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Author: Harland G. Bloland Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 272
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Accreditation at our nation's institutions of higher education has undergone dramatic changes in the past decade. Harland G. Bloland was an insider during the establishment of a new organization, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). This book chronicles his unique experiences with the players, processes, and history involved in CHEA's creation. Harland G. Bloland, in this new title from the American Council on Education (ACE)/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education, chronicles his rare, insider experiences with the players, processes, and history involved in creating the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Bloland was present at the meetings of the National Policy Board and the Presidents Work Group as they set the parameters for the creation of CHEA, the crucial entity that recognizes accrediting agencies for colleges and universities across the United States. Reviewing the past accrediting oversight of FRACHE, NCA, COPA, and CORPA, and then following the progress of CHEA through its first year and attending its board meetings, Bloland has constructed a unique, complete history of the accrediting process. Institution and organization creation theory, borrowed from the field of sociology, provided the basis for his research. His analysis concerning the obstacles and possibilities confronted by a new organization helps to characterize CHEA and previous accrediting organizations, and to answer the following questions: BL What is accreditation and why is it important? BL What is the social and political context within which CHEA was developed? BL What occurred in the process of creating CHEA? BL What roles do accreditation and CHEA play in American higher education? BL What were the issues that CHEA and accreditation faced in its infancy? BL What is the current state of CHEA and accreditation?
Author: Harland G. Bloland Publisher: Greenwood ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 272
Book Description
Accreditation at our nation's institutions of higher education has undergone dramatic changes in the past decade. Harland G. Bloland was an insider during the establishment of a new organization, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). This book chronicles his unique experiences with the players, processes, and history involved in CHEA's creation. Harland G. Bloland, in this new title from the American Council on Education (ACE)/Oryx Press Series on Higher Education, chronicles his rare, insider experiences with the players, processes, and history involved in creating the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). Bloland was present at the meetings of the National Policy Board and the Presidents Work Group as they set the parameters for the creation of CHEA, the crucial entity that recognizes accrediting agencies for colleges and universities across the United States. Reviewing the past accrediting oversight of FRACHE, NCA, COPA, and CORPA, and then following the progress of CHEA through its first year and attending its board meetings, Bloland has constructed a unique, complete history of the accrediting process. Institution and organization creation theory, borrowed from the field of sociology, provided the basis for his research. His analysis concerning the obstacles and possibilities confronted by a new organization helps to characterize CHEA and previous accrediting organizations, and to answer the following questions: BL What is accreditation and why is it important? BL What is the social and political context within which CHEA was developed? BL What occurred in the process of creating CHEA? BL What roles do accreditation and CHEA play in American higher education? BL What were the issues that CHEA and accreditation faced in its infancy? BL What is the current state of CHEA and accreditation?
Author: Council for Higher Education Accreditation, Washington, DC. Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 24
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Thirty distinguished college and university presidents and chancellors shared their perceptions of institutional and programmatic accreditation in a series of interviews conducted by Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) during Spring 2005. The presidents commented on their knowledge of and involvement in accreditation, accreditation's value to institutions and accreditation's value to society. This report presents results of a data-gathering effort undertaken by the CHEA Presidents Project, an initiative focused on building presidential investment and interest in accreditation as a public policy issue. CHEA initiated this project as a result of the growing perception of its board and key member presidents that many college and university leaders tend to think of accreditation principally as a process that their institutions have to undergo, rather than as an important defining element in the policy relationship between the higher education enterprise and society. Accreditation in the United States is unique in the world as an approach to institutional development and quality assurance because it remains essentially institutionally owned and governed. CHEA believes that accreditation has reached an important place in its long and effective history--a point that requires both accreditation's and higher education's leaders to take stock of the enterprise and its role in public policy for higher education. Because of this overall commitment to building presidential engagement and investment, CHEA is vitally interested in presidential opinions about accreditation. The results of the interviews as presented in this report were designed to bring the voices of sitting presidents to conversations about the public policy role of accreditation. Results of this investigation suggest the following conclusions: (1) The nation's higher education leadership believes strongly in the purposes of accreditation and, despite the sometimes considerable costs that the process entails for institutions, supports it as the premier mechanism for assuring academic quality in the nation; (2) Presidents recognize that the benefits of accreditation to institutions are, in an important sense, up to them; (3) Despite their strong support for the process, presidents believe that there are some things that accreditors can improve; (4) Despite recent calls for it, presidents remain wary of increased public disclosure of the results of accreditation reviews; and (5) Presidents are concerned that the accreditation process is not well understood by the public and by constituents to whom it is supposed to assure quality. These views, rounded out by additional presidential opinions gathered on an ongoing basis, can help CHEA craft a more effective strategy for building public support for accreditation as the keystone in this nation's approach to assuring the quality of higher education. The following are appended: (1) Interview Protocol; (2) Interview Participants; (3) Interview Discussion Topics; (4) Accreditation and Presidential Leadership Roundtable; and (5) Accreditation and Presidential Leadership Roundtable Participants.
Author: Michaela Martin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 122
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External quality assurance (EQA) has become an important item on the policy agendas of higher education systems across the world. This publication discusses the different options available. This publication can be used for identifying issues and concerns of policy-makers in the area of quality assurance.--Publisher's description.
Author: Institute of Medicine Publisher: National Academies Press ISBN: 0309166616 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 429
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The United States is rapidly transforming into one of the most racially and ethnically diverse nations in the world. Groups commonly referred to as minorities-including Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska Natives-are the fastest growing segments of the population and emerging as the nation's majority. Despite the rapid growth of racial and ethnic minority groups, their representation among the nation's health professionals has grown only modestly in the past 25 years. This alarming disparity has prompted the recent creation of initiatives to increase diversity in health professions. In the Nation's Compelling Interest considers the benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity, and identifies institutional and policy-level mechanisms to garner broad support among health professions leaders, community members, and other key stakeholders to implement these strategies. Assessing the potential benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity among health professionals will improve the access to and quality of healthcare for all Americans.
Author: Paul L. Gaston Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000976971 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 264
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Is the accreditation system “broken” as claimed by successive Secretaries of Education and some recent reports? This book addresses this question head-on, asking whether accreditation is indeed in need of radical reform, and whether the agencies’ authority should be curtailed; or whether in fact the changes now underway – that accrediting agencies contend ensure rigorous and consistent standards and degrees that are a reliable gauge of student attainment – are moving the academy and the nation in the right direction. In a sweeping and ambitious book, Paul Gaston deploys his knowledge and experience as a peer reviewer for three regional accrediting agencies, a former board member and chair of the Association of Specialized and Professional Accreditors, and his involvement in the early stages of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, to go beyond the polemics to explore whether a strategy that builds on the emerging values and good practices can achieve the substantive and positive improvements the public is demanding.As an introduction for readers new to the debate, he provides a brief overview of the development of accreditation, its terminology, and structure, describing how it currently works, and what it has achieved; and offers insight into the proliferation of the missions of accreditation – as well as the multiplicity of stakeholders with an interest in its outcomes – to question whether the mandate of accreditation should, as some contend, be expanded, or particular missions reassigned or abandoned. This established, he undertakes a dispassionate analysis of the arguments and recommendations of critics and supporters of the current direction of accreditation to identify common ground and explore constructive ways forward, paying specific attention to current and potential reforms of the three sectors of higher education accreditation: the seven regional accrediting associations, the national accreditors, and programmatic, or “specialized” accreditation. The book concludes by outlining a comprehensive approach to reform. His proposal would preserve practices that already work well while advancing important changes that can be incrementally implemented. The result would be a higher education accreditation structure more cost effective, more efficient, more transparent and accountable, and more responsive to institutional and public needs.
Author: Peter T. Ewell Publisher: ISBN: Category : Academic achievement Languages : en Pages : 218
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A brief history of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation -- Preface -- The challenge of quality to higher education in the decade to come -- About accreditation -- The co-evolution of accreditation and higher education in America -- Accreditation and the academy -- Self-governance in the United States -- Accreditation and government -- CHEA recognition of accrediting organizations -- Taking stock of accreditation -- Into the future. -- Appendix A. Accreditation and the courts -- Appendix B. CHEA Tenth Anniversary Commission -- Appendix C. CHEA Board of Directors -- Glossary of Acronyms.
Author: Allen Ezell Publisher: American Association of Collegiate Registrars & Admissions Officers(AACRAO) ISBN: Category : Diploma mills Languages : en Pages : 228
Author: Judith S. Eaton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 12
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This publication provides a general description of the key features of U.S. accreditation of higher education and recognition of accrediting organizations. Accreditation in the United States is about quality assurance and quality improvement. It is a process to scrutinize higher education institutions and programs. Accreditation is private (nongovernmental) and nonprofit--an outgrowth of the higher education community and not of government. It is funded primarily by the institutions and programs that are accredited. Accreditation has a complex relationship with government, especially in relation to funding higher education. It adds value to society through assuring quality, enabling government to make sound judgments about the use of public funds, aiding the private sector in decisions about financial support and easing transfer of credit. Recognition in the United States is about scrutiny of the quality and effectiveness of accrediting organizations. It is carried out by the higher education enterprise through the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA), a private body, and by the United States Department of Education (USDE). CHEA recognition is funded by institutional dues; USDE recognition is funded by the U.S. Congress. The goals of the two recognition processes are different: (1) CHEA: Assuring that accrediting organizations contribute to maintaining and improving academic quality; and (2) USDE: Assuring that accrediting organizations contribute to maintaining the soundness of institutions and programs that receive federal funds. The two recognition processes are similar: self-evaluation based on standards, site visit and report, award of recognition status. Recognition adds value to society as a vital part of accreditation accountability or "accrediting the accreditors." [For the 2012 edition, see ED544355.].
Author: Harland G. Bloland
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Author: Council for Higher Education Accreditation, Washington, DC.
Author: Michaela Martin
Author: Institute of Medicine
Author: Paul L. Gaston
Author: Council for Higher Education Accreditation (U.S.)
Author: Peter T. Ewell
Author: Allen Ezell
Author: Judith S. Eaton