheduling process, we contact both alumni and undergraduate officers, and both alumni and undergraduates are encouraged to ask questions of and communicate with the Accreditation Coordinator, to participate in the preparation of response forms, and to be present at the reviews. All "official responses" are always expected to be from the alumni officers, who are required to be at the reviews and expected to provide advice to and oversight of the undergraduate participants.

One result from accreditation is a recommendation to the Dean of Student Life. Currently, there are three options: recommended for accreditation, recommended for accreditation with reservations, and not recommended for accreditation. Reservations are reviewers' concerns that should be addressed by the living group. Action based on the recommendation is purely at the discretion of the Dean's office.

OVERSIGHT

The program is overseen by an Accreditation Committee, a subcommittee of the AILG, which is chaired by Herman Marshall. John Covert serves as the Accreditation Coordinator, providing staff support for the process. John can reached at covert(at)mit.edu.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For current scheduling and documents, please go to the Acreditation Coordinator's web page.

2008-09 REPORTS

PREVIOUS YEARS' REPORTS

PLEASE VOLUNTEER TO HELP

If you would like to become involved or have any questions, please feel free to write to John Covert, Accreditation Coordinator, at covert(at)mit.edu.