In mid-March the architecture program of Tuskegee University—the historically black university founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881—earned accreditation for the period January 2008 through 2011. The decision comes after the National Architectural Accrediting Board revoked Tuskegee’s accreditation in 2006, the first such occurrence in NAAB’s 69-year history.
NAAB executive director Andrea S. Rutledge says that, in general, revocation is contingent upon “a perfect storm of problems in some combination of physical resources, financial resources, human resources, and information resources, from which you often see corresponding problems in students’ ability to achieve the prescribed level in the student performance criterion.” At Tuskegee, architecture students' dispersal among multiple facilities on campus, as well as deficiencies in digital-design software and curriculum, figured highly into the revocation, according to the NAAB Visiting Team Report.
You have 0 complimentary articles remaining.
Unlimited access + premium benefits for as low as $1.99/month.