{"id":11215,"date":"2017-11-03T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2025-01-30T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T16:22:58","slug":"interior-architecture-reaccreditation-recommendation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archdesign.utk.edu\/interior-architecture-reaccreditation-recommendation\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Architecture Recommended for Reaccreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"
In October, the School of Interior Architecture hosted a team representing the Council for Interior Design Accreditation<\/a> for an onsite review toward reaccreditation. After the three-day review, the CIDA team is recommending the program for reaccreditation, which is a six-year period. This important milestone leads to a final decision by the CIDA board in April.<\/p>\n The CIDA onsite team noted 16 areas of strength, including these:<\/p>\n Of the 154 measures used for accreditation, the CIDA team noted four areas for improvement, including industry-specific guidelines and broadening the range of materials used in projects.<\/p>\n In 2011, the school earned a six-year accreditation from CIDA.\u00a0 For reaccreditation, CIDA\u00a0requires a three-day onsite review by a visiting team of three practitioners\/educators to determine whether a program meets its standards for interior design\/architecture education.\u00a0 A significant element in this peer-review process is evaluating student work to determine achievement levels as an indicator of the adequacy of the required curriculum.\u00a0 Student learning is a primary gauge of educational quality and is evaluated for demonstration of knowledge, understanding, ability, skills, appropriate application and competency.<\/p>\n The team also considers academic and professional qualifications of the faculty; adequacy of the facilities; administrative structure of the program and its relationship to the institution as a whole; and program assessment methods.<\/p>\n The team toured the building, reviewed student work, met with faculty and interviewed students.<\/p>\n In addition to the CIDA accreditation, the School of Interior Architecture earned a nine-year accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Art and Design in 2011.\u00a0 For information about the college\u2019s accreditations, visit archdesign.utk.edu\/academics\/accreditation\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In October, the School of Interior Architecture hosted a team representing the Council for Interior Design Accreditation for an onsite review toward reaccreditation. After the three-day review, the CIDA team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":11352,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[150,76,24,148,29,34,21,6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accreditation","category-exhibits","category-faculty-staff","category-interior-architecture","category-interior-design","category-matthews-d","category-news","category-school-of-interior-architecture","category-students"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n