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2009 Conditions for Accreditation National Architectural Accrediting Board, Inc. maintain an organizational chart describing the administrative structure of the program and position descriptions describing the responsibilities of the administrative staff. • Governance: The program must demonstrate that all faculty, staff, and students have equitable opportunities to participate in program and institutional governance. The APR must include the following: A description of the administrative structure for the program, the academic unit within which it is located, and the institution. A description of the program’s administrative structure. A description of the opportunities for involvement in governance, including curriculum development, by faculty, staff, and students in the accredited degree program. A list of other degree programs, if any, offered in the same administrative unit as the accredited architecture degree program. I.2.3 Physical Resources: The program must demonstrate that it provides physical resources that promote student learning and achievement in a professional degree program in architecture. This includes, but is not limited to the following: • Space to support and encourage studio-based learning. • Space to support and encourage didactic and interactive learning. • Space to support and encourage the full range of faculty roles and responsibilities including preparation for teaching, research, mentoring, and student advising. The APR must include the following: A general description, together with labeled 8-1/2" x 11" plans of the physical plant, including seminar rooms, lecture halls, studios, offices, project review and exhibition areas, libraries, computer facilities, workshops, and research areas. A description of any changes to the physical facilities either under construction or proposed. A description of the hardware, software, networks, and other computer resources available institution-wide to students and faculty including those resources dedicated to the professional architecture program. Identification of any significant problem that impacts the operation or services, with a brief explanation of plans by the program or institutional to address it. I.2.4 Financial Resources: An accredited degree program must demonstrate that it has access to appropriate institutional and financial resources to support student learning and achievement. The APR must include the following: Program budgets: • Current fiscal year report(s) showing revenue and expenses from all sources. • Forecasts for revenue from all sources and expenses for at least two years beyond the current fiscal year. • Comparative reports that show revenue from all sources and expenditures for each year since the last accreditation visit from all sources including endowments, scholarships, one-time capital expenditures, and development activities. 15
2009 Conditions for Accreditation National Architectural Accrediting Board, Inc. • Data on annual expenditures and total capital investment per student, both undergraduate and graduate, compared to the expenditures and investments by other professional degree programs in the institution. Institutional Financial Issues: • A brief narrative describing: o Pending reductions or increases in enrollment and plans for addressing these changes. o Pending reductions or increases in funding and plans for addressing these changes. o Changes in funding models for faculty, instruction, overhead, or facilities since the last visit and plans for addressing these changes (include tables if appropriate). o Any other financial issues the program and/or the institution may be facing. I.2.5 Information Resources: The accredited program must demonstrate that all students, faculty, and staff have convenient access to literature, information, visual, and digital resources that support professional education in the field of architecture. Further, the accredited program must demonstrate that all students, faculty, and staff have access to architecture librarians and visual resources professionals who provide information services that teach and develop research, evaluative, and critical thinking skills necessary for professional practice and lifelong learning. The APR must include the following [NOTE: This section may best be prepared by the architecture librarian and professional in charge of visual resources]: A description of the institutional context and administrative structure of the library and visual resources. An assessment of the library and visual resource collections, services, staff, facilities, and equipment that does the following: o Describes the content, extent and formats represented in the current collection including number of titles and subject areas represented. o Evaluates the degree to which information resources and services support the mission, planning, curriculum, and research specialties of the program. o Assesses the quality, currency, suitability, range, and quantity of resources in all formats, (traditional/print and electronic). o Demonstrates sufficient funding to enable continuous collection growth. o Identifies any significant problem that affects the operation or services of the libraries, visual resources collections, and other information resource facilities. 16
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