Five Dimensions of Quality: A Common Sense Guide to Accreditation and Accountability

Praise for Five Dimensions of Quality Readers of Linda Suskie s new book, Five Dimensions of Quality, will embrace assessment and accreditation as creative and forward–looking means for effecting cultural change and improving quality. For Suskie, it is common sense to adopt an organizational discipline that leads to improved quality. Lewis Evitts Thayne, president, Lebanon Valley College Linda s accreditation and assessment experience, melded with her higher education research, provide readers with guidance, examples, and references relevant not only to accreditation but, more broadly, to effective leadership and management practices. Anyone concerned with strengthening higher education, or seeking to enhance institutional effectiveness, will find Five Dimensions of Quality to be an invaluable resource. Elizabeth Ann Whiteman, director of accreditation and strategic initiatives, Carnegie Mellon University For years, Linda Suskie has been the voice that synthesizes and explains. What she does best is to integrate ideas, strategies, and good practice across research, time, and people and then distill them into a readable, powerful framework that is meaningful for those new to accreditation, for those in leadership seeking to understand how accreditation activities fit into strategic priorities, and for those that want to get back to the basics and see anew what makes accreditation efforts meaningful, useful, reasonable, and workable. Lynn Priddy, provost, National American University