A Study On The Higher Education Accreditation Of The U.S.

Since the establishment of higher education accreditation, it has become one of the most important factors in ensuring American higher education developing healthly, it also takes important part in guaranteeing American higher education quality. Analyzing American higher education accreditation policy and summarizing its advanced education quality management experience, from which we can get great reference in our country's higher education reform and development.Taking the theory of pedagogy as reference, on the basis of methods of history, documentation, comparison, this thesis describes the American accreditation policy about why it becomes into being, developing history and how it operates in detail, on the base of which this thesis also analyses the characteristics, function and experience of American accreditation policy, in the end, it puts forward we China should push higher education accreditation and summarizes the basic layout of our accreditation policy.The study shows that American accreditation policy puts higher education quality under the supervision of government, society and the public to meet their requirements. In American accreditation system, government authorizes Committee of Higher Education Accreditation (which is abbreviated as CHEA) or the US Department of Education (which is abbreviated as USDE), CHEA or USDE recognizes institutional or programmatic accreditors, and institutional or programmatic accreditors accredit all kinds of universities and programs. The institutional or programmatic accreditors are non-governmental, independent and non-profit organizations, they accredit universities and programs according to peculiar and individual accreditation criteria, supervise them to ensure and develop higher education quality, they also publish accreditation result to the public.Totally, American higher education accreditation policy is a process of external quality assurance bases on self-study and peer review. The accreditation harmonizes the relationship in higher education, the relationship between institutions , society, and government. It is the primary self-management and the major force to protect the academic values. With the above, the accreditation assures and improves the quality of higher education in the Unites States. Today we China is during the important course of higher education reforming and developing, we should regard the successful...