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A central role of any business school is to educate students in the functional skills required to do business. Learning about accounting, finance, marketing and management are all essential components of a business education. But is this enough? As businesses increasingly focus on their broader social and stakeholder responsibilities, business schools are compelled to rethink both our purpose and curriculum. This calls for a new business education that includes higher-level social justice, active citizenship, and civic leadership competencies. This panel will critically discuss the challenges and opportunities of living up to the new demands for business education to be good for society and not just good for business.

This session will explore how schools are addressing indirect measures of assurance of learning within the standards.

This informal Q&A session is an opportunity to bring questions related to your institution’s initial accreditation visit. Presenters will discuss expectations for an initial visit, including psychology, management of logistics, and what to do when the unexpected happens.

This informal Q&A session is for those approaching or undergoing a CIR visit. Bring your questions and hear AACSB leadership discuss the psychology of a visit, including management of logistics, expectations, and what to do when the unexpected happens.

What is required to develop an initial self-evaluation report (iSER) and undergo an initial accreditation visit? This session will share practical experience to ensure a smooth and well-executed visit, as well as ideas to better work with your mentor.

Join us for an insightful presentation sharing experiences from continuous review visits. We will discuss practical advice as it relates to preparing for the peer review team (PRT) visit as well as lessons learned from schools who had a recent visit.

This session will share best practices for communicating impact and strategies for reporting out scholarly efforts that extend beyond academic environments.

This session will discuss how to mature one’s assurance of learning (AoL) system, including best practices for embedding AoL "business as usual" and leveraging it for curriculum management and innovation.

This session will discuss if and how accreditation and rankings bring value to an organization.

This event is exclusively for deans and heads of business schools. Catch up with old friends and make new connections while discussing what’s on the mind of today’s business school leaders.

All mentors and interested volunteers are invited to join this session to hear reflections from experienced volunteers and mentors. We will discuss the value obtained from their experiences, learnings that surfaced in the field, and the process to get involved.

Upon conclusion of Keynote II, a photographer will take a conference participant group photo from the stage.

This session would look at how faculty move within the faculty qualifications framework throughout their career, and how schools of varied missions and faculty compositions help additional-classified faculty successfully transition to qualified faculty categories. Presenters will share institutional best practices for faculty development and management and explore some of the challenges, myths and misconceptions that schools face when trying to implement the faculty sufficiency and qualification criteria at their school.

Through the lens of AACSB’s 2020 business accreditation standards requirements, this session will help participants identify focus area/s for their school societal impact and generate ideas for measuring it given one’s local context. Presenters will share best practices for how business schools can contribute to create social value and impact the behavior and business decisions of alumni and industry partners.

This session will offer clarity on the relationship of generative AI and academic integrity. We will discuss ChatGPT, including how schools are using it, teaching with or without it, and ensuring integrity along the way.