Step 2: Candidacy Status
The second step in the accreditation process, Candidacy Status provides your academic unit/sport management program an opportunity to prepare itself for the development of a Self-Study (step 3) and a site visit (step 4). All programs must provide the following materials in their application:
1. Application for Candidacy Status
2. Outcomes Assessment Plan Template
​3. Outcomes Assessment Plan Checklist
4. Bloom's Taxonomy
​5. Scope of Accreditation Checklist

Once you have a draft of your Candidacy Status application, use the Outcomes Assessment Plan Checklist (#2 above) to review it. You are strongly encouraged to send a draft of your application to Heather Alderman for review before any deadline.

The Board of Commissioners makes decisions about Candidacy Status applications bimonthly and, as time allows, during their biannual face-to-face meetings. Deadlines occur every two months:
February 15, 2021
April 15, 2021
​June 15, 2021
​August 15, 2021

Accreditation Principles and Self-Study Preparation Manual
Accreditation Process Manual
Site Visit Preparation Manual

The following 8 COSMA members are in Candidacy Status. An asterisk (*) means the program has had or has planned a site visit. Last updated December 21, 2020.

Elon University, Elon, NC
Winston Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
Lasell University (Master's degree), Newton, MA
East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA*
Alfred State College, Alfred, NY
​Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ
​Regis College, Weston, MA
University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO