Assessment of the Sustainability of University Academic Programs for the Accreditation: A Complex Challenge

The accreditation of university academic programs is a critical process in ensuring the quality and standards of higher education. A significant component of this process is the assignment of reference lecturers who make these academic programs sustainable. The problem of determining the appropriate...

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Published in:Education sciences Vol. 15; no. 2; p. 119
Main Authors: La Scalia, Giada, Mancini, Simona, Gambino, Roberto, Ciaccio, Maria
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.02.2025
Subjects:
Academic Education
Accreditation
Algorithms
College Applicants
College Faculty
College teachers
Colleges & universities
Decision Making
Departments
Didacticism
Distance Education
Education, Higher
Educational Assessment
Educational Experience
Educational Quality
Efficiency
Environmental sustainability
Guidelines
Higher education
Instructional Improvement
integer programming model
Job Satisfaction
Lecture Method
Mathematical optimization
Optimization techniques
Public speaking
Quality Assurance
Quality control
reference lecturer assignment
Reference Materials
Resource Allocation
Self evaluation
Student Participation
Students
Sustainability
sustainable didactic offer
Teacher Effectiveness
Teaching
World Problems
Italy
ISSN:2227-7102, 2227-7102
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Summary:The accreditation of university academic programs is a critical process in ensuring the quality and standards of higher education. A significant component of this process is the assignment of reference lecturers who make these academic programs sustainable. The problem of determining the appropriate faculty members to accredit university academic programs is a multifaceted challenge. The selection of reference lecturers for accreditation is influenced by various factors, including their academic positions, the subject area of their sectors according to the bachelor’s or master’s degree in which they are delivered, and the number of students enrolled compared to the degree classes. Moreover, the evolving nature of higher education, given its increased emphasis on interdisciplinary topics, further complicates this assessment due also to the presence of professors or researchers coming from other departments. The development of an optimization algorithm capable of simultaneously considering all the constraints of the problem is therefore needed to address these challenges and achieve to a balanced approach for a sustainable didactic offer. The optimization algorithm works by maximizing the number of lecturers available as reference lecturers for other departments and minimizing those needed from other departments and from external teaching contracts. The problem of reference lecturers does not refer to the department alone but to the entire atheneum.
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ISSN:2227-7102
2227-7102
DOI:10.3390/educsci15020119