ABET Accreditation Support

ABET Accreditation Support

Departments and colleges/schools across the campus are periodically involved in accreditation efforts. These are labor intensive efforts and tend to require the collection and assembly of information about the faculty. Working on an accreditation self-study typically involves multiple requests for specific information that is needed for the accreditation reports, coupled with administrative efforts combing through CVs to find specific information.

While much of the self-study work that these units assemble involves qualitative assessments of the programs and faculty involved, there are also quantitative elements. There is a good chance that Faculty Success can support the creation of those quantitative elements through pre-built reports.

The Faculty Success platform maintains pre-built reports for a number of accrediting bodies, including AACSB, HLC, ABET, CAEP, and CCNE. These reports mainly draw on data already available in Faculty Success for your faculty from their annual activity reporting. Where needed, additional data fields or activity screens can be added to the platform to ensure full coverage for a particular pre-built report. These additional fields and screens can be made available to all faculty within a particular college or school, reducing confusion for faculty in other domains.

At the University of Maryland, Faculty Success has supported the School of Public Health's Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) and Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) accreditation work in 2021.

Currently, the Office of Faculty Affairs is working with the School of Engineering to support their Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) program evaluations. Faculty Success has implemented four pre-built reports for ABET program reviews. The platform has been augmented by two new ENGR-only activity screens and seven new data fields on three of the existing activity screens.

These schools have found that when their faculty keep their activity information up-to-date on a regular basis, accreditation efforts are streamlined by using Faculty Success data. In these cases, they avoided the need to send multiple email requests and to comb through individual CVs. Both Engineering and Public Health were able to easily access the information they needed for accreditation reporting.