International Profession Certification Association

IPA carries out its mission adhering to the following objectives:

To educate individual trustees and boards on matters that affects their institutional oversight responsibilities

To promote wider understanding of and appreciation for citizen leadership and lay governance as the only effective ways to ensure the quality and independence of American higher education

To advance the philosophy that all elected or appointed trustees serve in the public trust and should consider themselves trustees of higher education as a whole

To strengthen the relationship between trustees and chief executives in the fulfillment of their distinct yet complementary responsibilities

To stimulate cooperation with public-policy makers, government agencies, and private organizations that have a stake in the effective governance and quality of colleges and universities

To identify and study emerging public-policy issues of concern to higher education by providing forums for their discussion and by encouraging appropriate member initiative.

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Many factors persuade and reveal the quality of education. IPA reviews the effectiveness of an institution’s educational programs by evaluating the infrastructure that supports the delivery of programs as well as educational results, including student achievement.
Eligibility:
To be eligible for IPA accreditation, an institution must be legally established, licensed by the state or government. To demonstrate financial stability, the school must have been in continuous operation for a minimum of TWO year prior to application for accreditation and have graduated at least one class of students from its longest program.
The institute should submit Self Evaluation Report, The SER includes questions related to all phases of an institution’s operation.

IPA Mission

International Profession Certification Association is the global organization for flexible learning and teaching deriving its position from: 1、the unique knowledge and experience of its members throughout the world 2、expertise from this in development and use of new methodologies and emerging technologies An important aim of IPA is to promote intercultural co-operation and understanding through flexible learning and teaching throughout the world. Further Aims 1、to contribute to the development of new methodologies and technologies in order to improve lifelong learning; 2、to foster international collaboration in flexible learning and teaching; 3、to support and develop networks for flexible learning and teaching at national, regional and global levels; 4、to encourage the development of good practice and standards in flexible learning and teaching.

Harvard

Boston

Stanford

Yale

New York

Cornell