In the years since the Action Project Directory was created, the Commission has identified many needed additions, prompting a Directory revision.

The Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) created its Action Project Directory in 2002, soon after holding its first Strategy Forums.

The Directory was designed so institutions could share their Action Projects—both their specific goals and their strategies for achieving them—with other educators. The Commission found that having institutions formally declare their intentions for improvement projects made it easier for them to follow through and achieve the goals they had set for themselves.

The Action Project Directory is used to ensure that participating institutions are always actively working on three or more focused improvement projects and that each participating institution is serious about AQIP. Consequently, the Directory is relied on to notify the Commission when an institution has stopped working actively on improvement—when it ought to withdraw from AQIP and seek a reaccreditation process that does not require this overt commitment to continuous improvement.

In the years since the Action Project Directory was created, many things were discovered that needed to be incorporated in the original design.  The new Directory was implemented in January 2010. In the next month, the online Action Project Directory Search Engine will be updated to the new Directory. Please check back often for more information.