Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
[Introduction]
2021. The date for the JHJ visit was scheduled on 02/27/22-03/01/22. Namely, the external program review team (PRT) includes:
The Jesse H. Jones (JHJ) School of Business, located in a three-story, 76,000-square- foot building completed in 1998, houses its undergraduate and graduate students. It was the first business school at an HBCU to be accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (now AACSB International), and it has been named one of the “Best Business Schools” by the Princeton Review. The School is consistently one of the highly ranked business schools from a public HBCU in the U.S. News & World Report rankings.
Chair of PRT - Dr. Firku Boghossian, Dean, Morgan State University
Member of PRT – Dr. Joy T. Smith, Dean ., Elizabeth City State University
Member of PRT – Dr. Emmanuel O. Omojokun, Dean Virginia State University
AACSB Staff Liaison – Ms. Rachel Dixon-Zudar, Manager of Accreditation Services, AACSB International [Preparation and Development of the AACSB Self-Study Report] The JHJ School AACSB Steering Committee was formed in Fall 2020. The Committee met 6 times in fall 2020, 7 times in spring 2021, at least 6 times in the summer 2021 to plan the content, collect information, assign the task/ domain area for writing, review and modify the relevant information, drop the duplicates, merge the similarities, improve the content, and discuss/resolve the conflicts to prepare the final version of AACSB self-study report. Among these aforementioned tedious and time- consuming tasks, one of the important decisions made in fall 2020 was the adoption of the 2020 standards which was approved by AACSB on
[Background]
Academic programs in the JHJ School of Business had their beginning in the Department of Business Administration in the College of Arts and Sciences in 1947. The Department was elevated to Division status in 1950 and School status in 1955. The School achieved its initial accreditation by the AACSB in 1968, the first of the HBCU’s to receive this designation. After a period in the 1980s in which the School’s AACSB accreditation was not reaffirmed, it again met the standards in 2002 when a 10-year accreditation was granted. In 2012 the School achieved accreditation for five additional years; and in April 2017, its accreditation was reaffirmed until the 2021-2022 academic year. As a result, a new application for AACSB accreditation extension was made on Spring
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