Competent faculty guarantees the accreditation of the degree you are granted. The faculty members you select are key to a respect and credibility that your degree receives once it is granted. Faculty should be selected because of their formal and informal recognition in your field, expertise in their field, the appreciation they have of the needs and goals that you, a nontraditional adult learner possesses, and their understanding of the distance learning process. Faculty are geographically dispersed and engaged in the professional practice that most closely bears on the field(s) of study for which they provide direction, evaluation, mentoring and supervision. AMIU's faculty characteristically must have demonstrated practical skills and theoretical understanding of your field of study. They are scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree, value distance learning, and honor the Socratic and/or Confucian learning model(s). Professionals who wish to serve as a faculty member are invited to identify their interest in being an adjunct professor or in other posts that  would help the university serve an international community of learners. But, it is the learner who must push to select caliber professionals who you - the learner can work with best.