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Accreditation>Volunteer Resources>Committees>CIRC

Continuous Improvement Review Committee

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Purpose

The Continuous Improvement Review Committee (CIRC) oversees processes for continuation of business accreditation to ensure consistency of Accreditation Standards application and equity of recommendations across teams and across programs reviewed.

Structure

CIRC is composed of a minimum of twelve members and a maximum of 18 members plus a CIRC Chair and CIRC Vice Chair appointed by the Vice Chair-Chair Elect (who shall preside as Board Chair during the year for which the appointments are made). The CIRC Chair is a business administrator from an AACSB accredited Organization. CIRC members may be present and former business administrators from AACSB accredited Organizations. Normally, CIRC members serve staggered three-year terms, up to a maximum of two consecutive terms. Normally, the CIRC Chair serves two consecutive one-year terms.

Chair
Faye Gilbert, University of Maine

Vice Chair
Irineu Gianesi, Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa

Members

Tom Begley, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
James Brodzinski, Valparaiso University
Per Cramer, School of Business, Economics, and Law, University of Gothenburg
Te-Kuang Chou, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Scott Johnson, University of Michigan-Flint
Shohreh Kaynama, Towson University
Millicent Lownes-Jackson, Tennessee State University
Sylvia Maxfield, Providence College
David Oglethorpe, The University of Sheffield
Daniel Pullin, Texas Christian University
Anne Sinnot, Dublin City University 
Ira Solomon, Tulane University
Michael Solt, California State University, Long Beach
Leonard Waverman, McMaster University
Ira Weiss, North Carolina State University
Gregory Whitwell, The University of Sydney

Staff Liaison
Maria Baltar (maria.baltar@aacsb.edu)

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