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The NAAB Accreditation Review Conference - The Importance of Your Input William C. Miller, FAIA

Does architectural education change fast enough or significantly enough?. The NAAB Accreditation Review Conference - The Importance of Your Input William C. Miller, FAIA Michiel Bourdrez, AIA. NAAB Overview.

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The NAAB Accreditation Review Conference - The Importance of Your Input William C. Miller, FAIA

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  1. Does architectural education change fast enough or significantly enough? The NAAB Accreditation Review Conference - The Importance of Your Input William C. Miller, FAIA Michiel Bourdrez, AIA

  2. NAAB Overview The NAAB is the agency recognized by registration boards in the United States to accredit professional degree programs in architecture. The NAAB is composed of representatives from: ACSA, AIA, AIAS NCARB, and the public. The NAAB accredits three degree programs: B.Arch., M.Arch., and D.Arch. The NAAB conditions and student performance criteria apply equally to all three degrees.

  3. Architecture School Curricula • General Education • Professional Education • Architectural Design • Building Technology Structures Environmental Control Systems Building Materials & Assemblies • History & Theory • Professional Practice

  4. Expectations of Program Diversity

  5. NAAB Conditions for Accreditation 1 Five NAAB Perspectives Architectural Education and the Academic Context Architectural Education and the Students Architectural Education and Registration Architectural Education and the Profession Architectural Education and Society • Program Self-Assessment Procedures 3 Public Information 4 Social Equity 5 Studio Culture 6 Human Resources 7 Human Resource Development 8 Physical Resources 9 Information Resources 10 Financial Resources 11 Administrative Structure 12 Professional Degrees and Curriculum 13 Student Performance Criteria • Financial Resources • Administrative Structure

  6. SPC 1 Speaking / Writing Skills SPC 2 Critical Thinking Skills SPC 3 Graphics Skills SPC 4 Research Skills SPC 5 Formal Ordering Systems SPC 6 Fundamental Design Skills SPC 7 Collaborative Skills SPC 8 Western Traditions SPC 9 Non-Western Traditions SPC 10 National and Regional Traditions SPC 11 Use of Precedents SPC 12 Human Behavior SPC 13 Human Diversity SPC 14 Accessibility SPC 15 Sustainable Design SPC 16 Program Preparation SPC 17 Site Conditions SPC 18 Structural Systems SPC 19 Environmental Systems SPC 20 Life Safety SPC 21 Building Envelope Systems SPC 22 Building Service System SPC 23 Building Systems Integration SPC 24 Building Materials and Assemblies SPC 25 Construction Cost Control SPC 26 Technical Documentation SPC 27 Client Role in Architecture SPC 28 Comprehensive Design SPC 29 Architect’s Administrative Roles SPC 30 Architectural Practice SPC 31 Professional Development SPC 32 Leadership SPC 33 Legal Responsibilities SPC 34 Ethics and Professional Judgment NAAB Student Performance Criteria Student Performance Criteria (SPC) are met by required courses, not electives. The criteria encompass two levels of accomplishment: Understanding—means the assimilation and comprehension of information without necessarily being able to see its full implication. Ability—means the skill in using specific information to accomplish a task, in correctly selecting the appropriate information, and in applying it to the solution of a specific problem..…”

  7. Well Organized Team Room: Texas Tech

  8. What is the Accreditation Review Conference (ARC)? • A conference occurring every five years – NAAB undergoes a review of its organization and evaluative practices in order to assure a responsive and informed assessment of programs. • An important venue for discussing current issues affecting the future of architectural education (and the profession). • A discussion that creates recommendations for improving the effectiveness of NAAB in pursuing its mission. • A culmination of the visions of the collateral organizations based on their research and collaborative discussions. • This ARC will take a step in a new direction, and involve collaborative work between the collateral organizations, as well as the development of white papers by each organization.

  9. The ARC Task Force has identified seven • trends that will influence the future of • accreditation, education, internship, practice, • regulation, and society: • International/Global Trends and Drivers of Change • Trends in the Professions • Trends in Education • Trends in Accreditation • Trends in Regulation • Emerging Accreditation Models • Evolution of the Student Performance Criteria (SPC’s)

  10. The ARC is important because? • Changes to the documents for accreditation: Conditions and Procedures • Changes to the Student Performance Criteria (SPC) • Often initiated by input from the collateral organizations

  11. NCARBIssues for the ARC Conditions: NAAB Perspectives Architectural Education and Registration The accredited degree program must demonstrate that it provides students with a sound preparation for the transition to internship and licensure. The school may choose to explain in the APR the accredited degree program’s relationship with the state registration boards, the exposure of students to internship requirements including knowledge of the national Intern Development Program (IDP) and continuing education beyond graduation, the students’ understanding of their responsibility for professional conduct, and the proportion of graduates who have sought and achieved licensure since the previous visit.

  12. NCARB Issues for the ARC Student Performance Criteria (SPC) 14. Accessibility 16. Program Preparation 20. Life Safety 22. Building Service Systems 23. Building Systems Integration 28. Comprehensive Design 31. Professional Development 33. Legal Responsibilities 34. Ethics and Professional Judgment

  13. Important Dates: Feb. 2007 ARC Task Force Appointed Defines role, work plan, dates March 2007 Collaterals identify resource people Collaterals and ARC Task Force groups work on white papers Oct. 2007 NCARB Education Committee works on white paper Feb. 2008 (?) NCARB Education Committee finalizes white paper for BOD Feb. 2008 White papers to NAAB May 2008 Review of and comments on white papers by collaterals Oct. 2008 ARC Feb. 2009 Draft accreditation documents to collaterals Aug. 2009 NAAB approves new documents Sept. 2010 First program APR’s due under new documents Feb. 2011 First accreditation visits under new documents

  14. How to Provide Input • For background material on the NAAB: www.naab.org (The ARC, the Conditions and Procedures, and NAAB Surveys) • To provide the Education Committee with comments and input: miller@arch.utah.edu

  15. Questions?

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