July 18, 2012

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The Following Accomplishments
2011-2012
• Completed Description, Appraisal, Projection goals for each of the 11 Standards
• Identified Key Priorities for each Standard
• Created project management plans – some of which are still incomplete

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Key Priorities
Standard One: Mission and Purpose
• Create a Vision Statement
• Review/Update the Mission Statement
• Proposals for the above two items have been forwarded to the President…we just need to finalize approval
• Ensure that the Mission Statement is well-publicized
• This Committee has prepared a list of recommendations

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Standard Two: Planning and Evaluation
Big Issues:
• Need to create a new Strategic Plan…ideally we should have it completed by September 2012 as we begin a new academic year
• Using the Strategic Plan as the central driver, establish a more comprehensive, integrated, and participatory Planning and Evaluation process
• Measure effectiveness of CCRI’s planning function

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Standard Three: Governance
• Overall consensus of the NEASC Committee is that our current governance system is not working
• Most of the feedback indicated that the system is too complicated and cumbersome, and we should abandon the current system and design a simpler system that is more understandable and efficient
• To-date there has been little or no progress in revamping the current system.

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Standard Four: The Academic Program
• Assessing Student Learning Outcomes…Need to take the process to a higher level AND see that it is implemented
• Need to measure General Education outcomes both in terms of our programs and in terms of College’s claims of creating a Educated Person
• Need to have greater link between Academic Program Review and
Assessment of Learning Outcomes…How are we using this information to improve instruction?
• Need to revamp College’s approach to Developmental Education
• Need greater quality controls:
– Distance Learning Courses
– Common Course Objectives in multiple sections of the same course

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Standard Five – Faculty
• Need systems in place to orient and support adjunct faculty
• Need to increase the diversity of our Faculty
• Need to create a more systematic, effective method for using the data collected in faculty evaluations

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Standard Six – Students
• Create target goals for retention and graduation
• Implement the research from Foundations of
Excellence project
• Create learning goals for student programming
• Review resources and existing strategies for advising and registering students

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Standard Seven
Library and Other Information Resources
• Question of how the College is addressing information literacy
• NEASC had recommended in a prior review that there be a plan in place for addressing the budget priorities of all campus libraries

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Standard Eight – Physical and Technological Resources
• Demonstrate how the College is using the information gathered in R25/X25/S25 to improve instruction – Guiding question is How to Optimize the Use of College Space?
• Evaluate the changes that need to occur in the Master
Schedule to support good use of college space
• Need to address perceptions that faculty do not have sufficient voice in technology decisions
• Need to create a Mission, Vision, and Long-Term Plan for
Distance Education

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Standard Nine – Financial Resources
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Need to communicate how the budget is created, how the budget connects with strategic initiatives, etc.
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Need to establish a process/group to collect and use data for decision-making

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Standard Ten – Public Disclosures
• Big Issue …Need a College-wide Policy Manual
• Need a working Governance System
• Need to create a “punch list” of changes to CCRI’s Web site (three clicks…and you’re there)
• Address policies of Federal Higher Education Act:
– Establish Institution’s Credit Hour Policy
– Disclose credit transfer policy and a list of institutions with articulation agreements
– Publish student complaint policy
– Verification of students enrolled in distance or correspondence education

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Standard Eleven – Integrity
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Need college-wide policy manual
• Governance system needs to be revised…currently not working
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Need improved communications from governance committee meetings
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Need better orientation for adjunct faculty

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The College has achieved a lot in last several years, but we have more to accomplish
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Need Senior Management Team and Middle-
Management Team Support to Address our Priorities this Year