Professional accreditation consulting for postsecondary institutions
Matulin Consulting helps colleges, career schools, and online institutions earn accreditation, keep it, and stay in good standing with the agencies that oversee them.
Services
Bring me in for one filing, one site visit, or an ongoing compliance role.
Hands-on help through the full cycle, from your first gap review to the response after your site visit.
New program approvals, changes of location, annual reporting, and other filings your accreditor requires. Tell me which agency you work with, and I'll say plainly whether I'm the right fit.
Multistate distance-education reviews, physical-presence and exemption analysis, state inquiries, licensing filings, and renewals.
Institution and program approvals, returned applications, catalog revisions, compliance visits, and contracted School Certifying Official support.
Enrollment holds, deficiency notices, and agency inquiries. I draft the narrative response, assemble the evidence, and fix the underlying documents.
Catalog remediation, transfer-of-credit policies, enrollment agreements, and annual completion, placement, and licensure disclosures.
Needs analyses, employer validation surveys, approval packages, degree-level changes, and regulatory due diligence on third-party agreements.
How accreditation support works
The earlier we start, the more time your team has to fix what the review turns up. If your visit is already close, I can join at any stage.
We compare your policies, files, and outcomes data against the standards and rank the gaps by risk.
I help your team write or strengthen the report, with each statement tied to evidence a reviewer can find.
We organize documents, sample student files, and prepare staff and leadership for team questions.
I help you answer any findings with corrective action and proof, then set up a calendar for the next cycle.
Experience
| Accreditation | Led institutional self-evaluations, site visits, and responses to findings, and prepared new-program approvals and annual reports. Volunteer team evaluator at peer institutions. |
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| State authorization | Managed filings and renewals, and led multistate reviews of authorization, physical presence, and distance-education requirements. |
| Veterans' education benefits | Secured institution and program approvals, supported on-site compliance visits, and served as School Certifying Official. |
| Regulatory responses | Led the response to a state enrollment hold, including catalog remediation, and helped the school regain its authority to enroll. |
| Leadership | Served as sole compliance officer and Director of Education, with responsibility for academic, student services, and compliance teams. |
About
Founder and Principal Consultant
I am a professional accreditation consultant with nearly ten years of experience in postsecondary education, and I know what accreditation asks of a small team. For more than four years I was the sole compliance officer at the Virtual Design and Construction Institute, an accredited online school, where I rose to Director of Education.
I also volunteer as an accreditation team evaluator, so I have read self-evaluations and evidence from the reviewer's side of the table as well as written them.
I founded Matulin Consulting in 2024 to give schools that same practical help: clear rules, realistic calendars, and steps your staff can carry out after I leave.
M.A., Organizational Leadership (Honors), Point Loma Nazarene University
B.A., Sociology and Asian American Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Volunteer accreditation team evaluator
Presenter at higher education and accreditation conferences
Enrollment operations and support to the President and Board of Trustees at Fielding Graduate University; President's Citation, 2019
Tell me your accreditor, your next deadline, and what concerns you most. I'll let you know whether and how I can help.