In-Person Seminars

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Looking for an engaging professional learning experience to advance your work in accreditation and program improvement? Try an in-person AAQEP seminar!

These 2-day interactive events either are offered at the national AAQEP Institute in September or may be brought to your campus as a custom offering or consulting engagement.

Framing an Accreditation Self-Study

Learn to select, curate, and ensure the quality of measures used in a self-study so that you can move forward with confidence.
Note: This seminar incorporates the content from AAQEP’s Making the Case for Quality and Ensuring Data Quality and Equity online workshops.

During this 2-day seminar, you will learn to:

  • Select and curate the best evidence set to document your program’s quality
  • Document program processes that ensure quality and stakeholder engagement
  • Increase input from graduates and their employers
  • Attend to data quality characteristics—fairness, trustworthiness, validity, and reliability—for both qualitative and quantitative measures
  • Examine the data you collect to make sure it can inform sound decisions
  • Cultivate shared professional judgment of candidates' performance with your school-based partners and other stakeholders
Designing Assessment Systems for Continuous Improvement

Discover how a comprehensive assessment system enables data-driven decisions that elevate program performance. Outline and articulate the assessment system for your program, learn to identify the qualities of your measures, and develop an actionable analysis plan in order to address the components of Standard 3 by reflecting on the data for Standards 1 and 2.

During this 2-day seminar, you will learn to:

  • Describe what an assessment system is and does
  • Identify the information sought for continuous program improvement
  • Create an inventory of your assessment sources
  • Map identified assessment sources to AAQEP standards
  • Identify gaps in assessment sources
  • Determine the needed analysis to ensure quality of measures
Data Visualization and Storytelling

Stories help make sense of the world around us. Learn to bring your program's data to life through a quality assurance narrative using data storytelling and visuals that build understanding among your stakeholders to support improvement and evaluation.

During this 2-day seminar, you will learn about:

  • The processes, components, and benefits of good data storytelling
  • Visual display options for different kinds of data
  • Creating your own data storyboard
  • Matching narrative to your visual data to connect the dots for readers
  • Using data storytelling with visuals for accreditation reporting and continuous improvement
Leading Quality Improvement

Designed for individuals looking to build or improve their quality assurance processes, this seminar brings an improvement science lens to the use of data and to leading and building a culture of change through continuous improvement. Leave with fresh strategies for engaging your program and stakeholders effectively.

During this 2-day seminar, you will learn about:

  • Features of a good quality assurance system
  • The core concepts of improvement science
  • The importance of focusing on the right data
  • Building and leading a culture of continuous improvement
  • Understanding the change process
  • Connecting your continuous improvement work with your quality assurance system
Mapping Your Quality Assurance Process

Learn to use process mapping, a visual representation of workflow, to help you identify issues and areas of improvement in your assessment system. Process maps facilitate team brainstorming, decision-making, and project planning, while also providing documentation that translates into action plans, new-hire onboarding, and plans for program improvement and innovation.

During this 2-day seminar, you will:

  • Identify the components of your assessment system
  • Learn how to map simple and complex components of your assessment system
  • Create process maps to explain your assessment system to stakeholders
  • Identify gaps or inefficiencies in your current processes
  • Identify where and how stakeholders can engage in data quality review
Making the Case for Reaccreditation: Leveraging Learning Throughout the Accreditation Term

Maintaining momentum after accreditation requires keeping up and updating the routines and practices that led to an affirmative accreditation decision. Join other AAQEP-accredited programs to reflect on the successes and challenges of your quality assurance work, discuss ongoing improvement efforts over the 7-year accreditation cycle, and map out your processes for maintaining program excellence.

In 2 days of facilitated workshops, you will identify strengths, needs, and inefficiencies in your current quality assurance processes in order to develop an action plan and schedule to:

  • Maintain curricular alignment to standards
  • Develop and refine effective measures to ensure useful data collection and analysis
  • Use the annual reporting process to build a culture of assessment
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure quality preparation and engagement with state and local needs
Getting Started: New Leaders for Quality Assurance and Accreditation (formerly "Emerging Leaders")

This seminar supports the professional development of faculty and staff who are new to their leadership role in accreditation. Learn alongside peers who “do accreditation” as you develop skills for organizing and leading your program's quality assurance work.

During this 2-day seminar, you will learn about:

  • Common practices, processes, concepts, and vocabulary for quality assurance
  • A conceptual framework for approaching program evaluation and accreditation
  • Where to begin, and how to prioritize and lead the work
  • How to identify and deploy key resources, stakeholders, and actions
  • Effective ways to organize the people and the process
  • How to manage data collection, analysis, and reporting

Passage Preparation - the 2026 AAQEP Professional Learning Sponsor

Seminar Calendar

October 15-16, 2026

Mount St. Mary's University (MD), Frederick Campus

Data Visualization and Storytelling

 

Interested in hosting a seminar on your campus?

Contact Christine DeGregory


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