the international accreditation panel of EQUIS – European Quality Improvement System – visited ACEM to conduct a three-day assessment for
reaccreditation of our college. Headed by Prof. Peter Little, former
Vice President of Queensland University of Technology in Australia, the
EQUIS panel for reaccreditation assessment consisted of Prof. Sofia
Salgado-Pinto, Dean of Catolica Porto Business School, Catholic
University of Portugal, Prof. Edward J. Snape, Dean of HKBU Business
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Donatella De Vita, Global Director of Training Department, Pirelli Tyre, Italy.
SJTU Party Secretary Jiang Sixian, Dean of Graduate School Wang Yaguang,
Director of Liberal Arts Department Wu Jiannan and other leaders of
relevant departments of SJTU, as well as ACEM Dean Chen Fangruo,
Associate Deans Tian Xinmin, Jing Runtian, Wu Wenfeng, Yin Haitao and
Liu Shaoxuan and other college leaders participated in the roundtable on
the accreditation.During the three-day on-site assessment, the panel
had 15 meetings with university and college leaders, members of ACEM
Advisory Committee, employers, alumni, representatives of teachers and
students, and main leaders of various programs and functional
departments of ACEM, focusing on the ten areas, namely ACEM’s
development strategy and goals, teaching programs, student development,
faculty, academic research, executive training, resource management,
level of internationalization, ethics, social responsibility and
sustainability, and corporate relations. At the same time, the panel
reviewed in detail the accreditation materials presented by ACEM.During
the discussions on accreditation, Dean Chen Fangruo introduced to the
panel the future development strategy and ideas of the college. Based on
the strategy of building a “comprehensive, research-based and
international” college, ACEM will create a “business ecosystem” and
establish a multiple evaluation system through the industry research
platform, thus impelling the business school to return to the origin of
the trinity of research, teaching and business practice.
Through comprehensive assessment, the panel agreed that ACEM enjoys a good
international reputation, boasts excellent teachers and students, and
has achieved fruitful results in its internationalization strategy. At
the same time, the panel sang highly of and gave good wishes to a series
of reforms carried out by the college, especially the development
policy of “be grounded in China’s management practice, promote social
and economic development, and improve the world’s management theory”.
ACEM, as a leading business school in Asia, is expected to become a
world-class business school as soon as possible.Dean Chen Fangruo
finally expressed his gratitude to the EQUIS reaccreditation panel for
its three-day reaccreditation assessment and its recognition of the
development of the college in various areas over the past five years.
The intensive work, efficient style and professional guidance of the
panel impressed our teachers and students.
The college will continue to forge ahead with the valuable suggestions and opinions given by the
panel and in combination with our actual work, marching toward the
established goal of building a world-class business school.After the
assessment, Dean Chen Fangruo and Associate Dean Yin Haitao accompanied
the panel to visit Pao Sui-Loong Library, New Upper Hall, Middle Hall,
as well as classrooms, laboratories and other teaching hardware and
facilities.EQUIS – European Quality Improvement System – is an
international quality accreditation system of EFMD for business schools
and one of the two most authoritative assessment systems in the world
for management education. ACEM obtained its first EQUIS accreditation in
2008 and the five-year EQUIS accreditation of the highest standard in
2014.
