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"Provides American colleges and universities with clear guidance on how to satisfy the expectations of regional accreditors, and helps colleges or universities that are not seeking accreditation to identify ways to improve institutional quality and demonstrate that quality to constituents"--
List of contents
LIST OF TABLES AND EXHIBITS ix
LIST OF JARGON ALERTS xi
LIST OF ACRONYMS xv
FOREWORD xix
PREFACE xxv
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xxxi
ABOUT THE AUTHOR xxxiii
INTRODUCTION:
Today's Quality Context 1
1. Why Is American Higher Education Under Fire? 3
2. Understanding American Accreditation 11
3. Quality: Committing to Excellence 25
4. Why Is This So Hard? 35
DIMENSION I:
A Culture of Relevance 49
5. Integrity: Doing the Right Thing 51
6. Stewardship: Ensuring and Deploying Resources
Responsibly 59
DIMENSION II:
A Culture of Community 75
7. A Community of People 77
8. Leadership Capacity and Commitment 89
DIMENSION III:
A Culture of Focus and Aspiration 97
9. Purpose: Who Are You? Why Do You Exist? 99
10. Goals and Plans: Where Are You Going? How Will You Get There? 107
11. Who Is a Successful Student? 119
12. Helping Students Learn and Succeed 129
DIMENSION IV:
A Culture of Evidence 145
13. Gauging Success 147
14. Good Evidence Is Useful 161
15. Setting and Justifying Targets for Success 167
16. Transparency: Sharing Evidence Clearly and Readily 177
DIMENSION V:
A Culture of Betterment 189
17. Using Evidence to Ensure and Advance Quality and Effectiveness 191
18. Sustaining a Culture of Betterment 197
CONCLUSION:
Integrating and Advancing the Five Dimensions of Quality 209
19. Demonstrating Quality to Accreditors 211
20. Program Reviews: Drilling Down into Programs and Services 229
21. Where Do We Go from Here? A Six-Point Agenda for Ensuring and Advancing Quality 239
REFERENCES 249
INDEX 265
About the author
LINDA SUSKIE is a bestselling author, speaker, trainer, and consultant on assessment and accreditation in higher education. She has served as vice president of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, associate vice president for assessment and institutional research at Towson University, and director of the Assessment Forum of the American Association for Higher Education. She is the author of
Assessing Student Learning from Jossey-Bass.
Summary
Meet calls for increased quality and understand accreditation expectations Author Linda Suskie is internationally recognized for her work in higher education assessment, and she is a former vice president of a major regional accreditor.
