Program Spotlight
The Long Road to Assessment
In 2003 the accrediting body for business schools, AACSB International,
voted to adopt new standards by which business programs would be evaluated
in the next round of reaccreditation visits. These new standards re-focused
the educational mission with the emphasis turning from teaching to learning.
Now all degree programs needed to have explicit learning goals for their
students, as well as a means to measure if students were attaining these
goals. “Assessment” had come to the Zicklin School of Business with or
without an invitation. There would be no escape from assessment and its
repercussions.
The way in which the BBA program began its journey down the assessment road
is recounted in an article by Phyllis Zadra, Associate Dean of the Zicklin
School (BizEd November/December 2007). That article describes the first two
and half years of our efforts (fall 2004-spring 2007). Much more continues
to unfold as assessment provides the motivation for changes in the classroom
and in the curriculum. In future newsletters we will highlight some of these
remarkable changes.
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