Configure AACSB Data
This article explains how to set up each system with the right configuration to populate data into AACSB tables in Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR, Faculty180).
How does AACSB reporting work
Interfolio will now help run reports. The following actions will need to be completed. In order to ensure the AACSB reports are correctly reporting data, a grouping for courses and assigned AACSB must be created as the accrediting body in FAR. Check out the “How to prepare for reporting?” accordion below for more information.
- Enter data into the system
- Verify that data.
- Then contact help@interfolio.com to have reports run and delivered.
For more information on what needs to be included, check out the information under How to Verify Data and Request AACSB Reports > Request a Report at the bottom of the page.
How to prepare for reporting
Create Course Groupings
In order to ensure the AACSB reports are correctly reporting data, a grouping for courses and assigned AACSB must be created as the accrediting body in FAR.
- Navigate to Program/Course Groupings under Setup on the navigation bar.
- Click the Add button at the bottom of the page.
- Fill out the Program/Course Groupings Form.
- Click the checkbox adjacent the Required for Accreditation, then select AACSB from the dropdown.
- Click the checkbox adjacent the Required for Accreditation, then select AACSB from the dropdown.
Check Configuration and Data
Being able to populate the data into the AACSB tables means setting up the system with the right configuration from the beginning.
- Use standard sections to capture Degrees on the Profile Form and Scholarly Activities or Creative Productions on the Activity Form.
- Ensure standard AACSB Activity Classifications are set to show in the right sections to faculty and that they are active. As faculty members report their activities, they will select which is the appropriate category.
- Create/review the Input Classifications form for AACSB
- Update Activity Classifications to show in the right sections to faculty. As faculty members report their activities, they will select which is the appropriate category.
- Set up the course/program groupings. Users need to have course groupings in order to populate Table 15.2 correctly. This is an AACSB requirement.
- Determine the plan for populating data.
Determine the Plan for Data Population
- An administrator will load teaching data via the Courses Taught base data file.
- An administrator will load most AACSB Faculty Classifications via the Faculty Classification base data file.
- An administrator will update other AACSB Faculty Classifications via Input Faculty Classifications on the Administration page.
Alternative approach
Push a Faculty Classification form with AACSB to Faculty for them to fill out
- Faculty members will populate intellectual contribution data and AACSB Activity Classifications via a manual entry in the Scholarly Activities and Creative Production section. Faculty can use an existing integration or upload a Bibtex/Ris file.
Alternative approach
If the scholarship data is available, talk to your Project Manager or Account Manager about having that data loaded for faculty. There may be a charge.
Active sections, Activity Classifications, and Faculty Classifications listed in the system to populate the AACSB reports
Active Sections
| Sections for 2020 Standards | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Section Name: | Table 3.1 | Table 3.2 | Table 8.1 |
| Degrees | YES |
NO |
NO |
| Teaching | YES |
YES |
NO |
| Scholarship | NO |
NO |
YES |
| Grants | NO |
NO |
YES |
| Sections for 2017 Standards | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Section Name: | Table 2.1 | Table 2.2 | Table 15.1 | Table 15.2 |
| Degrees | NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
| Teaching | NO |
NO |
YES |
YES |
| Scholarship | YES |
YES |
NO |
NO |
| Grants | YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
Faculty Classifications
| Faculty Classifications for Report Year 2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty Classification Title: | Table 3.1 | Table 3.2 | Table 8.1 |
| AACSB: Basis for Qualification | YES |
NO |
NO |
| AACSB: Faculty Qualification Group | YES |
YES |
NO |
| AACSB: Faculty Sufficiency | YES |
YES |
NO |
| AACSB: Percent Time Devoted to Mission | YES |
NO |
NO |
| AACSB: Professional Responsibilities | YES |
NO |
NO |
| AACSB: Faculty FTE | NO |
NO |
YES |
| AACSB: Discipline | YES |
NO |
YES |
| AACSB: Specialty | YES |
NO |
NO |
| Faculty Classifications for Report Year 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty Classification Title: | Table 2.1 | Table 2.2 | Table 15.1 | Table 15.2 |
| AACSB: Basis for Qualification | NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
| AACSB: Faculty Qualification Group | NO |
NO |
YES |
YES |
| AACSB: Faculty Sufficiency | NO |
NO |
YES |
YES |
| AACSB: Percent Time Devoted to Mission | NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
| AACSB: Professional Responsibilities | NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
| AACSB: Faculty FTE | YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
Activity Classifications
| Activity Classifications for Report Year 2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Activity Classification Title: | Table 3.1 | Table 3.2 | Table 8.1 |
| AACSB: Competitive Research Award | NO |
NO |
YES |
| AACSB: Scholarly Type | NO |
NO |
YES |
| AACSB: Intellectual Contributions Review Type*** | NO |
NO |
YES |
| Activity Classifications for Report Year 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity Classification Title: | Table 2.1 | Table 2.2 | Table 15.1 | Table 15.2 |
| AACSB: Book Type | YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
| AACSB: Competitive Research Award | YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
| AACSB: Scholarly Type | YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
| AACSB: Professional Practice Standards or Public Policy | YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
| AACSB: Intellectual Contributions Review Type*** | YES |
NO |
NO |
NO |
For former digital measures users, when mapping the Activity Classification for AACSM Intellectual Contributions Review Type, Digital Measures has a field labeled "Was this peer-reviewed/referred?" with Yes or No options. Business school administrators (Dean/Associate Dean) will need to determine which value in FAR to map this to, either Blind, Peer Reviewed, or Non-blind, Peer Reviewed. In this case, please follow these rules:
- Map Digital Measures “Was this peer-reviewed/referred?” = Yes to FAR “Intellectual Contributions: Review Type” = “Non-blind, Peer Reviewed” or “Blind, Peer Reviewed.”
- It is recommended to map: Peer Reviewed = Non-blind peer review.
- Map Digital Measures “Was this peer-reviewed/referred” = No/Blank to FAR “Intellectual Contributions: Review Type” = “Not Reviewed.”
What data needs to be maintained and by whom for each of the reports to build properly
| Report | Data to be maintained |
|---|---|
| Teaching (15.1 / 3.1, 15.2 / 3.2) |
|
| Faculty Qualifications (15.2 / 3.2) | One year of qualifications |
| Scholarship (2.1 / 8.1, 2-2) | Five years of scholarship |
Institutional responsibilities - capturing AACSB data: Faculty Classifications
Setting faculty classifications will be the responsibility of whoever is managing these reports (typically someone in the business school/college).
- Institutions can bulk upload AACSB-specific Faculty Classifications.
- Institutions can rely on Faculty to self-report on these classifications by making sure there is a Faculty Classification Input form created.
- Once the input form is created, the faculty input workflow will have to be initiated.
- Administrators can enter AACSB Faculty Classification manually by following Administration > Administration > Input Faculty Classifications > Input Classifications. From here, administrators will see a form that will allow them to enter Faculty Classifications for a single faculty member or multiple faculty members manually.
Note that the Activity Classifications and Faculty Classifications in standard configuration have been labeled specifically for AACSB and should not be changed by the institution's Point of Contact.
Institutional responsibilities - capturing AACSB data: Activity Classifications
Activity Classifications are typically captured via an initiated activity input period or standard faculty activity input.
AACSB Activity Classifications can be set so that only business faculty see these items when entering activities.
Program and Course Groupings Requirement
Before creating programs/course groupings, course prefixes and courses must be set up in FAR.
Institutions will need to have course groupings in order to populate tables 15.1 and 15.2 correctly. This is a requirement of AACSB. The Program/Course Groupings feature allows institutions to create programs (or course groupings) that can be reported as related items. For example, an institution can designate an MBA program, designate which courses are related to that particular MBA program, and then create reports isolating MBA courses and the related faculty members.
How to get data in the system
| Data | Entry Method |
|---|---|
| Teaching | Courses Taught base data |
| Degrees |
|
| Scholarship |
|
| Faculty Qualifications | Faculty Classification base data upload AND manual data entry |
| Program Course Groupings | Manual entry |
How to start using AACSB reporting
As mentioned above, the most important thing is to get specific data into the system. Data on faculty members and their career activities are needed. This includes:
- Scholarship
- Courses Taught
- Degrees
- Faculty Qualifications
AACSB also needs to know:
- Rank: to count how many faculty of each rank at a school
- Degrees for Scholarship: A record of where faculty attended school
- Peer review status for scholarships: to determine the rigor of the scholarship
How to Verify Data and Request AACSB Reports
Our number one tip for preparing for AACSB reporting is to check data. This article explains how users can use reports in Interfolio to prepare for AACSB reporting. The following in-product reports will help prepare for AACSB reports. Users can drill down to just the count level for all these reports, and reports can be sorted in-product to show faculty with counts and without. Administrators can then drill down to individual faculty within the reports.
In order to ensure the AACSB reports are correctly reporting data, a grouping for courses and assigned AACSB must be created as the accrediting body in FAR.
Teaching metrics
Verify that teaching and program data has been loaded for all faculty with the right information and the right courses have been added to the right programs.
Report: Activity Input
- Filter on the Teaching section
- Filter on the Teaching metric
- Use the Program or Activity Classification filter to check program-level data
Check out our article on how to Create an Activity Input Report and our video walkthrough on the Activity Input Report: Teaching Metrics
Intellectual contributions
To verify that any scholarship entered by faculty has been classified appropriately for reporting purposes.
Report: Activity Input
- Filter on Grants
- Use the Activity Classification filter to check for Competitive Research
Report: Scholarly Activities
- Filter by scholarly subtype
- Filter on Activity Classification for Intellectual Review Type or Scholarly Type
- Drill down to add the Activity Classifications as columns
Check out our article about Scholarly Activity Reports for more information.
Other reports
| Table | Details |
|---|---|
| Table 3.1 (Faculty Sufficiency and Qualifications) | Faculty Classifications for Faculty Sufficiency, Normal Professional Responsibilities, and Percent of Time Devoted to Mission for Each Faculty Qualification Group. Date of First Appointment to the School which is populated from the Year Started field in the faculty classification file and Highest Degree, Year Earned, which is populated from the Degree section on the Profile Form. Teaching data is pulled from the Courses Taught section |
| Table 3.2 (Deployment of Participating and Supporting Faculty By Qualification Status In Support Of Degree Programs) | The Faculty Classification for Faculty Sufficiency and Course/Program Groupings with metric numbers from the Courses Taught for those Courses. |
| Table 8.1 (Summary of Intellectual Contributions) | Activity Classifications entered by or on behalf of faculty will populate Table 8.1. That information is drawn from the scholarship section of Faculty Activity Reporting based on the Activity Classification = Intellectual Contribution Review Type and AACSB Scholarly Type |
Request a report
To request reports please submit a request to help@interfolio.com asking that a help ticket for the report be created. This request should include:
- The date range of the reports needed and the time frame desired to be reported on.
- The units and/or disciplines of faculty to be included in reports
- Which teaching programs are desired: By default, all programs and course groupings are included.
- Which teaching metrics are desired: Tables related to teaching can be pulled using enrollment, student credit hours, teaching load, or course sections.
- The Scholarship status: By default, the following statuses are included
- Accepted
- In-press
- Completed
Check out our AACSB Overview article for more information.