Exercise 17: Next Steps
Reinvigorate your efforts with more
ambitious Action Projects
• Formulate and declare new AQIP Action
Projects that will implement your strategies
– Action Projects to implement two Category
Improvement Campaigns
– Action Projects to implement your Culture and
Infrastructure Improvement Campaign
Stimulate broader and deeper
involvement with Action Projects
• AQIP has improved its Action Project Directory
allowing institutions to list more projects
– Allows you to "version" Action Projects to keep
them up-to-date
• Capture the accomplishments of Action Projects in
your Systems Portfolio (the Improvement #1 item in
each Category provides a specific place for this)
Analyze information to identify your
best improvement opportunities:
– Systems Portfolio Feedback and other reports
– Your strategic or other plans
– Board, state, and system imperatives
– Operational experience and data
– Changed constraints and opportunities
The #2 Improvement item in each Category asks about
your system for driving improvement.
Evaluate and invigorate your quality
program or infrastructure
• Determine whether your quality program is
structured
• to drive your projects successfully,
• integrate with other planning and prioritization
processes,
• promote continuing development of a quality culture,
and
• assure its continuation, vitality, and growth
• Create (and share with AQIP the URL) of an
internet page explaining your quality program —
to insiders and outsiders
Will be mailed to your
institution's AQIP
Liaison
Available at
www.AQIP.org as well
Quality Checkup visit
• Occurs the year before your next scheduled
Reaffirmation of Accreditation, to provide additional
positive evidence supporting continued accreditation
• Campus visit by two-person team begins noon
Wednesday and ends noon Friday.
• Affirmative and constructive agenda planned
collaboratively by visiting team and institution.
Plan and host a Quality Checkup visit
• Clarify and verify points about your Systems Portfolio
and Systems Appraisal feedback
• Explore how your institution is following up on its
Systems Appraisal feedback
• Put to rest any outstanding Accreditation Issues
• Review your institution's compliance with certain
Federal regulations that the HLC must monitor
• Explore and verify your commitment to continuous
improvement
Encourage your faculty and staff to
become AQIP peer reviewers
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Action Project Annual Update reviewers
Systems Appraisers
Quality Checkup visit team members
Members of AQIP and HLC review panels
on Admission, Institutional Change, and
Reaffirmation of Accreditation
AQIP – Baldrige Option: Pilot
program to allow experienced
AQIP institutions to substitute a
state or federal quality award
application – and a shorter
compliance narrative – for a
Systems Portfolio and Systems
Appraisal. See FAQs on website
for details.
More to Come
• AQIP Action Project Survey –
improving the Systems Apprasial
• Revised Criteria
• New AQIP Categories – HLC
Criteria Crosswalk
• Pathways
AQIP@
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