Musings on the Future of Accreditation

Autor/in	Crow, Steven
Titel	Musings on the Future of Accreditation
Quelle	In: New Directions for Higher Education, (2009) 145, S.87-97 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0271-0560
DOI	10.1002/he.338
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Higher Education; Accreditation (Institutions); Change Strategies; Organizational Change; Trend Analysis; Accountability; Benchmarking; Institutional Characteristics; Institutional Evaluation; Institutional Research; National Standards; State Standards; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Accreditation; Institution; Institutions; Akkreditierung; Staatliche Anerkennung; Institut; Lösungsstrategie; Organisationswandel; Trendanalyse; Verantwortung; Institutionelle Forschung; USA
Abstract	In this chapter, the author contemplates the future of accreditation in the changing landscape of higher education in the United States. He presents a set of proposals for how accreditation can regain the confidence of college leaders and public policymakers. He begins with the assumption that changes in accreditation--some significant in their impact--are warranted. Since regional institutional accrediting commissions need to coordinate their voices and activities such that they have strong backing and support in asserting their influence in the making of higher education public policy, the author suggests five keys to success. These include: (1) give constant attention to the relevance of accreditation processes and standards; (2) show that accreditors have a reasonable sense of when good enough is good enough; (3) validate anew the legitimacy of peer review; (4) test long-held conceptions about accreditation; and (5) experiment with partnering and collaborating. The author proposes that accreditation is and can continue to be as constructive a force in U.S. higher education as the leaders of accrediting agencies wish to make it. Thus, he concludes with the last proposal: lead. He argues that to be effective in the future, regional accreditation must be ready to pool resources, talents, and its collective learning to ensure that it is always ahead, and being there is actually shaping the environment in which U.S. higher education will both flourish and meet expectations of the society it serves. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10