NASPAA review team pays accreditation visit A team representing the LBJ School's accrediting organization, the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, paid a visit to the LBJ School during March. During their visit, team members met with students, faculty, and administrators to discuss the School's Self-Study Report. The report, submitted to NASPAA last fall by a committee headed by Assistant Professor Jacqueline Angel, is used by the accrediting organization to review the School's strengths and weaknesses. According to Associate Dean Leigh Boske, certain basic accreditation standards have to be met in terms of curriculum and minimum core faculty, but the NASPAA site-visit team is mostly interested in a school's vision. "They want to ensure that an adequate process exists by which mission and progress can be monitored and evaluated," he said. The LBJ School is reviewed by NASPAA every seven years.

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