On December 18^th and 20^th, the workshops on AACSB Accreditation Training and Curriculum Construction (phase Ⅲ&Ⅳ) were held in room 204 of LUSM. The workshops were presided over by Yanhai Zhao, director of international accreditation office. About 30 faculty members participated in two workshops.

With a full understanding of the training content on LUSM’s current accreditation progress, business standards of AACSB and the construction process and specific requirements of AOL, the participants put forward concrete questions and suggestions one by one. The suggestions are as following: to formulate policy to combine the School’s assessment of faculty performance on scientific achievements with the relative standards of AACSB; to build teaching teams on the basis of unifying teaching materials to ensure the consistency of teaching effect of each program; to strengthen the application of Blackboard for teachers and students, and to standardize the teaching process with information technology; to strengthen the publicity and penetration of accreditation knowledge through the production and distribution of various publicity materials.

The workshop on AACSB accreditation training and curriculum construction is a series activity for LUSM to encourage its faculty’s engagement and contribution in the alignment with AACSB business standards so as to accelerate the progress of AACSB accreditation. Totally 6 workshops were held in this semester, with the participation of 84 faculty members.

Staff of the international accreditation office will analyze and integrate the suggestions and opinions put forward by participants on scientific research achievements identification, teaching material unification, team building, Blackboard application and accreditation publicity. And will continue to cooperate with the teaching departments, research institutes, IT and laboratory service center to standardize and upload the teaching materials on the Blackboard for a smooth process of curriculum management and AOL implement.