Shaping th e Future of Management Education Through Accreditation

1. Shaping the Future of Management Education Through Accreditation • Exposure Draft Standards

2. Blue Ribbon Committee Diverse and Experienced: • More than 285 years of collective accreditation experience • Nearly all members have been on a major accreditation committee • Management education experience on 6 continents • Business experience in a variety of fields and levels • Representatives from different types of schools Sub-Committee on Executive Education Task Force on Distance/Online Education Thought Leadership Task Forces

3. BRC Input Process

4. The Standards… • Reduces number of standards from 21 to 15 • Each is more relevant and less redundant • All are holistically and equally important

5. What’s Changed… • Strengthens the long-standing commitments of AACSB • Mission Focus, Judgment and Scholarship • Adds flexibility to eligibility criteria, broadens faculty qualifications, and emphasizes engagement • Addresses executive education, social responsibility and sustainability, and distance education

6. Recognizing high-quality and continuous improvement through: • Drives a holistic look at business schools in an environment that demands accountability

7. Strategic Management and Innovation • Standards 1 – 3:

8. 1 Mission, Impact, and Innovation standard Deepening our understanding of mission Strategic Management and Innovation

9. 2 Intellectual Contributions and Alignment with Mission standard Beyond counting: valuing the impact and quality of scholarship Strategic Management and Innovation

10. 3 Financial Strategies and Allocation of Resources standard Financial strategies to sustain quality and innovation Strategic Management and Innovation

11. Participants: Students, Faculty, and Professional Staff • Standards 4 – 7:

12. 4 Student Admissions, Progression, and Career Development standard Supporting student academic and professional success Participants: Students, Faculty, and Professional Staff

13. 5 Faculty Sufficiency and Deployment standard Ensuring an appropriate level of engaged faculty Participants: Students, Faculty, and Professional Staff

14. 6 Faculty Management and Support standard Enabling the development of highly effective faculty Participants: Students, Faculty, and Professional Staff

15. 7 Professional Staff Sufficiency and Deployment standard Recognizing the increasing importance of professional staff Participants: Students, Faculty, and Professional Staff

16. Learning and Teaching • Standards 8 – 12:

17. 8 Curricula Management and Assurance of Learning standard Giving context to Assurance of Learning Learning and Teaching

18. 9 Curriculum Content standard Fostering innovation with flexible guidance and clarified expectations Learning and Teaching

19. Student Faculty Interactions standard 10 Articulating a central expectation across teaching/learning models Learning and Teaching

20. Degree Program Educational Level and Equivalence standard 11 Protecting the integrity of accredited degree programs Learning and Teaching

21. Teaching Effectiveness standard 12 Developing teaching skills in a changing environment Learning and Teaching

22. Academic and Professional Engagement • Standards 13 – 15:

23. Student Academic and Professional Engagement standard 13 Fostering student involvement in both academic and experiential learning Academic and Professional Engagement

24. Executive Education standard 14 Recognizing the growing importance and benefits of executive education Academic and Professional Engagement

25. Faculty Qualifications and Academic and Professional Engagement standard 15 Elevating scholarship and developing intersections between theory and practice Academic and Professional Engagement

26. RA + AA + SP + TP ≥ 90 percent RA + AA + SP ≥ 60 percent RA ≥ 40 percent

27. Eligibility Criteria Setting and framing the foundation for review. Criteria 1: Accreditation Scope and AACSB Membership Criteria 2: Oversight, Sustainability, and Continuous Improvement Criteria 3: Policy on Continued Adherence to Standards and Integrity of Submissions to AACSB Demonstrating commitment to core values. Criteria 4: Collegiate Setting Criteria 5: Commitment to Diversity Criteria 6: Ethical Behavior and Sustainability

28. New Standards Snapshot

29. Moving Forward Continuing engagement of members through: • Peer-to-peer discussion • BizEdissue on “Future of Accreditation” • eNEWSLINEseries of articles • Targeted focus groups • Ongoing BRC communications program Upcoming opportunities for member engagement: • Annual Accreditation Conference • Asia Pacific Annual Conference • Europe Annual Conference • Associate Deans Conference • Regional Deans Meetings • Deans Conference

30. Next Steps yourideasnow the BRC process with members in support of new standards Send specific copy edits and notes to Dan LeClair Share Support Advocate

31. Thank You! Now we need your support for the new standards!