from [log in to unmask] Hey Mike, You might want to look into CEA (http://www.cea-accredit.org), which I gather is the federally designated accrediting agency for post-secodary ESL programs that wish to sponsor visas for ESL students. I don't know too much about this, but I'm pretty sure that as a university which already sponsors student visas, you have other accreditation options. However, since you mentioned that the SACS is notably tough, perhaps CEA would be a better bet? Even if you don't want to pursue accreditation with them, their directory of accredited programs at http://www.cea-accredit.org/directory.html lists many of the largest and most highly respected ESL programs in the country -- starting with the U of Alabama's ELI. Alphabetical advantage they get for putting up with the humidity .... --Thom Thomas Hammond, Director Language Center Harvard University ************************************************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning Technologies (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) **************************************************************************