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Purdue University Calumet Academic Quality Improvement Program - AQIP
Origins and Purposes of the Academic Quality Improvement Project
"Launched in July 1999 with a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Academic Quality Improvement
Project attempts to infuse the principles and benefits of continuous improvement into the culture of colleges and
universities by providing an alternative process through which an already-accredited institution can maintain its
accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. With
AQIP, an institution has the opportunity to demonstrate it meets the Higher Learning Commission’s accreditation
standards and expectations through sequences of events that naturally align with those ongoing activities that
characterize organizations striving to improve their performance. By sharing both its advancement activities and the
results of these actions with AQIP, an institution provides the Higher Learning Commission with the evidence it needs
both to make a public quality assurance judgment and to support and to assist the institution in its efforts to excel at
achieving the distinctive higher education mission it has set for itself.
To achieve these goals, AQIP uses direct, cost-effective processes that themselves are continuously improved. Full
details about AQIP’s Strategy Forums, Systems Appraisals, and various other services are available from the AQIP
website (www.AQIP.org). The website also provides links that individuals and institutions can use to learn more about
involvement, about quality and systematic improvement, or about the other initiatives that AQIP is undertaking to
support its network of participants."
Principles of High Performance Organizations
"Research and experience indicate that common principles — Focus, Involvement, Leadership, Learning, People,
Collaboration, Agility, Foresight, Information, and Integrity — permeate colleges and universities that have achieved a
systematic approach to continuous quality improvement. These qualities underlie all of the Academic Quality
Improvement Project's criteria, activities, processes, and services, and they represent the values to which AQIP itself
aspires organizationally."
- from AQIP Principles and Criteria
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