Access to Accreditation

Mohammad Tohidul Islam Miya

Introduction
Accreditation

Council for Business Schools &

Programs (ACBSP) Specialized
Accreditation for Program Level

Outline
Topic

1: Accreditation Process
Topic 2: Standards and Criteria
Topic 3: Time & Cost
Topic 4: Case Studies

Topic 1: Accreditation Process

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Eligibility
Application
Candidacy
Self study
Evaluation Team Site Visit
Action by Board Commissioners

Topic 2: Standards
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Leadership
Strategic Planning
Student and Stakeholder Focus
Measurement and Analysis of SLOA
Faculty and Staff Focus
Edu. and Bus. Process Management

Standard 1 - Leadership
As is the case with the Baldrige criteria,
ACBSPs Standards begin with Leadership
Standard 1s criteria include:

Leaderships accountability for program and

process development, execution, and continuous
improvement
Leaderships role in ensuring compliance with
ACBSPs Standards and Criteria
Leaderships role with regard to ethics and social
responsibility

Standard 2 Strategic
Planning
Standard

2s criteria include:

A requirement for a formal strategic planning

process
Faculty and staff should have significant input into
the strategic planning process
Strategic plans must include key objectives and
timeframes and address both long- and shortterm objectives
Plans should have performance measures and
communications to all stakeholders

Standard 3 Student and

Stakeholder Focus
Standard

3s criteria include:

Identification of the institutions target student

segment(s)
Identification of all major stakeholders, and
methods to listen and learn their requirements
and expectations
A process for using the information learned from
stakeholders
A system for determining student and key
stakeholder satisfaction and dissatisfaction

Standard 4 Measurement and Analysis

of Student Learning and Performance
Standard

4s criteria are at the heart of

ACBSPs focus upon continuous improvement
Its criteria include:

A requirement to have a learning outcomes

assessment process
At least three successive sets of periodic
assessment results to show trends
A description of specific improvements made on
the basis of learning outcomes assessments

Standard 5 Faculty and Staff

Focus
Standard

5 is extremely data intense, and is thus

the Standard that we are requesting your
assistance in demonstrating our compliance
Standard 5s criteria include:

HR Planning and employment practices

Faculty qualifications, workload, and coverage,
including a CV for every one of our 150+ PT faculty!
Faculty evaluation for retention, promotion, etc.
Faculty development, scholarly and professional
activities

Standard 6 Educational and

Business Process
Standard

6s criteria are designed to

determine how well an institutions degree
programs meet the Common Professional
Component, or CPC, that all higher
education business programs should
address, and include:

Educational design, delivery, and evaluation

Course syllabi for every course in all of our
business programs!

Qualitative Scoring Bands . . .

As in the Baldrige process, each of the six

Standards is assessed from eight perspectives:

Approach Goal of effective, systematic approach fully

responsive to the standards
Deployment Fully deployed without significant
weaknesses or gaps
Learning Fact-based, systematic evaluation and
improvement and organizational learning
Integration Well integrated with organizational needs
and the other Standards

Qualitative Scoring Bands,

Continued . . .

Levels Current performance is excellent in most

areas of importance to the Standard
Trends Excellent improvement trends and/or
sustained excellent performance levels
Comparisons Evidence of industry and
benchmark leadership is demonstrated
Linkages Results fully address key customer,
market, process, and action plan requirements

Qualitative Scoring Bands,

Concluded . . .
Each

of the eight perspectives are assessed

on a six-level continuum:

Best in Class
Very Good to Excellent
Very Good
Good
Improvements Needed
Major Improvements Needed

Time & Costs

Time:

18 months 24 months (<60 months)

Costs- $15000 - $20000. (Excluding costs of
Correspondence & Participation)

Case Study
NSU
NWOSU

NSU:Summer 2014 Fall 2015

BEFORE SUMMER 2014

MEMBERSHIP

SUMMER 2014

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

AFTER SUMMER 2014

APPLICATION FOR ACCREDITATION

NOV. 2014

PRELIMINARY VISIT

JAN 2015 SEPTEMBER 2015

MENTORING & SELF STUDY

OCTOBER 2015

3 MEMBER REVIEW TEAM

DECEMBER 2015

ACCREDITATION

Key Persons
DR.

MAHBUB RAHMAN (Dean, SBE,NSU)

Four Co-Champions
Three Advisory Bodies:

Student
Alumni
Business

Fifty

faculty members supporting the process.

Efficient project management

External Resource Persons

Douglas

Viehland, ACBSP E.D.

Dr Alok Saklani , Apeejay School of
Management, New Delhi
Dr S. Zarar from ICBM School of Business
Excellence
Prof. J. Kavita from ICBM (MENTOR)
Peer Review team:

Dr. Douglas Gilbert , USA

Dr. Dolgormaa Jamiyan, Mongolia
Prof. Umesh Chandrasekhar, India.

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