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22-632: The International Business School of Beijing Foreign Studies University is accredited from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business . BFSU alumni are well known in Chinese diplomacy circles such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of State Security . BFSU was affiliated with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from its establishment in 1941 to the early 1980s. BFSU has more than 3,000 international students from all over

44-469: A database of recognized accreditation agencies globally. It is a non-profit, non-governmental association focused on U.S. and non-U.S. accreditation and higher education quality assurance worldwide. CHEA is led by a board of directors that consists of 20 members, including presidents of colleges and universities, other institutional representatives, and members of the public. As of 2022, Gena Glickman, Ph.D., President Emerita of Manchester Community College,

66-509: Is a United States organization of degree -granting colleges and universities. It identifies its purpose as providing national advocacy for academic quality through accreditation in order to certify the quality of higher education accrediting organizations, including regional , faith-based, private, career, and programmatic accrediting organizations. The organization has accredited colleges and universities as members, and currently recognizes approximately 64 accrediting organizations. CHEA

88-508: Is an American professional and accreditation organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to business schools. AACSB is considered as one of the triple accreditation . Not all members of the association are accredited; the association also does not accredit for-profit schools. In 2019, the association received ISO 9001 certification. The association

110-536: Is based in Washington, D.C. CHEA is a member of International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE). The Council for Higher Education Accreditation serves its members, students and society through advocacy for the value and independence of accreditation, recognition of accrediting organizations and commitment to quality in higher education. Established in 1996, CHEA

132-458: Is the chair of the CHEA Board of Directors. The staff president of CHEA is Cynthia Jackson Hammond. CHEA has voiced opposition to various accreditation reform efforts by the U.S. Department of Education . The organization faces challenges in helping the public to better understand accreditation in the U.S., and distinguish between the recognition of accrediting agencies conducted by

154-542: Is the successor to several earlier national nongovernmental associations formed to coordinate the U.S. accreditation process for higher education . In 1974, the Federation of Regional Accrediting Commissions of Higher Education (FRACHE; an association of regional accreditors ) and the National Commission on Accrediting (an association of specialized and national accreditation agencies) had merged to form

176-446: The U.S. Secretary of Education , and those recognized by private nongovernmental associations, such as CHEA. CHEA recognition of accreditors differs from the recognition by the U.S. Secretary of Education, required for Title IV (HEA) student financial aid eligibility and loan guarantees. For the purpose of state government oversight of higher education, the state of Oregon authorizes accreditation organizations recognized by both

198-573: The regional accreditors voted to leave COPA, indicating their dissatisfaction with COPA's political representation in the U.S. Congress , which representation was widely viewed as ineffective, particularly in regard to the new legislation establishing the SPREs. In April 1993, COPA voted to disband itself by the end of the year. Work by the National Policy Board on Higher Education Institutional Accreditation (NPB), and other groups laid

220-518: The Council on Postsecondary Accreditation (COPA), which had the purpose of ensuring the quality of accreditation. In 1993, COPA was dissolved because of tensions among the different types of accreditation agencies that formed its membership—ultimately the result of the increasing problems for higher education in the 1980s and 1990s. Problems with tuition increases, scandals, and doubts about the value of postsecondary higher education plagued all parts of

242-818: The Ranking of Chinese Language Universities of the Academic Ranking of World Universities. BFSU has produced an array of senior diplomatic officials and proudly claims itself as "the cradle of PRC diplomats". However, having trained hundreds of Chinese ambassadors, China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) also considers itself "the cradle of Chinese diplomats". Rivalry between students of the two universities continue to present day. 39°57′15″N 116°18′15″E  /  39.95417°N 116.30417°E  / 39.95417; 116.30417 Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business ( AACSB )

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264-564: The association was adopted in 2001. The present name of the association was adopted in 2001. In January 2015, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation deferred recognition of the association pending satisfaction of its policy requirements, and in July its Committee on Recognition recommended that recognition be denied on the basis that the AACSB had consistently failed to document that it

286-453: The establishment of State Postsecondary Review Entities (SPREs), which were given accrediting powers under special conditions. "When campus lobbyists heard about the legislation and realized that non-governmental accreditation was being replaced by a federal-state agency evaluation of institutions, including assessments of academic quality never before carried out by the government, they 'went apoplectic', as one observer put it." Early in 1993,

308-455: The groundwork for a national successor to COPA. Among their concerns were establishing a more grassroots membership, billing and fees, and advisory role of the accrediting associations, improving the public image of accrediting, and improving the ability to lobby the Federal government. CHEA's immediate predecessor was the Council for Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation (CORPA), which

330-623: The higher education sector. In particular, Congressional investigations of soaring student loan defaults and student aid abuses were highly critical of the laxity of accreditation and accreditation processes. Consequently, the 1992 amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 included Program Integrity provisions designed to strengthen the gatekeeping triad for student loan guarantees and financial aid (i.e., state licensing bodies, accreditation associations, and Federal government). The higher education community viewed with alarm

352-810: The latter part of the twentieth century adopted a more international approach to business education. The first school it accredited outside the United States was the Alberta School of Business at the University of Alberta in 1968, the first outside North America was the French business school ESSEC , in 1997, and the first business school outside North America and Europe was the KFUPM Business School KFUPM Business School , in 2000. The present name of

374-592: The process of getting accreditation (i.e., "candidates" for accreditation). CHEA's "user agreement for publications of the Council for Higher Education Accreditation" states that it does not guarantee that all accredited schools are listed in the database. In 2012 CHEA launched the CHEA International Quality Group (CIQG) to advance understanding of international quality assurance and to promote high-quality higher education through international accreditation bodies worldwide. The CIQG provides

396-584: The recent edition of the Best Chinese Universities Ranking . The university consistently features in the top 100 international universities in linguistics as ranked by the QS World University Rankings by subjects. BFSU is also highly ranked by the world universities rankings in "Arts and Humanities", "Modern Languages", " English Language and Literature" and "Education". The university was ranked first in

418-761: The world, more than 100 countries. More than 70 years, over 90,000 people have graduated from the Beijing Foreign Studies University. BFSU is a research university specializing in foreign language studies. It is considered one of the most prestigious in its field in the country. BFSU ranked 17th out of almost 3,000 higher education institutions in China according to statistics based on the Gaokao from 2012 to 2023. As of 2023, Beijing Foreign Studies University ranked first among universities in China specializing in language studies and research in

440-504: Was formed following the dissolution of COPA. CHEA grandfathered in those accrediting associations recognized by COPA, provided that more than half the institutions that they accredited granted degrees. Each accreditor recognized by CHEA is independent, which means that accreditation requirements vary from group to group. CHEA maintains a website that contains a searchable database to check the accreditation status of recognized accreditation agencies, accredited schools, or schools currently in

462-590: Was once known as the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business and as the International Association for Management Education. The American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business was founded as an accrediting body in 1916 by a group of seventeen American universities and colleges. The first accreditations took place in 1919. For many years, the association accredited only American business schools, but in

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484-584: Was routinely providing "reliable information to the public on their performance, including student achievement" as CHEA requires. In September 2016, the association withdrew from the council. In 2019, it received ISO 9001 certification. Since June 2023, the organization's president and chief executive officer has been Lily Bi, who was previously an executive at the Institute of Internal Auditors . Council for Higher Education Accreditation The Council for Higher Education Accreditation ( CHEA )

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