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Headlines AACSB Members Ratify New Standards In a heavily attended session that clearly signaled the importance of the issue, members of AACSB International voted to adopt new accreditation standards during the International Conference and Annual Meeting held in New Orleans in April. The association's Blue Ribbon Commit- tee on Accreditation Quality, work- ing in close collaboration with members, had developed the re- vised standards over a 30-month period. The new standards EMBA Students Surveyed on Satisfaction Executive MBA students in general report high levels of satisfaction and loyalty toward their MBA programs, according to the 2002 Executive MBA Student Satisfac- tion Exit Survey administered by the Executive MBA Council. Results of the survey were released this spring. More than 1,700 students from 59 schools participated in the 2002 survey. When students were asked to rate in 1991, were written with U.S. busi- ness education structures and tradi- tions in mind. When AACSB began accrediting outside of the U.S. and Canada in 1997, it was with the understanding that modifications would be made after the organization gained more experience in accredit- ing outside of North America. The new standards retain the link to each business school's mission and en- hance the emphasis on the demon- stration of learning achievement. According to Jerry Trapnell, board apply to business edu- cation around the world. Previous AACSB International accreditation standards, which were last revised chair of AACSB and dean of the Col- lege of Business and Behavioral Sci- ence at Clemson University in South Carolina, the 2003 standards are "visionary, inclusive, and a powerful force for growth and enhancements in business schools. AACSB's goal is to advance management education around the world. In adopting these standards, our organization has taken a giant step in that direction." 8 BizEd JULY/AUGUST 2003 their satisfaction with programs on a scale from zero to ten, 86 percent gave their programs an overall rating of eight, nine, or ten. The number of students who greatly enjoyed their experience and would recommend the program—called "apostles" in the survey's Loyalty Index chart— increased dramatically, from 42 per- cent in 2001 to 58 percent in 2002. Students who took the survey Schools Achieve Accreditation More than 40 schools worldwide received initial or reaffirmation of accreditation from AACSB International this spring. The schools accredited for the first time were: Aston University in Birmingham, England; Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida; Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario; California State University, Stanislaus, in Turlock; University of California, Riverside; Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond; ESCP-EAP in Paris; Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers; HEC Montreal in Quebec; IPADE in Mexico City; National University of Singapore; Ohio Northern University in Ada; University of Ottawa in Ontario; The Pennsylvania State University at Erie; The University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia; Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, Michigan; St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York; Tel Aviv University in Israel; Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Reaffirming accreditation were the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; American University in Washing- ton, D.C.; University of Colorado in Colorado Springs; Indiana State University in Terre Haute; Jackson State University in Mississippi; Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles; San Diego State University in California; Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond; University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg; Trinity Univer- sity in San Antonio, Texas; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Maintaining accreditation were the University of Arizona in Tucson; University of Chicago; Claremont Graduate University in California; Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire; Duke University in Durham, North Carolina; University of Georgia in Athens; Georgia Southern University in Statesboro; ITESM in Monter- rey, Mexico; University of Louisville in Kentucky; University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; University of Pennsylva- nia in Philadelphia; Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana; Texas A&M University in College Station; and Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.