Keeping AACSB Qualified
Our accrediting body, the AACSB, requires that instructional faculty be classified into one of the following four categories based on their academic credentials, professional experience, and scholarly and professional engagement: scholarly academic (SA), practice academic (PA), scholarly practitioner (SP), and instructional practitioner (IP).
This classification is required as a means for the college to show that it has the necessary intellectual capital to support the college’s mission and strategies. The college develops appropriate criteria consistent with its mission for classifying faculty, and for maintaining classification status.Importantly, minimum standards for maintaining qualifications are not to be interpreted as goals or requirements for promotion or tenure in the college.
Please review the COB Handbook for more information about keeping academically qualified.