Impact Criteria for Faculty Career Development

Schools can bolster their impact by refining their faculty qualification criteria and reinforcing their support systems as they work toward accreditation. Business faculty often find their schools’ expectations for societal impact unclear, especially in relation to their intellectual contributions.
Guided by AACSB accreditation standards, Aalborg University Business School adopted more comprehensive faculty development strategies to generate impact in four areas: academic, educational, business, and public.
The success of this strategy rests on taking three steps:
- clarifying criteria for promotion and tenure
- adopting data collection systems
- assigning staff managers to support faculty’s impact activities.