Quality Breakfast/ Tea

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Academic Accountability

• Quality Breakfast/ Tea
• April 1 830 am
• April 3 400pm

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Academic Accountability

• Accountability is a concept in ethics with
  several meanings. It is often used synonymously
  with such concepts as answerability, enforcement,
  responsibility, blameworthiness, liability and
  other terms associated with the expectation of
  account-giving. As an aspect of governance, it
  has been central to discussions related to
  problems in both the public and private
  (corporation) worlds.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountability

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Academic Accountability

• In leadership roles, accountability is the
  acknowledgment and assumption of responsibility
  for actions, products, decisions, and policies
  including the administration, governance and
  implementation within the scope of the role or
  employment position and encompassing the
  obligation to report, explain and be answerable
  for resulting consequences.
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountability

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Academic Accountability

•  Accountability refers to the pyramid of
  responsibility beginning with the individual and
  building to top management. It includes setting
  appropriate and reachable organizational goals
  and focusing on the work that must be done to
  reach those goals communicating the goals and
  tasks to others clarifying expectations and
  defining roles and responsibilities
• http//www.af.mil/library/nsps-af/nspscomingtoterm
  s.asp

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Academic Accountability

•  Accountability requires individuals to dedicate
  themselves to work toward the organizations
  goal, taking responsibility for their behavior,
  their work, and their outcome. It is an essential
  component in a successful career and a necessary
  element in a productive and efficient work
  environment. 
• http//www.af.mil/library/nsps-af/nspscomingtoterm
  s.asp

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Academic Accountability

• accountabilityThe notion that people (e.g.,
  students or teachers) or an organization (e.g., a
  school, school district, or state department of
  education) should be held responsible for
  improving student achievement and should be
  rewarded or sanctioned for their success or lack
  of success in doing so.  (Ed Source)
• http//www.schoolwisepress.com/smart/dict/dict.htm
  l

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Academic Accountability

• WHAT MAKES THE QUALITY PRINCIPLES DIFFERENT?
• The principles advocated in this report are
  interrelated and interdependent. They need to be
  implemented as a system drive by the vision and
  mission of the institution. The mission evolves
  and changes as stakeholder expectations are
  included in defining the direction of the
  institution.
• Freed, Jann E. 1997. A Culture for Academic
  Excellence Implementing the Quality Principles
  in Higher Education. George Washington Univ.
  Washington DC. Graduate School of Education and
  Human Development.

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• Most institutions have missions, but most are not
  accustomed to measuring the outcomes of their
  processes. Traditionally, constituencies within
  higher education institutions act independently
  rather than interdependently.
• Freed, Jann E. 1997. A Culture for Academic
  Excellence Implementing the Quality Principles
  in Higher Education. George Washington Univ.
  Washington DC. Graduate School of Education and
  Human Development.

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Academic Accountability

• Transparenc y and Accountabilit y
• We have noted a remarkable shortage of clear,
  accessible information about crucial aspects of
  American colleges and universities, from
  financial aid to graduation rates. Because data
  systems are so limited and inadequate, it is hard
  for policymakers to obtain reliable information
  on students progress through the educational
  pipeline. This lack of useful data and
  accountability hinders policymakers and the
  public from making informed decisions and
  prevents higher education from demonstrating its
  contribution to the public good.
• Spellings Commission Report 2006

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Academic Accountability

• Transparenc y and Accountabilit y
• We believe that improved accountability is vital
  to ensuring the success of all the other reforms
  we propose. Colleges and universities must become
  more transparent about cost, price, and student
  success outcomes, and must willingly share this
  information with students and families. Student
  achievement, which is inextricably connected to
  institutional success, must be measured by
  institutions on a value-added basis that takes
  into account students academic baseline when
  assessing their results. This information should
  be made available to students, and reported
  publicly in aggregate form to provide consumers
  and policymakers an accessible, understandable
  way to measure the relative effectiveness of
  different colleges and universities.
• Spellings Commission Report 2006

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Academic Accountability

• Traditionally, institutional quality is measured
  primarily through financial inputs and resources.
  In todays environment, these measures of inputs
  are no longer adequate, either within individual
  institutions or across all of higher education.
• Spellings Commission Report 2006

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Academic Accountability

• Academic Freedomis sometimes confused with
  autonomy, thought and speech freed from all
  constraints. But academic freedom implies not
  just freedom from constraint but also freedom for
  faculty and students to work within a scholarly
  community to develop the intellectual and
  personal qualities required of citizens in a
  vibrant democracy and participants in a vigorous
  economy. Academic freedom is protected by society
  so that faculty and students can use that freedom
  to promote the larger good. AACU Board of
  Directors' Statement- January 6, 2006

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Academic Accountability

• Academic Freedom vs. Academic Accountability
• It seems that there is a lot of confusion these
  days among university professors about the
  difference between the concepts of "academic
  freedom" and "academic accountability". Many of
  them appear to believe that having "academic
  freedom" means never having to say they're
  sorry--or at least, never being accountable for
  what they say and forever protected from
  criticism of their thoughts and opinions and
  behavior--no matter how UNacademic or asinine.
• http//drsanity.blogspot.com/2005/02/academic-free
  dom-vs-academic.html

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Academic Accountability

• Program Review
• Program Outcomes
• Course Objectives
• Course Outline/ Syllabus
• Class times
• Grading
• Currency
• Equity vs. Equality
• http//www.ets.org/cultureofevidence/
• http//learn.sfccnm.edu/Jack-Policies/4-11 SFCC
  Academic Freedom Policy.doc