Non-acceptance of the annual report due to inadequacy of information provided or a determination that evidence of acceptable progress toward completion of the accreditation plan and accreditation is not apparent. In such cases, the Committee will outline its concerns and will request a supplemental report to be considered at its next meeting. Rejection of the annual report with a decision to remove the school from candidacy. This option would follow a prior warning that acceptable progress has not been made with specific concerns to be addressed. Failure to attach a copy of the action plan time frame originally submitted with the accreditation plan.
Annual report reflects milestones without citing continuous improvement processes.
This close working relationship, accomplished through the use of ex officio committee membership, is important so that precandidacy advisors, precandidacy schools, and candidacy schools have access to how the standards are being applied, interpreted, and the subsequent impact of the standards on business and accounting education. This feedback should allow schools to successfully develop and implement accreditation plans and avoid many of the pitfalls that could be encountered without close consultation of the BAC, AAC, and Candidacy Committee. The major difficulty for schools still seems to be around the alignment of mission and processes, especially in the disconnect between the teaching part of business school missions and faculty development and intellectual processes. The BAC has seen greater variety in the types of schools and their missions, as should be the case with mission-driven standards. Few schools have well-developed outcome measures, although the BAC agrees that this increasingly will be the standard to which schools will be held.