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Requirements differ between regional and specialized accreditors?
Recently, I got into a conversation about the potentially conflicting requirements of specialized business accreditors and regional accreditors.
While AACSB describes the need to develop and measure SLOs for each "degree" within their definition of a program, I have been under the impression that our regional accreditor, HLC, considers every U/G major to be a program. If business schools with external accreditation only assess their degrees, will that trouble the regional accreditor and be contrary to their requirements?
What is your take on this in your regional?
Elizabeth Evans
Introducing the New Facilitator for the "Assessment Practioners within Accrediting Regions" CoP
We are very pleased to announce that the "Assessment within Accrediting Regions" has a new facilitator: Dr. Elizabeth Evans, of Concordia University-Wisconsin.
Dr. Evans works on assessment for six undergraduate majors and the non-traditional undergraduate general education core for the School of Business and Legal Studies at Concordia University Wisconsin. She serves as the Chair of the university academic Assessment Committee, and is currently the Co-Chair of the Comprehensive Self Study which will culminate in a Higher Learning Commission visit in the fall of 2012. She recently completed her PhD focused on adult and higher education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Her dissertation involved research with faculty who defined themselves as engaged in outcomes assessment.
Welcome to the new discussion boards!
For those of you who were members prior to the site rebuild, you'll see things are slightly different now. The landing page for each group is now intended as an administrator announcement area while general group discussion is now located in the group's forum. You may also be wondering what happened to the old content that was here. Our new software/setup isn't entirely compatible with the that of the old site's so we decided to make a fresh start and will be archiving the old posts. We aim to have those available to those interested very soon.
It's likely there will be some growing pains for a short time while we get used to the new site (it's foolish to think otherwise), so feel free to contact me if you run into any problems.
