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About AQIP
The Academic Quality Improvement Program supports continuous performance improvement in higher education. AQIP provides an alternative process for colleges and universities to maintain their regional accreditation. The Higher Learning Commission launched AQIP in 1999 with a grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Currently over 150 institutions demonstrate they meet the Higher Learning Commission’s accreditation standards through challenging activities that naturally fit with their work to improve their key systems enabling higher performance. By sharing both their process improvements and performance results, organizations participating in AQIP provide the Higher Learning Commission with the evidence to make public quality assurance judgments and nudge themselves to excel in the distinctive higher education mission each has identified. To accomplish these goals, AQIP continuously works to deploy and improve an innovative array of cost-effective, high-tech processes. Details about Action Projects, Strategy Forums, Systems Portfolios and Appraisals, Checkup Visits, and Reaffirmation of Accreditation are available on the this website. AQIP also provides avenues for individuals to expand their understanding of quality and systematic improvement by participating as peer reviewers in its processes and other services.
Training For Higher Education Institutions seeking AQIP Accreditation
| Continuous Quality Improvement for Higher Education: How Quality Can Work for Your College or University |
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The Higher Learning Commission in cooperation with Plexus International is offering
this one-day workshop introducing the goals, philosophy, principles, and tools of
continuous quality improvement as it is being applied in U.S. higher education institutions today.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is for those individuals new to AQIP and moving into positions of responsibility
within an institution participating in AQIP. Knowing the information delivered in this workshop
is essential before taking the Leading Your Institution to Quality or Leading
Improvement Initiatives workshops.
For more information about AQIP Training, call Mary Green at the Higher Learning Commission
800-621-7440 ext. 130 or visit www.aqip.org
To bring AQIP Training to your institution, call Tabitha Laumann at 1-888-753-9871.
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| Leading Improvement Initiatives: Essential Skills and Tools for Managing Action Projects |
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The Higher Learning Commission in cooperation with Plexus International is offering this two-day
workshop to provide higher education managers of institutional projects the essentials skills and
tools necessary for success. This workshop will help participants gain an understanding of the
critical ingredients to move improvement efforts from problems to solutions through chartering
effective teams, project planning, and evaluating results.
LENGTH: 2 days
PREREQUISITE: Attendance at the one-day workshop Continuous Quality Improvement for Higher Education: How Quality Can Work for Your College or University or prior knowledge of or training in AQIP categories and processes.
Who Should Attend
Using the Action Project model for strategic improvement developed by the Higher Learning Commission's
Academic Quality Improvement Program, this workshop will benefit anyone conducting improvement
projects in higher education, particularly those managing AQIP Action Projects. This workshop
employs a wide range of examples from higher education and focuses on the opportunities and barriers
to improvement presented by academic structures, culture, calendars, and governance - and how to overcome them.
Participants will learn how to:
- enable strategic change through specific projects and action
- create a formal "project charter" that defines a project's objectives, guarantees the support of administrative leaders, and sustains enthusiasm and commitment
- communicate a project's importance and progress, internally and externally
- form and develop high-energy, cross-functional, effective project teams
- employ creative, problem-solving, and analytic quality tools to discover the best approaches for improving key institutional processes and services
- develop leadership and management skills in other project team members, and prepare them to lead future improvement projects
- choose tools and techniques that help plan and schedule project tasks effectively
- develop a project plan and keep it on schedule, managing project scope to optimize stakeholder satisfaction
- develop key objective measures of success that enable the completion and evaluation of projects to advance organizational learning
For more information about AQIP Workshop, call Mary Green at the Higher Learning Commission 800-621-7440 ext. 130 or visit
www.aqip.org
To register for this AQIP Workshop, call Tabitha Laumann at 888-753-9871.
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| Leading Your Institution to Quality: Advancing Continuous Improvement in Higher Education |
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The Higher Learning Commission in cooperation with Plexus International is offering a two-day workshop
introducing institutional leaders to the skills and tools essential for success in quality improvement
programs. Whether your college or university already has a continuous quality improvement program
underway or is just beginning one, this workshop will prepare one or two institutional leaders to take
responsibility for guiding this critical institutional effort.
Who Should Attend
For colleges and universities accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, this workshop provides
essential information for the institution's AQIP Liaison. This workshop is designed for individuals
charged with leading their institution's quality program and works best when participants come from
a diverse group of institutions. Institutions should send no more than two people per scheduled workshop.
For more information about AQIP Training, call Mary Green at the Higher Learning Commission
800-621-7440 ext. 130 or visit www.aqip.org
To bring AQIP Training to your institution, call Tabitha Laumann at 1-888-753-9871.
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