This interview took place in two parts:  right before and right after they appeared before the ABHE Commission on Accreditation for a major decision. Agron & Associates, Inc. is a team of accreditation consultants that, since 1999, have specialized in helping Bible colleges achieve accreditation.  Our mission is to raise up Christian colleges in quality, quantity and reputation.

A discussion of how to qualify to grant F-1 study visas, how to apply, how to opperate the program, and where to find resources Agron & Associates, Inc. is a team of accreditation consultants that, since 1999, have specialized in helping Biblecolleges achieve accreditation.  Our mission is to raise up Christian colleges in quality, quantity and reputation.

One of my research areas for my dissertation was the types of instructional methods that can achieve character qualities (e.g, affective objectives, habits, will, ...).  I saw that the visual and performing arts are ideal for impacting the heart.  They can be used to mitigate some of the weaknesses of the traditional academic model.  Even more exiciting was to realize how the visual and performing arts could become an outstanding tool for communicating exegesis in a manner that would draw and impact hearers.  I propose the following model: 1. Students perpare an exegesis.  From that same exegesis, students create a      A. sermon      B. Sunday school lesson      C. piece of visual art (e.g., comic book, photo display with captions, slide show, chalk talk)      D. piece of performing art (e.g., radio drama, pupet show, You-tube video) 2. Repeat the process often enough to make the new skills stick.

Student services are important for student retention, student development, and cultivating future donors (i.e., alumni who look back fondly on their college experience).

Board Development (Personnel Committee) Recruiting the Right Board Members Orienting New Board Members Ongoing Training Evaluating Board Performance and Individual Members

Listen to this (and other material) as a podcast at www.accreditation101.com.  If you are a board member, you have a great honor, and a great responsibility.  Certainly you would be volunteering your time, talent, and treasure because you see your school’s ministry as something worth doing for God.  Occasionally, a school has board members who are not good stewards of this important responsibility.  Maybe they did not realize what they were volunteering for.  Maybe they were just appointed.  Maybe they don’t give much time, effort, or money because they do not see service to the school as something worth doing for God, or maybe there are even occasionally members of a board who are more interested in building their own kingdom than God’s kingdom.   Can you see why some presidents are tempted to say, “Get, give, or get off”?  (Get being get money.)  So how does a school end up with the outstanding board members who understand their purpose and energetically fulfill their stewardship?  The key can be a personnel committee that is tasked with board development.  And that is the topic of chapter 8 in our board handbook.  The chapter deals with how to recruit the right types of members, orienting and training them, and evaluating both the board and individual members.

Today I am replacing chapters 3-5 with chapters 6-7.  Chapter six deals with the relationship of the board with the administration.  It is important that they understand each other's unique role (and that neither usurps the authority of the other).  Chapter seven deals with various policies.  I welcome your feedback.  After all chapters are reviewed, this workbook will appear in the online store at www.accreditation101.com. 

Organizations suffer when board members or administrators usurp the role of the other.

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