Accreditation
Subtitle: assuring and enhancing quality
By: Patricia M. O'Brien, editor
Series: New directions for higher education -- no. 145
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 100
Subjects: Higher Education; Evaluation; Educational accountability; Accreditation (Education); Quality assurance; Education
Description: This volume offers insight into U.S. accreditation--its history, values, advantages, benefits, and challenges--and in so doing respond to recent critiques. They remind us that it is imperative for accrediting commissions and institutions to take steps to address the legitimate concerns raised about the ability of accreditation to function effectively and efficiently and to meet the needs not only of institutions, but of prospective students and their families, and they outline suggestions for how this might be done.
Notes: "Spring 2009."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Editor's notes  -- Patricia M. O'Brien; title: Accreditation in the United States : how did we get to where we are?  -- Barbara Brittingham; title: Accreditation's benefits for individuals and institutions  -- Patricia A. McGuire; title: A college president's defense on accreditation  -- Robert A. Oden; title: The impact of the changing climate for accreditation on the individual college or university : five trends and their implications  -- John W. Bardo; title: An accreditation dilemma : the tension between program accountability and program improvement in programmatic accreditation / Frank B. Murray --; title: Accreditation systems in Japan and the United States  -- Rie Mori; title: Accreditation in the United States  -- Judith S. Eaton; title: Musings on the future of accreditation -- Steven Crow.