Evaluators have scheduled a site visit for this month, and administrators hope to receive the accreditation, the standard seal of quality for most colleges, next spring.
But because of an early growing season and a timing hiccup affecting the certification process, it has at least temporarily been tough on landscapers, some of whom have found themselves unable to pursue business as usual until they receive the accreditation mandated by the law.
Seventy-five percent of the institutions' IRBs had received the optional IRB accreditation by the Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs AAHRPPP).
In 2005, the school received full accreditation from the American Bar Association, the fastest such clearance possible.
One quarter of the hospitals received full accreditation by the Healthcare Accreditation Institute (similar to the US's Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations).
The service has received accreditation from the Psychiatric Liaison Accreditation Network of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and also won a prestigious Health Service Journal Award for innovation in mental health in 2010.
In 2012, the Teaneck Police Department received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), following a two-year-long process that documented the department's compliance with 112 standards established by the organization as best practices.
Many airports display art — the San Jose International Airport has a cutting-edge video installation on the sensitive theme of surveillance, for example — but the San Francisco International Airport's exhibition program is the only one in the country to have received accreditation from the American Association of Museums.
The fourth such large exhibition in this suburban factory campus and its open outside space since the museum received official accreditation in 2012, this season at The Street Art Museum features 60 or so artists from 12 countries who look to the events 1917 for inspiration.
Under Ms. Gedeon's leadership, the museum also received accreditation from the American Association of Museums.
While most of the programs that have received AAHRPP accreditation are located in the United States, AAHRPP has also accredited programs in Canada, Singapore, and South Korea.
