Navigating the Site

Navigational Aids (Breadcrumbs): Each page within the site has a breadcrumb trail located below the page header and repeated at the bottom of the page (e.g., UT Arlington >> SACS >>). The breadcrumb trail will take the user to the main UT Arlington SACS website page or to the UT Arlington homepage. 
 
Site Navigation:Information within this site is also arranged categorically. The four categories are: Introduction, Reference Room, Compliance Certification Reports and Quality Enhancement Plan(QEP).  
 
Introduction: The Introduction contains a welcome message from the UT Arlington President, suggestions for navigating the site, preferred technical requirements (hardware, software, printing and settings), Reaffirmation Team flowchart, Reaffirmation Timeline and Site Map. The Site Map displays the structure of the entire SACS Reaffirmation website.

Reference Room: The Reference Room lists the major sources of documentation used in the compliance audit and has three sections: University Profile System (UPS), Reference Area and the Document Library. The UPS provides information regarding UT Arlington's academic units, administration and faculty. The Reference Area provides links to information about the UT System, UT Arlington, UT Arlington's colleges and schools and documents such as UT Arlington Catalogs and Compliance Certification Report Glossary. The Document Library provides links to the major documents and source references included in the Compliance Certification Report.

Compliance Certification: The Compliance Certification section contains the HTML formatted Compliance Certification Reports and the Table of Principles. Each Compliance Certification Report has three sections: judgment of compliance, narrative regarding the justification of compliance and supporting documentation for the justification.

Judgment of Compliance: The judgment of compliance provides three options: compliance, partial compliance or non-compliance. For each report, a checkmark is placed in the box to the left of the judgment of compliance, noting which option UT Arlington has deemed appropriate. 

Narrative: The narrative provides UT Arlington's justification for its judgment of compliance. Double clicking on the number displayed in color (e.g., [1]) will take the reader to the supporting documentation section of the report.

Supporting Documentation: The Supporting Documentation Table is located at the end of each Compliance Certification Report and contains all of the narrative's references. The four columns of each Supporting Documentation Table are in numerical sequence and cross-reference the numbers in the narrative.

Column 1 notes each reference's Source or Document Title in ascending numerical sequence.

Column 2 notes the document type (html, PDF, xls or non-electronic file).

Column 3 notes the Document Excerpt or Captured Documentation for each reference. Many of the documents used to support UT Arlington's reports are quite long or are web-based. In order to prevent time-consuming downloads and/or inaccessible web pages, UT Arlington has created excerpts and/or web captures for some of the supporting information. If internal is gray (internal) instead of blue (internal), there is no internal link for the document. Links to files within the excerpt are not necessarily applicable as evidence for compliance and the links may require Internet access to be viewed.

Column 4 notes the Original Document or Document Location for each reference. These links go to the original documents from which the excerpts were taken. If the original file is a small PDF, Columns 2 and 3 will be the same. If the original file is in HTML format, Internet access is required to view the reference. If external is gray (external) instead of blue (external), there is no external link for the document. 

The Table of Principles is an electronic documentation of UT Arlington's extent of compliance in a table format. The Table details SACS requirements, UT Arlington's judgment of compliance and the website location of each of the Compliance Certification Reports.

Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP): The QEP includes a QEP Overview and information regarding the QEP: Steering Committee, Timeline, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and QEPs from other Universities.

Notes:  
1.) Because references such as catalogs, handbooks and schedules are modified on a periodic basis, the original document listed in Column 4 may be a later version or publication than the excerpt in Column 3.
2.) Some document sources are only available in hard copy format. In such cases, the campus location where the document is located can be determined by clicking on the internal link in Column 3.  
3.) Files that require a password are also noted by clicking on the internal link in Column 3.