Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

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Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
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AbbreviationAACSB
Formation1916
Typenon-governmental organization
Purposeeducational accreditation
HeadquartersTampa, Florida, United States
Amsterdam
Singapore
Membership
approximately 900 institutions[1]:2
President, CEO
Caryn L. Beck-Dudley[2]
Chairman of the board
Linda Hadley[3]
Websiteaacsb.edu
Formerly called
  • American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business
  • International Association for Management Education
  • American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business[1]:2

The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International, is an American professional organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to schools of business,[1]:2 and was later known as the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business and as the International Association for Management Education.

Not all members of the association are accredited;[4]:92 it does not accredit for-profit schools.[5] In 2016 it was denied recognition by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation, and later withdrew from membership;[6] in 2019 it obtained ISO 9001 certification.[7]

It is one of the three component organizations of triple accreditation of business schools.[8]

History[]

The American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business was founded as an accrediting body in 1916 by a group of seventeen American universities and colleges.[1]:2[9][a] The first accreditations took place in 1919.[1]:2 For many years, the association accredited only American business schools, but in the latter part of the twentieth century adopted a more international approach to business education.[4] The first school it accredited outside the United States was the University of Alberta in 1968,[10] and the first outside North America was the French business school ESSEC, in 1997.[11][12] The present name of the association was adopted in 2001.[1]:2

In January 2015 the Council for Higher Education Accreditation deferred recognition of the association pending satisfaction of its policy requirements,[13] and in July its Committee on Recognition recommended that recognition be denied.[14] The association withdrew from the council in September 2016.[6][15] In 2019 it received ISO 9001 certification.[16]

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Notes[]

  1. ^ The founding institutions were Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, New York University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Tulane University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Yale University.[17]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f James W. Guthrie (editor) (2003). Encyclopedia of Education, volume 1: A-Commerce. New York: MacMillan Reference USA. ISBN 9780028655949.
  2. ^ "NewsCenter | SDSU | Student-Driven Enterprise Receives National Award". newscenter.sdsu.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  3. ^ "UNCG business school dean elected chair of international association". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b John Thanopoulos, Ivan R. Vernon (1987). International Business Education in the AACSB Schools. Journal of International Business Studies 18 (1): 91–98. (subscription required).
  5. ^ Brian Burnsed (March 15, 2011). "Top M.B.A. Programs Embrace Online Education". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on 30 April 2011. Retrieved March 30, 2011.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b Recognition Decision Summary: AACSB International The Association To Advance Collegiate Schools Of Business (AACSB). Council for Higher Education Accreditation, September 2016. Archived 18 October 2016.
  7. ^ "AACSB: 2020 Standards now released". QED. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  8. ^ "The Triple Accredited Business Schools (AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS)". www.mba.today. Retrieved 2021-06-01.
  9. ^ Morgan P. Miles, Geralyn McClure Franklin, Martin Grimmer, Kirl C. Heriot (2015). "An exploratory study of the perceptions of AACSB International's 2013 Accreditation Standards". Journal of International Education in Business. Emerald Insight. 8: 2–17. doi:10.1108/JIEB-02-2014-0009.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. ^ Erin Millar (March 15, 2011). "B-schools work hard to get the stamp of approval". The Globe and Mail.
  11. ^ "History". ESSEC Business School.
  12. ^ "ESSEC Business School". Poets & Quants. October 27, 2016.
  13. ^ "CHEA Board Meeting Minutes - Jan 2015 - Council for Higher Education Accreditation". www.chea.org.
  14. ^ "Council For Higher Education Accreditation Recognition Decision Summary: AACSB" (PDF).
  15. ^ "AACSB Pursues ISO Certification". 27 September 2016.
  16. ^ Gilbert, Dr. Doug. "ISO Alongside, Instead, or Inside? The potential of ISO 21001:2018 to change and challenge higher education accreditation". International Journal of Business and Applied Social Science. Volume-6, Issue -10: 50. |volume= has extra text (help)
  17. ^ AACSB - Who we are - timeline 1916-1936

Further reading[]

  • Andrea Everard, Jennifer Edmonds, Kent Pierre (2013). The Longitudinal Effects of the Mission – Driven Focus on the Credibility of the AACSB. Journal of Management Development 32 (9):995–1003
  • W. Francisco, T.G. Noland, D.Sinclari (2008). AACSB Accreditation: Symbol of Excellence or march toward Mediocrity. Journal of College Teaching & Learning 5 (5):25–30
  • Harold Hamilton (2000). AACSB Accreditation: Are the Benefits worth the Cost for a Small School? A Case Study. Proceedings of the American Society of Business and Behavioral Sciences Track Section of Management February 17–21, 2000, Las Vegas, Nevada: 205–206
  • Anthony Lowrie, Hugh Willmott (2009). Accreditation Sickness in the Consumption of Business Education: The Vacuum in AACSB Standard Setting. Management Learning 40 (4):411–420
  • N. Orwig, R.Z. Finney (2007). Analysis of the Mission Statements of AACSB – Accredited Schools. Competitiveness Review 17 (4):261–273
  • E.J Romero (2008). AACSB Accreditation: Addressing Faculty Concerns. Academy of Management Learning and Education 7 (2):245~255
  • J.A. Yunker (2000). Doing Things the Hard Way – Problems with Mission-Linked AACSB Accreditation Standards and Suggestions for Improvement. Journal of Education for Business 75 (6):348–353
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