Accreditation standards
The World Futures Studies Federation offers its standards to institutions interested in achieving ac-
creditation in futures studies. Institutions offering programmes which meet the federation’s standards
will be credentialed as an Accredited Foresight Programme.
Accreditation will extend for a period of six (6) years. Review of accreditation will be available every
six (6) years to insure programmes continue to maintain high quality standards of the Federation.
So far the working group recommends that the federation offers 38 accreditation criteria organized
under 6 accreditation standards: mission, faculty, curriculum, instruction, students, and resources.
Programmes meeting these standards, as evidenced by these criteria, will be afforded recognition by
the World Futures Studies Federation as an “Accredited Foresight Programme”. These 38 accredita-
tion criteria are:
List of WFSF Accreditation Standards
0.0. Preconditions
0.1: Futures Studies
0.2: Degree Granting
0.3: State Approval
0.4: Institutionally Accredited
0.5: Sufficient Graduates
0.6: Administrative Unit
0.7: Distance Education
0.8: Institutional Membership
1.0. Mission Standards
1.1: Mission Statement
1.2: Program Outcomes
1.3: Multi-Year Plan
1.4: Qualified Officers
2.0. Faculty Standards
2.1: Qualified Faculty Ratio
2.2: Academically Qualified
2.3: Professionally Qualified
2.4: Faculty Review Process
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2.5: Full-Time Faculty Ratio
2.6: Teaching Workloads
2.7: Faculty Engagement
3.0. Curriculum Standards
3.1: Peer Benchmarking
3.2: Degree Level
3.3: Foresight Core
3.4: Transfer Credit
3.5: Minimum Credits
4.0. Instructional Standards
4.1: Curriculum Review
4.2: Outcome Assessments
4.3: Defined Assessments
4.4: Faculty Performance
4.5: Assessment Plan
5.0. Student Standards
5.1: Admission Requirements World Futures Studies Federation Accreditation Standards
5.2: Student Achievement
5.3: Academic Information
6.0. Resource Standards
6.1: Library Resources
6.2: Information Technology
6.3: Instructional Technology
6.4: Professional Support
6.5: Administrative Support
6.6: Enrollment Support
How exactly we should operationalize this, will depend on discussions the coming month and in par-
ticular on the outcome of the conference in Mexico City in September.
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