Five Dimensions of Quality
A Common Sense Guide to Accreditation and Accountability
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Praise for Five Dimensions of Quality
"Readers of Linda Suskie's new book, Five Dimensions of Quality, will embrace assessment and accreditation as creative and forward-looking means for effecting cultural change and improving quality. For Suskie, it is common sense to adopt an organizational discipline that leads to improved quality." --Lewis Evitts Thayne, president, Lebanon Valley College
"Linda's accreditation and assessment experience, melded with her higher education research, provide readers with guidance, examples, and references relevant not only to accreditation but, more broadly, to effective leadership and management practices. Anyone concerned with strengthening higher education, or seeking to enhance institutional effectiveness, will find Five Dimensions of Quality to be an invaluable resource." --Elizabeth Ann Whiteman, director of accreditation and strategic initiatives, Carnegie Mellon University
"For years, Linda Suskie has been the voice that synthesizes and explains. What she does best is to integrate ideas, strategies, and good practice across research, time, and people and then distill them into a readable, powerful framework that is meaningful for those new to accreditation, for those in leadership seeking to understand how accreditation activities fit into strategic priorities, and for those that want to get back to the basics and see anew what makes accreditation efforts meaningful, useful, reasonable, and workable." --Lynn Priddy, provost, National American University
Meet calls for increased quality and understand accreditation expectations
Author Linda Suskie is internationally recognized for her work in higher education assessment, and she is a former vice president of a major regional accreditor. In Five Dimensions of Quality: A Common Sense Guide to Accreditation and Accountability in Higher Education she provides a simple, straightforward model for understanding and meeting the calls for increased quality in higher education ever-present in today's culture. Whether your institution is seeking accreditation or not, the five dimensions she outlines will help you to identify ways to improve institutional quality and demonstrate that quality to constituents.
For those wading through the accreditation process, which has become more difficult in recent years due to increasing regulation and pressure for greater accountability, Suskie offers expert guidance on understanding the underlying principles of the expectations of accrediting bodies. Using the model presented here, which is much easier to understand than the sometimes complex resources provided by individual accrediting bodies, American colleges and universities can understand what they need to do to earn and maintain their regional accreditation as well as improve overall institutional quality for their students. You'll be able to:
* Identify ways to improve institutional quality
* Demonstrate the quality of your institution to internal and external constituents
* Avoid wasting time and energy on misguided institutional processes to comply with accreditation requirements
By focusing on why colleges and universities should take particular actions rather than only on what those actions should be, Five Dimensions of Quality gives them the knowledge and strategies to prepare for a successful review. It is an ideal resource for leaders, accreditation committee members, and everyone on campus.
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Linda Suskie
Themen in »Five Dimensions of Quality«
Assessment, Evaluation & Research (Higher Education) Bildungswesen Education Hochschule Hochschulen / Leitung, Verwaltung, Politik Hochschulen / Qualitätskontrolle, Evaluierung Leadership, Administration & Policy (Higher Education)