Because nothing says #ethics and #integrity better than unpaid #research ...
In what way does pressuring freelance lecturers on teaching-only contracts to provide unpaid research for accreditation metrics, reflect the principle of Ethics and Integrity that John Cabot University claims to uphold?
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#truth
#silence
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#studyabroad
When is it OK for universities administrators to ghost faculty asking critical questions? Never!
Not even on #Halloween!đ
@John Cabot University:
Why don't you pay for research?!?
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We model the relationship between professional skills and higher education programs as a non-directed bipartite network with binary entries representing the links between 28 skills (as captured by the occupational information network, O*NET) and 258 graduate program summaries (as captured by commercial brochures of graduate programs in marketing with accreditation standards of the âAssociation to Advance Collegiate Schools of Businessâ). While descriptive analysis for skills suggests a qualitative lack of alignment between the job demands captured by O*NET, inferential analyses based on exponential random graph model estimates show that skillsâ popularity and homophily coexist with a systematic yet weak alignment to job demands for marketing managers.
Business Schools: Time to Cancel your AACSB Accreditations!
Since the business school accreditation agency AACSB has recently renounced Diversity, Equity and Inclusive (DEI), it is high time that AACSB accredited business schools renounce their accreditations.
Accreditations are questionable in themselves. Expensive, lots of bureaucracy, hardly any noticeable improvements for students or lecturers. Not much substance, mostly a legitimacy facade. Iâve always found cheers about multiple accreditations absurd.
But when global accreditation of business schools immediately abandons DEI standards in anticipatory submission to an authoritarian US president announcing legally questionable decrees, then all the talk of âacademic research principlesâ (p. 57 in the âGuiding Principles and Standards for Business School Accrediationâ) is exactly that: just talk.
And when the adoption of diversity, equity and inclusion is also introduced with the words âIn the spirit of continuous improvementâ, it makes things even worse. One could say, it adds insult to injury.
Screenshot https://www.aacsb.edu/educators/accreditation/business-accreditation [March 11, 2025]Finally, when the decision is justified by the fact that âDEI had become âpoliticizedââ, then this is proof that AACSB has obviously never understood the inherently political nature of standards for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Let me conclude with a practical proposal: AACSB-accredited universities in Europe should better invest their annual AACSB membership fee of USD 7,140 and the much higher expenses for regular re-accreditation procedures into hosting US-based DEI researchers being persecuted overseas.
(leonhard)
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The primary business school accrediting body has cut diversity, equity and inclusion from its reporting standards amid federal attacks on DEI, according to The Financial Times. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business replaced the words âdiversity and inclusionâ with âcommunity and connectednessâ and eliminated a dozen other references to those terms in its document of guiding principles for schools.
HEC Liège, our School of Management, confirms its recognition by the #AACSB international label, one of the most important, of the quality of its training programs, its research and its impact on society. Congratulations to the entire HEC community! đ
https://www.hec.uliege.be/cms/c_12264148/en/hec-liege-receives-the-renewal-of-aacsb-accreditation
Crina Pungulescu
Universität Hohenheim
Juan C. Correa
governancexborders.com
UniversitÊ de Liège