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Since the business school accreditation agency AACSB has recently renounced Diversity, Equity and Inclusive (DEI), it is high time that AACSB accredited business schools renounce their accreditations.

Accreditations are questionable in themselves. Expensive, lots of bureaucracy, hardly any noticeable improvements for students or lecturers. Not much substance, mostly a legitimacy facade. I’ve always found cheers about multiple accreditations absurd.

But when global accreditation of business schools immediately abandons DEI standards in anticipatory submission to an authoritarian US president announcing legally questionable decrees, then all the talk of “academic research principles” (p. 57 in the “Guiding Principles and Standards for Business School Accrediation”) is exactly that: just talk.