Accreditation Command: Capture Once, Report to Every Agency

**Short answer:** ApolloSRM's Accreditation Command captures each compliance datum once, in one canonical model, then projects it into every agency's report, calculation, and deadline — so the school stops re-compiling spreadsheets for each accreditor and starts running accreditation as a live system.

Why accreditation is so painful for career schools

A single school may answer to an institutional accreditor (ACCSC, COE, ACCET, ABHES, NACCAS, DEAC), one or more programmatic accreditors, the USDE, the VA, and the state — each with its own forms, thresholds, and definitions. "Placement rate" alone is calculated differently by ACCSC, COE, ABHES, and NACCAS from the same underlying students. Most schools track it all in spreadsheets and someone's memory, and one missed deadline can trigger a show-cause.

How Accreditation Command works

A canonical compliance model — the superset of what every agency could ask — sits in the middle. Each agency is a profile: an adapter that encodes that agency's standards, calculation rules, thresholds, and deadlines. Adding an accreditor means adding a profile, never a rewrite. The data is captured once and stays single-sourced; the profile applies the agency's own math.

What this looks like in practice

The same employer-confirmed placement dataset feeds ACCSC's "available for employment" formula, COE's related-employment method, ABHES's field-specific eligibility, and USDE Gainful Employment — with zero re-keying, every figure tracing back to a verified hire. Administrators get a live compliance dashboard color-coded against their agency's threshold, standard-to-evidence mapping (click a standard, see the proof), a compliance calendar of deadlines as assignable tasks, one-click report packs pre-filled from the canonical model, and an auto-assembled site-visit binder. It's decision-support, not auto-submit — the module prepares; your accreditation liaison reviews and signs.

The bottom line

Lose accreditation and you lose Title IV and the school closes — this is the highest-value compliance there is. Capture once and report to everyone, and the annual scramble becomes a system you run all year, with the binder always 90% assembled.