Institutional
Context
Standard 1: Mission,
Goals, and Objectives
The institution’s mission clearly defines its purpose
within the context of higher education and explains whom
the institution serves and what it intends to accomplish.
The institution’s stated goals and objectives, consistent
with the aspirations and expectations of higher education,
clearly specify how the institution will fulfill its mission.
The mission, goals, and objectives are developed and recognized
by the institution with its members and its governing body
and are utilized to develop and shape its programs and
practices and to evaluate its effectiveness.
Standard 2: Planning, Resource Allocation, and
Institutional Renewal
An institution conducts ongoing planning and resource allocation
based on its mission and uses the results of its assessment
activities for institutional renewal. Implementation and
subsequent evaluation of the success of the strategic plan
and resource allocation support the development and change
necessary to improve and to maintain institutional quality.
Standard 3: Institutional Resources
The human, financial, technical, physical facilities and
other resources necessary to achieve an institution’s
mission and goals are available and accessible. In the
context of the institution’s mission, the effective
and efficient uses of the institution’s resources
are analyzed as part of ongoing outcomes assessment.
Standard 4: Leadership and Governance
The institution’s system of governance clearly defines
the roles of institutional constituencies in policy development
and decision-making. The governance structure includes
an active governing body with sufficient autonomy to assure
institutional integrity and to fulfill its responsibilities
of policy and resource development, consistent with the
mission of the institution.
Standard 5: Administration
The institution’s administrative structure and services
facilitate learning and research/scholarship, foster quality
improvement, and support the institution’s organization
and governance.
Standard 6: Integrity
In the conduct of its programs and activities involving
the public and the constituencies it serves, the institution
demonstrates adherence to ethical standards and its own
stated policies, providing support to academic and intellectual
freedom.
Standard 7: Institutional Assessment
The institution has developed and implemented an assessment
plan and process that evaluates its overall effectiveness
in: achieving its mission and goals; implementing planning,
resource allocation, and institutional renewal processes;
using institutional resources efficiently; providing leadership
and governance; providing administrative structures and
services; demonstrating institutional integrity; and assuring
that institutional processes and resources support appropriate
learning and other outcomes for its students and graduates.
Educational Effectiveness
Standard 8: Student Admissions
The institution seeks to admit students whose interests,
goals, and abilities are congruent with its mission.
Standard 9: Student Support Services
The institution provides student support services reasonably
necessary to enable each student to achieve the institution’s
goals for students.
Standard 10: Faculty
The institution’s instructional, research, and service
programs are devised, developed, monitored, and supported
by qualified professionals.
Standard 11: Educational Offerings
The institution’s educational offerings display academic
content, rigor, and coherence that are appropriate to its
higher education mission. The institution identifies student
learning goals and objectives, including knowledge and skills,
for its educational offerings.
Standard 12: General Education
The institution’s curricula are designed so that students
acquire and demonstrate college-level proficiency in general
education and essential skills, including oral and written
communication, scientific and quantitative reasoning, critical
analysis and reasoning, technological competency, and information
literacy.
Standard 13: Related Educational Activities
Institutional programs or activities that are characterized
by particular content, focus, location, mode of delivery,
or sponsorship meet appropriate standards.
Standard 14: Assessment of Student Learning
Assessment of student learning demonstrates that the institution’s
students have knowledge, skills, and competencies consistent
with institutional goals and that students at graduation
have achieved appropriate higher education goals.
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