National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission Records

Collection consists primarily of agendas and minutes from board of directors, committee, and review panel meetings (1949-1996); reports generated by NLN, committees, and review panels (1939-1997); and NLN publications and accreditation-related references (1937-1994). A few lists and compiled data identify NLN members who participated as site visitors (1964-1993). A small segment of the collection holds information provided by NLN to the Department of Education and the Council on Post-secondary Education (1989-1992) in support of maintaining continued official recognition of NLN's accreditation authority.

Series 1 (1950-1994) holds mostly meeting agendas for the wide variety of committee and boards that do the NLN's accrediting work, augmented by some files containing information provided to meeting members for their consideration in advance of meetings. Series 2 (1949-1996) consists solely of minutes of meetings, many of whose agendas are in Series 1. Series 3 (1939-1997) represents reports of two primary types: those generated by various committees and councils, varying from specific topics to annual organizational summaries; and extensive files from a handful of nursing schools covering several decades' worth of accreditation evaluation data. Series 4 (1964-1993) consists of site visitor roster lists and information collected by field inspectors tasked with making site visits to organizations seeking accreditation. Series 5 (1989-1992) contains information provided by NLN to the Department of Education and the Council on Post-secondary Education about both its own authority to be an accrediting body and its own accrediting processes. Series 6 Publications (1937-1994) is organized into two subseries. The first is a call-numbered series of books and pamphlets addressing nursing school curricula and accreditation principles which may have served as and NLN's administrative reference collection. The second is a chronologically-sorted collection of NLN publications which offer guidance to schools seeking accreditation and to NLN site visitors is followed by a comprehensive set of newsletters covering a 25-year period.