Accreditation of academic programs and recognition of student degrees provide academic institutions a measure of a set of community agreed upon standards. These can aid pedagogical change, support faculty to successfully engage students in their discipline and to provide a mechanism to maintain standards. Several professional scientific societies from engineering, chemistry, and biochemistry and molecular biology have developed standards by which departments can be recognized for accreditation. As one of the members of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology who helped develop the accreditation and standardized exams and a committee member of the American Chemical Society's Committee on Professional Training I will present the evolution of the accreditation process, discuss the benefits and challenges with being an accreditation. How these programs serve their communities and at times can hinder or be used to support potential creativity and teaching pedagogies will also be discussed.

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IUBMB/PSBMB 2019 会议/全体会议：国家计划认证。它是否有助于推动变革并支持教师和学生，还是会限制我们的创造力？

学术课程的认证和学生学位的认可为学术机构提供了一套社区商定标准的衡量标准。这些可以帮助教学改革，支持教师成功地让学生参与他们的学科，并提供一种机制来维持标准。来自工程、化学、生物化学和分子生物学的几个专业科学学会制定了标准，通过这些标准可以认可部门的认可。作为帮助制定认证和标准化考试的美国生物化学和分子生物学学会的成员之一，以及美国化学学会专业培训委员会的委员会成员，我将介绍认证过程的演变，讨论获得认证的好处和挑战。还将讨论这些计划如何为他们的社区服务，有时会阻碍或被用来支持潜在的创造力和教学法。