Everyone should know the mission of our college.
Everyone should know that we are currently developing a statement of our core values. We have a working draft:
1. We are a caring community of scholars, students, faculty and staff. As a result, we encourage and sustain the distinctive experience of an intellectual community with our credit program in the liberal arts and sciences in keeping with standard preparation for baccalaureate transfer.
2. We provide open access for adults seeking to pursue and receive a post-secondary education. As a result, we offer quality learning experiences on a secure campus to all persons (regardless of race, national origin, creed, gender, age, physical ability or marital status) that are affordable and practical.
3. We present opportunities for varied life long educational options for non-traditional student populations. As a result, we excel in continuing education, development of adult learning skills, proficiency in English as a Second Language, meeting refugee and immigrant needs, maintaining an audiovisual tutorial lab, helping with computer-assisted instruction, tutoring academically challenged students, supporting information technology, and customizing training programs for job entry and careers for employment.
4. We promote appreciation and utilization of both oral and written intellectual and aesthetic achievements of the student body. As a result, we teach critical thinking and Writing Across the Curriculum as well as provide a learning resource center/library to help meet students’ various cultural needs and concerns.
5. We encourage community partnerships and excellence in service in our dynamic, urban, multi-cultural, and diverse area. As a result, we host local, regional, national, and international events and activities and offer a wide variety of service learning outlets and student extracurricular activities, as well as counseling on vocational, academic, and interpersonal issues.
6. Finally, we are committed to helping make a better world. As a result, we focus on the learner’s needs for self-sufficiency and enrichment, informed citizenship responsibility, and the ability to participate on the national and global level in whatever the learners have inclination and talent to pursue.
Everyone should be aware that our standards are based on:
Everyone should read our assessment plan. An assesssment plan is an ongoing process, an annual cycle to gather data that draws an accurate picture of what students know and are able to do at a particular moment, so the college can use this information to improve students' performance and measure our effectiveness as a college.
The plan attempts to assess uniformly across all programs by using course portfolios based on college-wide standards. Institutional data indirectly measuring learning (retention, completion, transfer, etc.) is also collected and analyzed. Putting all this data in the form of course portfolios facilitates the collection, analysis and dissemination of this datas where and internal "feedback loop" can occur.
Once the data is collected it can be reviewed and used to help set priorities in the budget process and the operational planning process as well as the instructinal process at the classroom level.
Everyone should be familiar with the levels of implementation.
Everyone should be aware that course portfolios form the bases of our assessment plan. A course portfolio is a "conversation" among faculty, students and the course requirements and standards to be developed for every area in which the college offers instruction focusing on courses where the greatest number of students are enrolled.
A course portfolio includes articulation of the connections between:
To review our course portfolios follow these steps:
Everyone should know how to reach the Office of Instruction.
