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Webinar Title: "Creating an
Integrated Accreditation Maintenance Culture at your Educational
Institution"
Date and Time: Monday, November 29, 2010, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm
Eastern Time
Presenter: Dr. Alireza Lari, CQM, CQA
Description:
All
degree-granting academic institutions must be accredited by one of the
accreditation bodies. The Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA)
and the United States Department of Education (USDE) “accredit the
accreditors,” examining and giving accreditors a seal of approval or
good rating. Only accreditors that have passed this test can evaluate
and accredit the academic institutions. The CHEA database lists more
than 7,700 degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions and
more than 18,700 programs that are accredited by United States
accrediting organizations that have been recognized either by CHEA or
by USDE or both. In addition, some programmatic accreditors also
review free-standing, single purpose institutions in their respective
fields.
Regardless of who has accredited the institutions, there are certain
criteria that should be followed for initial accreditation and later
for periodical surveillance audits. Most of the institutions do not
have a permanent structure for dealing with issues required for
accreditation. Therefore, maintaining the accreditation becomes a
nightmare and creates a lot of pressure in the organization when they
get close to the accreditation audit time. This Webinar explains the
issues related to the maintenance of the accreditation and provides
some solutions to making maintenance and continuous improvement an
organizational culture.
Learning Outcomes:
As a
result of participating in this webinar, you should be able to:
1.
Recognize various accreditation organizations;
2.
Identify the major common criteria among accreditation programs;
3.
Describe the processes related to accreditation criteria;
4.
Construct a formal structure for regular business process reviews that
enables systematic evaluations and improvements of core processes that
lead to ideal quality, speed, service and cost in support of student
success - a key function in maintaining accreditations; and
5.
Provide guidance and direction to administrative departments on how to
best revise business processes to better align with established
policies so that improved institutional effectiveness is achieved.
Presenter's Profile:
Dr.
Alireza Lari is the President of AmHighEd. He has more than 20 years
of teaching experience at different universities. He has published
three books and more than 50 articles in different refereed journals
and proceedings of national and international conferences. He has held
university administrative positions of Associate Dean for R&D,
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and Chairperson of the Departments
of Management and Systems. He carries several years of industrial
experience. He is an international consultant in the areas of
reengineering and change management, process management and design of
total quality systems. He led several projects of technology transfer,
total quality systems, integrated information systems, and process
improvement. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Manager and Certified
Quality Auditor. He has served as a Member of 2008 and 2010 Board of
Examiners of Malcolm Baldrige Award, and annual reviewer and systems
appraiser for The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central
Association of Colleges and Schools- Academic Quality Improvement
Program (AQIP) since January 2007.
Fee: $180.00
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