UNO (the -other-, above water UNO) CBA has held AACSB BSBA and MBA
accreditation for a couple of decades.  We are in the process of seeking
separate Accounting accreditation.  Faculty support for AACSB has ranged
over the years between 90-10 and 80-20 depending on committee work that
year.  The recent revision of AACSB Standards (see links on my home page)
that switched from check list accreditation (e.g., no more than 50% of
degree credit hours within CBA) to Mission driven accreditation (e.g.,
local definition of an Intellectual Contribution) has significantly eroded
faculty support.  Today, AACSB Mission driven accreditation requires far
more faculty committee work.  Local support now ranges between 55-45 and
70-30.

      AACSB always has been a Deans' Club at its heart.  However, the
switch to Mission driven requires substantial faculty involvement in the
Mission definition and implementation.  In a Mission driven environment, an
attentive faculty who actively oppose AACSB accreditation can scuttle any
and all efforts by a diligent administration.  This was not true with check
list accreditation.

      One loss with the switch from check list to Mission driven is the
welcoming attitude of AACSB to receiving more cash from more members.  At
UNO CBA the local support is sure to be no more than 30-70 if a specific
local competitor is able to earn accreditation.

      AACSB Standards do -not- require 90% of the faculty to be AQ (i.e.,
Academically Qualified).  That is a gross misreading of the Standards
(something I would expect from either an incompetent Dean or a lying Dean).
AACSB does require 90% of the faculty to be either AQ --or-- PQ (i.e.,
Professionally Qualified).  However, AACSB will allow the AQ+PQ percentage
to be as low as 50% in a given segment of a degree (see second bullet from
bottom on PDF page 37 of 79).  Clearly, AACSB anticipates a far from
trivial number of PQ faculty.  Expressly, AACSB allows AQ to be as low as
50% (see second bullet from top on PDF page 42 of 79).  At Ph.D. granting
schools the percent of AQ is expected to be higher than at BSBA only
schools, but no fixed percentage is set by AACSB because accreditation is
Mission driven (see footnotes to "TABLE IIA. CALCULATIONS RELATIVE TO
DEPLOYMENT OF QUALIFIED FACULTY
(RE: Standard 10)" on PDF page 51 of 79).

      Note that 0% (zero percent is not a typo) of faculty holding a
doctorate (e.g., J.D.) that is more than 5 years old are AQ based -solely-
on that doctorate.  AACSB uses a rolling five year qualification of AQ and
of PQ.  Each faculty member must earn and must maintain on a rolling five
year clock AQ, PQ, or both AQ and PQ.

      Each school, based on its Mission, picks a definition of AQ and picks
a definition of PQ.  A school --could-- pick a definition of AQ and a
corresponding definition of IC (i.e., Intellectual Contribution) that
required 2 refereed journal articles and 3 presentations within five years;
but, AACSB Standards do not do that.  (For well over a decade, UNO CBA has
used 2 refereed journal articles per five years as the basis for assigned
time to Research of 3 of the 12 credit hours of assigned time per semester.
By default [rather than any real analysis] we adopted that as our
definition of AQ.)  AACSB abuses the phrase "Mission Statement" and
includes within the sweep of that phrase all relevant documents to
implementing the Mission of the school.  Accordingly, per Standard 11 all
of your school's RP&T documents must harmonize with your school's
definition of AQ and of PQ.  When doing so, do not forget to continually
remind your Dean of the requirements of Standard 5 (i.e., 5.  The school
has financial strategies to provide resources appropriate to, and
sufficient
for, achieving its mission and action items. [FINANCIAL STRATEGIES]).

      Some governance documents (i.e., parts of the school's "Mission
Statement") require, per your local institution, faculty assent.  Some
AACSB accreditation action require faculty participation and assent.  Learn
where these fulcrum points are within your institution.  If you desire
AACSB accreditation, then be sure your school dots the i's and crosses the
t's.  If not, then not.


http://cba.unomaha.edu/faculty/mohara/web/AACSBstand1_1_05.pdf

      Note especially the Standards themselves at PDF page 16 of 79 through
page 20 of 79.

      Note especially the footnotes to "TABLE II: SUMMARY OF FACULTY
QUALIFICATION, INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
(RE: Standards 2, 9, & 10)" on PDF page 50 of 79.

Michael

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