Sample Mission Statement, Values Language: (Anne Arundel CC, CC of Baltimore
County, Valencia, Lake Tahoe CC, Dawson CC, Alvin CC, North Central Kansas Technical
C, Kirkwood CC)
+ Stab at Core Themes Language
Anne Arundel Community College
Anne Arundel Community College, established in 1961, is a fully accredited, nationally recognized, public, two-year institution and the largest single-campus community college in Maryland, serving more than 50,000 students annually.
Mission
With learning as its central mission, Anne Arundel Community College responds to the needs of a diverse community by offering high quality, affordable, and accessible learning opportunities and is accountable to its stakeholders.
Vision
Anne Arundel Community College is a premier learning community whose students and graduates are among the best-prepared citizens and workers of the world.
Informed by the College's vision and mission statements, learning outcomes assessment is a fundamental part of ongoing, reflective improvements in student learning at Anne Arundel Community
College. It is a shared process whereby departments and programs affirm their strengths and plan improvements that contribute to the institution’s overall effectiveness as a learning college. The chief goal of assessing student learning Is to enhance student learning and to ensure that more students are more successful in achieving their academic, professional,and personal enrichment goals
Community College of Baltimore County
(http://catalog.ccbcmd.edu/content.php?catoid=20&navoid=1158#Mission)
Mission
The Community College of Baltimore County provides an accessible, affordable, and highquality education that prepares students for transfer and career success, strengthens the regional workforce, and enriches our community.
Vision
We will be the institution of choice for students, where together we make teaching purposeful, learning powerful, and community paramount.
Values
Commitment: We want our students to succeed and move forward to the completion of their educational goals at the college through degree or certificate attainment, transfer, workplace certification, career enhancement, or personal enrichment.

Learning: We celebrate learning and are committed to ensuring our students grow as learners, develop a passion for life-long learning, and use what they have learned to benefit our community.
Innovation: We support a climate of discovery that values innovation. We encourage students, faculty and staff to explore new ideas, methods and processes.
Responsibility: We encourage open and honest communications, fairness, mutual respect, collegiality, and civility in all college-related matters. We have high expectations for the work of our employees, the academic rigor of our offerings, the scholarship of our students, and the involvement of the community and the workplace in the college’s future.
Integrity: We inspire public trust by maintaining ethical, honest, and trustworthy relationships with our faculty, our students, our staff, and our community.
Inclusiveness: We welcome, respect, and embrace the differences and similarities of our employees, our students, and the communities we proudly serve. We acknowledge the richness of diversity and the dignity of all persons.
Excellence: We strive for personal and organizational improvement and the wise and prudent management of our resources. We will continuously improve teaching and learning experiences to meet or exceed the needs of the workplace and the highest expectations of our community.
Stewardship: We believe in sustainable practices and prudently manage all of the resources entrusted to us to advance the college’s mission and strategic directions.
Collaboration: We encourage continuous dialog within the college among students, faculty and staff and support ongoing cooperative relationships with our partners in the community.
Strategic Goals:
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Student Success
Teaching & Learning Excellence
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Organizational Excellence
Community Engagement
Valencia:
Vision
Valencia is a premier learning college that transforms lives, strengthens community, and inspires individuals to excellence.
Values:
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Learning by committing to Valencia's core competencies - Think, Value, Communicate, and
Act - and the potential of each person to learn at the highest levels of achievement for personal and professional success.
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People by creating a caring, inclusive and safe environment that inspires all people to achieve their goals, share their success and encourage others.

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Diversity by fostering the understanding it builds in learning relations and appreciating the dimensions it adds to our quality of life.
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Access by reaching out to our communities, inviting and supporting all learners and partners to achieve their goals.
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Integrity by respecting the ideas of freedom, civic responsibility, academic honesty, personal ethics, and the courage to act.
Mission:
Valencia provides opportunities for academic, technical and life-long learning in a collaborative culture dedicated to inquiry, results and excellence.
Strategic Goals
Build Pathways
○ Remove barriers to college.
○ Create connections that raise personal aspirations of students and enable them to achieve their aspirations.
○ Develop and renew programs.
Learning Assured
○ Create optimal conditions for student learning.
○ Partner with students to improve their contribution to achieving their potential.
○ Close achievement gaps.
Invest in Each Other
○ Strengthen our collaborative institutional culture to foster deep stewardship of our work.
○ Support the professional development, career growth and healthy lives of Valencia's employees
Partner with the Community
○ Cooperate with community partners in meeting students' needs and college goals.
○ Involve the College in meeting the community's needs and goals.
Lake Tahoe Community College serves our local, regional and global communities by promoting comprehensive learning, success, and life-changing opportunities. Through quality instruction and student support, our personalized approach to teaching and learning empowers students to achieve their educational and personal goals.
Vision
"California's premier destination community college."
Beliefs

We at Lake Tahoe Community College believe:
● Students come first
● An educated citizenry is fundamental
● Learning enhances the quality of life
● Innovation, integrity, high standards and the pursuit of excellence are essential
● Diversity enriches
● We make a difference
Dawson Community College
MISSION
Dawson Community College provides affordable and open access to quality teaching and learning.
CORE THEMES
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College Transfer Education: Provide programs and services that prepare learners for transition to and success in further degree programs
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Career & Technical Education: Provide programs and services that prepare learners for vocational and technical career entry, transition, and advancement
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College Readiness Education: Provide pre-college programs and services that prepare learners for successful transition to college
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Continuing Education & Community Service: Provide programs and services that help address the professional, social, and personal enrichment needs of the region
Alvin Community College
Mission
The mission of Alvin Community College is to improve lives by providing affordable, accessible and innovative educational opportunities to those it serves.
Vision
Alvin Community College will be recognized as a premier community college in the state of
Texas.
North Central Kansas Technical College
Mission Statement
North Central Kansas Technical College (NCKTC), an institution of higher education, provides life-long educational opportunities to a diverse population leading to productive lives for the benefit of a global society. We are dedicated to providing a curriculum in a supportive learning environment designed to promote a personalized, educational experience that will enhance an individual’s opportunity to develop to his or her full potential.

Vision Statement
North Central Kansas Technical College is committed to being a leader in innovative workforce development and a world class learning resource for the ever changing needs of business and industry.
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Student Success
Alvin Community College will provide access to high quality educational opportunities to its students in an environment that encourages success
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Partnerships & Resource Development
Alvin Community College will carry out its mission efficiently, and will engage in partnerships that bring resources to the college and community.
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Professional Development
Alvin Community College will promote lifelong learning for its employees that improves their effectiveness in serving students and the community
· Cultural Awareness
Alvin Community College will have an educational environment that reflects a changing world and prepares its students to live and work in diverse situations.
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Campus Safety
Alvin Community College will ensure the safety of its campus for students, employees and the community.
Kirkwood Community College
Consistent with the philosophy held by the College in accordance with the charge given it by the State of Iowa as an institution of higher education and in concert with other agencies:
Kirkwood Community College identifies community needs; provides accessible, quality education and training; and promotes opportunities for lifelong learning.
To accomplish this mission we are committed to creating an environment in which we constantly strive for improvement.
Principles and Values
• Integrity
• Mutual Respect
• Open Communication
• Innovation
• Partnership
• Lifelong Learning
• Servant Leadership
• Excellence
Stab at Core Themes Statement for LCC
What we have now

Transforming lives through learning
Lane is the community's college; we provide comprehensive, accessible, quality, learning ‐ cen tered ed ucatio n al o p p o
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Academic Transfer
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Career technical and Workforce Development
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Foundational Skills Development
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Lifelong Learning
Better Core Themes
● Commitment to Student Success: Appropriate placement, progress, support, and completion
● Investment in Quality Instruction: On-going, reflective improvement of the learning environment, accomplished through the twin pillars of 1) program review and assessment and 2) dedication to faculty professional development tied to the scholarship of teaching and learning
● Creation of an Inclusive Environment: Development and maintenance of a diverse and inclusive environment to help prepare our students for an increasingly connected and diverse global community
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● A commitment to student persistence, retention, and completion
● The promise of High challenge curriculum and high support for student learning
● The articulation of Explicit & visible learning goals
● An investment in, and maintenance of, a qualified, professional teaching force and support staff
Christina’s suggestions for discussion
● Academic Progress - Provide programs and services for students to progress their individual educational goals
○ My thoughts here are that we could expand our definition (and therefore broaden assessment) of “student success” to include the wide range of reasons students take developmental and credit-level classes; would also include degrees, certificates and transfer. Invites persistence with students who can experience success in one class as a gateway to future college success; resonates with students you need to attend part-time or need refresher courses; Suggests all students will develop and implement a “progress plan” to increase student ownership of goals and facilitate advising and other supports (i.e. financial aid planning) for our diverse students

● Liberally-Educated Workforce and Career Development
○ Integrates the importance of general ed and CLOs into the CTE programs and
Cooperative education; increases visibility to the public and to students as to the important connection between liberal education and workplace success
○ Provides potential for more integrative and co-curricular collaborative work
● Professional and Personal Growth
○ Includes non-credit offerings, faculty and staff professional development; invites a structure to foster and recognize faculty, staff, students, and community members who are demonstrating a commitment to improvement
● Teaching and Learning in Classroom and Community
○ Increases visibility of how students meet their success: through teaching and learning in curricular and co-curricular realms, by engaging in committees, governance, and peer review practices. Allows for increased visibility of applied learning across the college for institutional effectiveness and continuous quality improvement
Sarah’s ideas in purple (Note: I had to head off for a full day of teaching, so some of these thoughts are incomplete. Feel free to add/edit)
Driven by Student Success
● Ensures that all decisions about funding, program review, curriculum development, placement, support services, advisement, administrative action, faculty professional development, and facilities are rooted in and centered on research-based best practices in student learning, retention, and success
Invested in Liberal Arts
● Places focus on the liberal arts model through the integration and infusion of Lane’s
Core Learning Outcomes in course, program, department/division, and institutional work
● Recognizes that to make liberal arts education accessible and meaningful to students, all aspects of students’ institutional experiences including the application process, student orientation, advisement, counseling, teaching/learning, and co-curricular activities must be framed by the CLOs and liberal arts model
● ** Need bullet here about importance of assessment/feedback loop in successful liberal arts model
Fostering Cultural Competency
● Recognizes that cultural competency is a life-long pursuit that is vital to learning and success in a global economy
● Supports a holistic approach to fostering genuine cultural competency in all areas of campus life