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Submission Guidelines
Founding Goals and Revisions
Assessment and Accountability Forum was founded to provide a professional forum for enhancing the science and practice of quality management in university-based, adult-centered higher education. In 1995, AAF's scope was expanded to address innovation, growth, diversification and quality management in all venues of adult-centered higher education, including continuing, professional, and corporate-focused education and the publication was renamed Journal of Innovation and Quality Management. While the range of permissable topics is greater, the unifying goal remains:
To stimulate the development of better visions, models, standards, practices and metrics for higher education leading to net increases in efficiency, effectiveness and the range of audiences.
Who May Submit
JIQM invites the contribution of accomplished leaders and managers, program and platform developers, teachers, researchers, policy makers and others contributing to JIQM's goals by way of innovation and processes of continuous improvement. With few exceptions, those considering submission should be senior members of their profession and should write of their relevant findings or views based on demonstrated accomplishments.
Editorial Issues
Focus. JIQM seeks to stimulate the kind of innovation that leads to improvements in the efficiency, effectiveness, and reach of higher education venues. Prospective authors are urged to reflect on the founding goals and revisions above to ensure that their topic is congruent with them. The Journal's primary method for achieving its goals is a forum in which appropriately qualified individuals explain their innovations and assert their views. The Journal's sense of "qualified individuals" gives considerable weight to demonstrated accomplishment, theoretical or practical.
Audience. The Journal's audience consists of senior academic administrators, program developers, market specialists, and research and assessment specialists (JIQM is also distributed without charge to the U.S. senate, selected house members, and the governors of all states). The safest generalization about these readers is that they are looking for a good idea that they might implement or adapt to their setting. Articles should provide insight into the author's perspective and practical accomplishments without the burden of extensive argument or citation. Readers tell us that they appreciate our typically crisp style and compact format. They also tell us when we fail to exercise the editorial control needed to achieve it.
Word Count. Most articles should contain between 500 and 2,500 words. Preference is given to 1,500 word articles that leave JIQM's readers with one or two important insights. In rare cases, topics requiring longer articles may be managed via a series of shorter articles to be carried over two to three issues. However, each part of such a series must be meaningful to someone who might read only that part.
Biographical Information. Include a brief (100-250 word) biographical sketch with your article. Summarize your academic credentials and your senior professional accomplishments in the area addressed in your article.
How to Submit
E-mail Attachment to:
articles@Phoenix-Institute.org
(preferred)
Mail Hard Copy to:
Robert W. Tucker, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Innovation & Quality Management
Phoenix Institute
824 W. Ashbourne Drive
Eagle, Idaho 83616