Is the schools undergraduate business program still the main sticking point barring Jones from becoming accredited?
That used to be the main sticking point about 10 years ago, but today, it’s no longer an issue. The AACSB has changed a lot, and we just didn’t keep up. Initially it was basically the undergrad business program. The AACSB has long since moved that from one of the issues, however. Besides needing to increase our minorities enrollment, the other issue we’re facing is our use of adjunct faculty from the community; we have a fair amount of highly placed business people teach electives in their areas of expertise. And we have to come up with a higher number of students being taught by tenured faculty to meet AACSB’s standards. I feel that our growth in faculty and our initiative to abide by accreditation rules has put us in the clear, however. We need the AACSB, and I think, personally, that they need us. Although the school has been experiencing a downturn in apps, it doesn’t seem to be affecting the quality of the student body. That’s true. This year, the quality of our application pool h
