NSU seeking AACSB accreditation?

One of my colleagues told me that NSU is seeking AACSB accreditation. However, I have been unable to find any corroboration of this.

Typically, there is nothing about this on NSU's website, as schools are precluded from making statements about their accreditation applications, in order to avoid misleading the public.

NSU has been a member of AACSB for some time.

Is there anything to this rumor, or is it just so much gossip and hearsay?

 

The last time I spoke with Preston Jones (director of the DBA program), they were seriously considering it. Preston knew all the details of the new (April 2003) AACSB standards that are actually fairly friendly to NSU. The Dean of the school has spoken about AACSB favorably as well.

Among the key concept is that AACSB requires schools to have a given percentage of "participating faculty". Gone are the requirements for "full-time" faculty. AACSB cares that faculty have an on-going relationship with a school (not just "term at a time") and that they do more than just teach (in particular, that they are involved in curriculum or other tasks). They don't care if faculty are "full-time", "tenured", etc. NSU has "participating faculty" (both full-time and part-time) in their doctoral program, for sure.

I'm hopeful that NSU can pull this off. I suspect that it could be a key differentiator in a growing, but increasingly competitive market particularly for the doctoral program.

Will they? Under the old rules (pre-April 2003) there was no economic way for NSU to go AACSB. Maybe they can now. However, one key issue is the schools masters and undergraduate programs. They use lots of part-timers in these.

Regards - Andy

 

Re: Re: NSU seeking AACSB accreditation?

Andy,

Thank you for this information. I hope that they pull it off, too. Then, NSU graduates would have an easier time landing posts at traditional business schools.