Current Accreditation Documents

Assurance System Filing, Feedback and Action Letter

Main Campus Address Change

Interim Reports

Federal Compliance

Credit Hour Report

Assumed Practices

Strategic Plan

Continuous Improvement Resources

Continuous Improvement (CI) incorporates a variety of ideas about how to make organizations better. Some of the important principles of Continuous Improvement philosophy in an education institution include:

• Everything we do should be focused on improving student learning – which includes classroom activities, but also all the other functions at the college that support students and staff in their work.
• Processes often involve people and departments throughout the college, so improvement efforts should include people who know that process best, and who work in different departments.
• Decisions should be made based on evidence – which means that we need to gather information about how well processes are working now, and what we should focus on to make them work even better.

Academy Workshop Participation

Persistence and Completion Academy – July 2014

The Persistence and Completion Academy is designed for institutions wishing to build institutional capacity for the improvement of student persistence and completion. The Academy offers a structured program that aims to help institutions, with the guidance of a dedicated mentor, establish clear goals and strategies for specific student population groups and implement initiatives to support attainment of those goals. Participating institutions also learn how to collect and analyze data to identify patterns that lead to data-informed decisions.

Attending: Nick Baker, Ryan Madis, Deb Shumaker, and Shannon Weaver.

Assessment Academy – July 2013

The Assessment Academy is tailored for institutions interested in developing an ongoing commitment to assessing and improving student learning. The Academy offers each institution personalized guidance in developing, documenting and implementing a systematic approach to institutional assessment. Institutions participating in the Assessment Academy are presented with new ideas and techniques for influencing institutional culture, increasing capacity to assess student learning and using assessment data to improve student learning.

Attending: Nick Holton, Julie Lavender, and Laura Percival.