Goals of AQIP

• Help our member organizations improve their performance and maximize their effectiveness

• Reshape the relationship with members of our Commission into a partnership

• Provide the public with credible quality assurance concerning higher education providers

AQIP Philosophy

• Voluntary, alternative process

• Concentrates on the academic enterprise

• Involves more faculty more directly

• Provides concrete feedback to enable institutions to raise performance levels

• Reduces intrusiveness, cost, slow improvement cycles

AQIP Philosophy• Replaces “one-size fits all” approach

• Supplies public with more understandable, useful information concerning the quality and value of accredited colleges and universities

• Recognizes and celebrates institutional distinctiveness and outstanding achievements

AQIP’s Processes

• Initial Interest Exploration and Self-Assessment

• Four-year cycle, consisting of Strategy Forum and Systems Appraisal

• Annual Update on Action Projects

• Formal Reaffirmation of Accreditation every seven years, based on pattern of participation

SystemsAppraisal

StrategyStrategyForumForum

SystemsPortfolio

AnnualUpdate

ActionProjects

Re-affirmAccreditation

Vital Focus Strategy Forum Action Projects Annual Update Systems Portfolio Systems Appraisal Process Flow

Reaffirmation Services Process Metrics Silos Quality Costs Contacts

Each AQIP Criterion asks:

• How stable, well-designed, and robust are your systems and processes?

• How consistently do you employ and deploy your systems and processes?

• How satisfying and good are the results your systems and processes achieve?

• How do you use your performance data to drive improvement?

Measuring Effectiveness

UnderstandingStudents’and other

Stakeholders’Needs

Building CollaborativeRelationships

Planning ContinuousImprovement

AccomplishingOther Distinctive

Objectives

Leading andCommunicating

ValuingPeople

HelpingStudents Learn

SupportingInstitutional Operations

Overall, the AQIP Criteria ask:

• Are you doing the right things — the things that are most important in order to achieve your institution’s goals?

• Are you doing things right — effectively, efficiently, in ways that truly satisfy the needs of those you serve?

Vital Focus Strategy Forum Action Projects Annual Update Systems Portfolio Systems Appraisal Process Flow

Reaffirmation Services Process Metrics Silos Quality Costs Contacts

• Nine higher education criteria

Separate criteria for various systems of related work processes

Results embedded in each criterion

• Improvement cycles based on feedback leading to focused Action Projects

• Collaboration and networking with peers in a non-threatening environment

• Re-accreditation integrated seamlessly with improvement based on an institution’s own priorities

AQIP’s Advantages

Planning Committee ChargesTo Complete by March

• Advise on the completion of the AQIP application to the Higher Learning Commission

• Discuss options for self assessment (required for the application)

• Discuss options for determining Action Projects (required for the application)

Planning Committee ChargesTo Complete by May

• Develop a communication plan• Develop a timeline of implementation--

Identify important steps, when to commit to each within AQIP requirements, etc.

• Identify the budget needed for FY05 and beyond

• Recommend the development of the Steering Committee