| Chapter 1: | Africa's 21st-Century Renaissance in Higher Education: The Need for Strategic Planning |
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Figure 1.2. Strategic management map for the school of business at VFU.
primacy of students, faculty, employers, alumni, advisory boards, global forces, the local community, and ministries of education in respective African countries is notably clear. Equally important is the vision of the business school's dean, working closely with the university's central administration.
Student Learning Goals, Outcomes,
and Assessment Processes
At the core of student learning goals and outcomes is this question: Have our students achieved the learning, knowledge, and skills appropriate to the degrees they pursued and earned at our institution? In current parlance, this is called assurance of learning (AoL). At the core of AoL is a recognition that student learning is, and should always be, the central activity of higher education. In keeping with the AoL standards of AACSB International—and in pursuit of AACSB reaccreditation (which is called “maintenance of accreditation”)—schools of business in North America tend to have the following core undergraduate AoL goals. African business schools can easily adopt these goals for their