190329 Establishing a unified accreditation process

Monday, October 27, 2008: 11:20 AM

Randall Cottrell, DEd, CHES , College of Education Criminal Justice, and Human Sevices, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
This session will describe the results of the AAHE/SOPHE multi-year effort to outline the profession-wide efforts to develop a coordinated accreditation system for the health education profession. This session will highlight the lessons learned in the effort from point of view of school health education preparation programs, including the role of NCATE, SABPAC and other school accreditation agencies. These include the need for graduate accreditation processes and articulation agreements between undergraduate and graduate level course work.

Learning Objectives:
Describe the efforts to establish a unified accreditation process for professional preparation programs in school health education.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: D.Ed., CHES
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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