Foundations of the AACSB Global Standards (Shanghai)

Registration, refreshments, and networking.

Explore the evolution from the Business Accreditation Standards to the Global Standards; mission-driven excellence and continuous improvement; principles-based versus compliance-based approaches; understanding how the standards function as an integrated framework for business education quality. Activity: Standards Connections Exercise. Participants explore a sample institutional initiative and then reflect on a current initiative at their own institution to identify connections across the standards.

Explore how teaching, scholarship, and societal engagement contribute to institutional impact. Standard 7: Teaching effectiveness and educational impact. Standard 8: Mission-aligned scholarship. Standard 9: Societal impact and community engagement. Activity: Impact Story Workshop. Participants review a sample institutional story and then reflect on examples of impact within their own institution that could strengthen conversations about mission and value.

Reflect on the day's learning and identify institutional strengths, opportunities, and priority areas for continued discussion. Activity: Global Standards Action Plan. Participants integrate insights from each course module to identify institutional strengths, opportunities for continued discussion, key stakeholders to engage, and practical next steps for supporting ongoing quality enhancement at their institution. Deliverable: Individual Institutional Action Plan.