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(October 14, 2009) Is AACSB Accreditation Worth the Cost? In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education news report, “Struggling Colleges Question the Cost—and Worth—of Specialized Accreditation” the lead-in stated, “In thinking about selecting a new dean for its business school this year, Southern New Hampshire University considered whether the new leader should guide the school to gain accreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, as more than 500 colleges have done. But after seeing estimates that the costs of meeting those standards could top $2-million annually, Paul J. LeBlanc, president of the university, decided that approval from the business-college association wasn’t worth the institution’s time or money.”

(April 25, 2010) (updated April 27, 2010) The Kingdom Ignored One of the AQ-PQ Debacles that Almost Cost the CoB AACSB Accreditation There are so many reports and editorials here at USMNEWS.net that describe how former CoB dean Harold Doty completely bungled the USM b-school’s 2007 AACSB re-accreditation effort that it would take one a weekend to go through them all. One aspect of that debacle is how what sources have referred to as Doty’s “personal agenda” blinded the former CoB dean to the task then at hand – securing the AACSB’s favor. Arguably, the most prominent example of this came via Doty’s unexpected and unwarranted attack on CoB legal studies professor Ernest King.

(April 27, 2010) Breaking Bad HOW FRAUGHT WITH MISREPRESENTATION WAS THE 2007 REACCREDITATION DOSSIER? A comparison of the CoB’s 2007 6th-Year AACSB Review report with Accounting’s separate 2007 6th-Year AACSB Review report yields some interesting findings. The accounting report was finalized on 15-Oct-07, two days after the CoB report was put together (see accounting report cover page below).

(April 29, 2010) AQ Anomalies from the CoB’s 6th Year AACSB Review How the CoB Categorized its Faculty to Put the Best Face on its 2007 AACSB Dossier Thanks to a tip from a USMNEWS.net reader, reporters at USMNEWS.net are now reviewing the CoB’s 6th Year Review Report for its 2007 AACSB reaccreditation. That tip came in response to reports that had former CoB interim dean Alvin Williams reversing former CoB dean Harold Doty’s decision to deny CoB legal studies professor Ernest King classification as Professionally Qualified (PQ).

(June 2, 2010) The 2007 AACSB Debacle all over Again? CHERYLYNN BECKER NOW TEACHING GRADUATE MGT COURSE AT COB-GC The CoB’s problematic 2007 attempt to maintain its AACSB accreditation is a story that is covered on many of the pages here at USMNEWS.net. The CoB’s AACSB Peer Review Team visited the campus in February-2007, and in the weeks after that visit it delivered a written report, placing the CoB on a “6th Year Review.”