ACCSC Monograph Series

The Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges (ACCSC) has developed a series of brochures — the ACCSC Monograph Series— on topics critical to institutional success. These brochures are designed to provide guidance on some of the more technical areas of ACCSC accreditation and to provide guidance to ACCSC-accredited schools in the cycle of continuous performance improvement, self-evaluation, and self-improvement processes and practices.

Through the Monograph Series, the Commission hopes to help our accredited schools to comply fully and accurately with the Standards of Accreditation, achieve institutional success, and ensure that students are well prepared to enter the workforce.

The topics currently in print or are:

• Maximizing Program Advisory Committees
• Learning Resource Systems
• Faculty Improvement Planning/Implementation
• Self Evaluation Processes and Practices
• Institutional Assessment and Improvement Planning/Implementation

Click on the cover of each brochure below to access an online version of each brochure.

Maximizing Program Advisory Committees

This brochure explains why your institution needs effective Program Advisory Committees (PACs), describes how to establish and operate a committee, and provides ideas on how to evaluate and reap the benefits of a PAC’s success to meet the program’s need for continuous performance improvement.

Learning Resource Systems

This brochure explains why your institution needs a comprehensive learning resource system (LRS) and provides information designed to assist institutions to examine, establish, implement, integrate, and evaluate their LRS. The brochure begins with a focus on developing an understanding of a LRS and provides rationale as to why a LRS is a critical component to an institution’s efforts to support their students’ educational experience.

Faculty Improvement Planning and Implementation

This brochure covers faculty improvement and explains why it is critical to success, provides guidance on how to analyze faculty improvement needs and will help institutions design and develop a faculty development program. This brochure also provides information intended to assist institutions in developing and implementing a three-year faculty development plan, and provides practical guidance on how to use the process to meet external demands and internal needs for continuous performance improvement.

Self Evaluation Process and Practices

This brochure explains why your school needs a self-evaluation process, how to conduct each step in the process, and how to use the process to meet external demands and internal needs for continuous performance improvement.

Institutional Assessment and Improvement Planning and Implementation

This brochure explains why your school needs an assessment and improvement processes, how to conduct each step in the process, and how to use the process to meet external demands and internal needs for continuous performance improvement.

Monograph Series Webinar:   Developing and Implementing Institutional Improvement Plans

On November 19, 2007, Christopher Lambert, ACCSC’s Director of External Affairs, participated in the State of Wisconsin Educational Approval Board’s (EAB) Annual Conference.  As part of the conference activities, Lambert delivered a Key Note Presentation which focused on developing and implementing institutional improvement plans, a key area of focus for accredited and non-accredited schools alike.  

Click Here view the 90 minute webinar entitled Developing and Implementing Institutional Improvement Plans.