Dharma Jairam, assistant professor in the graduate education program, recently was selected to evaluate other colleges and universities as a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission.

Dr. Dharma Jairam, assistant professor in the graduate education program at Morningside College, recently was selected to evaluate other colleges and universities as a peer reviewer for the Higher Learning Commission.

The Higher Learning Commission is the accreditation-granting agency for colleges and universities in the central United States.  As a peer reviewer, Jairam will be part of a small team of usually three or four people who visit the colleges and conduct reviews for obtaining and maintaining their accreditation. He will complete training to become a peer reviewer in October.

“The peer reviewers play an incredibly important role in all stages of the accreditation process,” according to the Higher Learning Commission. “They are responsible for assuring that an institution is complying with the accreditation criteria as well as for helping an institution advance within the context of its own mission.”

Jairam joined the faculty at Morningside College in the summer of 2015. He has a doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.