Dear EPDP team colleagues:

Attached is a memo that is intended to clarify some of the issues related to accreditation. It is meant to be an objective identification of the issues involved, not an advocacy of a particular position. Specifically, I see two distinct purposes that can be identified that people are often combining or confusing when they discuss accreditation. This memo isolates them, defines them, and tries to tease out their implications.

I hope that staff/Janis can agree to distribute this memo when we enter into accreditation discussions on the agenda.

Dr. Milton L Mueller

Georgia Institute of Technology

School of Public Policy