HIGHER EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION LINKS

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ACCREDITATING BODIES & REGIONAL ASSNS.

American Assembly of Colleges and Schools of Business (AACSB):  "AACSB - The International Association for Management Education is a not-for-profit corporation of educational institutions, corporations and other organizations devoted to the promotion and improvement of higher education in business administration and management."

American Bar Association (ABA)

Association of American Law Schools (AALS): "The purpose of the association is "the improvement of the legal profession through legal education." It serves as the learned society for law teachers and is legal education's principal representative to the federal government and to other national higher education organizations and learned societies."

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC): "The mission of the Association of American Medical Colleges is to improve the health of the public by enhancing the effectiveness of academic medicine."
 
 

Council of Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA): "The Council of Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) is a non-profit organization of colleges and universities serving as the national advocate for voluntary self-regulation through accreditation."
 
 

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSA):  "MSA members are located in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Panama.  MSA members also include several free-standing American-style institutions abroad that are chartered in one of the states in our region."

Midwestern Higher Education Commission (MHEC): "Established in 1991 as an interstate compact agency, the Midwestern Higher Education Commission (MHEC) is charged with promoting interstate cooperation and resource sharing in higher education. As of July 1999, the member states of MHEC are Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin."
 
 

New England Association of Schools & Colleges, Inc. (NEASC): NEASC serves some 1,800 public and independent schools, colleges and universities in the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont and approximately 80 American/International schools around the globe.

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA): "The Association serves colleges and schools in 19 states -- Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska,  New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming -- and Department of Defense Schools and Navajo Nation schools."
 
 

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS):  "[SACS] accredits more than 12,000 public and private educational institutions,  from prekindergarten through university level,  in 11 states of the Southeastern U.S. and in Latin America."
 
 

Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC): "The Western region covers institutions in California and Hawaii, the territories of Guam, American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Palau, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, the Pacific Basin, and East Asia, and areas of the Pacific and East Asia where American/International schools or colleges may apply to it for service."

Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE): "WICHE facilitates resource sharing and cost effective services among 15 western states and their public and private colleges and universities."