The AIR Professional File
Summer 1985, Article 22
Preparing for Self-Study
https://doi.org/10.34315/apf0221985Abstract
Colleges and universities have studied everything from cabbages to kings, but rarely have they paused willingly to reflect on the effectiveness of their own educational programs and services. Although accreditation is a useful process that can promote self-analysis, it remains both periodic and externally motivated. Self-study, on the other hand, can become an integral and continuing part of an institution's self-consciousness. If an institution is to ensure both its effectiveness and future liability, it must know itself well. This requires not merely information but the willingness and wisdom to apply it in an ongoing effort of constructive institutional change.
Authors
- F C. Johnson
- Melodie E. Christal
Copyright © Association for Institutional Research 1985
Date: 1985
Pages: 8
ISSN: 2155-7535