Template for Team Responses to the Accreditation Standards
1. Review the Specific Standard Section
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3. Through established governance structures, processes, and practices, the governing board, administrators, faculty, staff, and students work together for the good of the institution. These processes facilitate discussion of ideas and effective communication among the institution’s constituencies.
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2. List of Team Members working on this Standard
3. Read and Review Self-Study Questions and Suggested Source of Evidence
Major reference source for analyzing accreditation standards:
“Accreditation Commission Self Study Guidelines, August 2004, Guide to Evaluating Institutions”
http://www.ohlone.edu/org/instruction/docs/200408accredcomm-guidetoevaluatinginstitutions.pdf
4. Locate and Review the Evidence. Include Suggested Sources of Evidence from the “Guide to Evaluating Institutions” as well as additional engagement activities conducted by your Team, such as team meetings, special meetings of existing groups, special focus groups, open forums, surveys, etc…)
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List of evidence being reviewed and engagement activities being conducted:
1) Copies of governance policies/procedures for all staff
Board, CC and faculty senate agendas and Minutes are on line, Faculty handbook is on line
Need to collect CSEA/SEIU /UFO contracts/manuals etc, ASOC seat on the Board
2) Minutes of meetings (CC)
3) Student Learning Programs/services-
4) Means of communication among staff/faculty/students and the community
5) Program Review Improvement Grant - CC- detail the proces and criteria used
6) List of College Core Values- Available reference stategic goals - specifics
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5. Descriptive Summary
Draft a brief one or two paragraph description of what the College is doing to meet the standard.
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The President establised a comprehensive and integrated budgeting and planning system which is led by a College Council (shared governance organization) of which he is co-chair. The CC comprises representatives from students, classified staff, faculty, and administrators.
The President led the planning process through an extensive series of forums that resulted in the development of a Mission Statement, a new core values statement and eight/nine goals with supporting objectives that are now the core of the College's planning and performance evaluation system.
The governance stucture described earlier depends on representation form a variety of constituants (faculty staff....) each group has membership throughout the structure this includes students who have an advisory vote on the BOT. It should be understood that at time representation at all levels is difficult to maintain however the overall involvement does seem better integrated and representitive.
The debate that has taken palce this year at the board level regarding the development of the colleges frontage property, the master plan for the development of the college was evidence of the fact that an entire campus community was involved and supportive. The Board records, both written and streaming video offerr evidence of the colleges tremendous support for a major initiative.
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6. Integration Review
Is there an expression of our College Values? Is there a contribution to our College Goals? Is there an expression of the Accreditation Themes?
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Student enrollments, student sucess, improve webadvisor
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7. Self Evaluation
Provide a rating of how well the College is addressing the specific standard using this scoring rubric:
1. Superior: College has worked in this area and considerable improvement is noted
2. Satisfactory: College has taken some actions to address the area and some improvement is noted.
3. Needs Improvement: College has not adequately addressed the area.
Rating:
Draft a one or two paragraph explanation for this rating based upon your assessment of the College’s activities in relation to the standard. Pay particular attention to the quality of our involvement and interventions since the last WASC self-study report.
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All of these committees encourage communication regardless of titles or any hierarchal organizational structure. The college fully meets the standard.
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8. Planning Agenda
If the assessment process does not identify areas in need of change, simply state, No Plan Required
If the assessment process identifies areas in need of change, a planning agenda for improvement should be developed. The planning agenda should identify the activities and processes the institution should implement, or is implementing, to produce improvement. How will these plans be incorporated into the evaluation and planning processes of the institution? How will the outcomes of this planning agenda improve student learning and foster institutional improvement in general.
Adapted from: “Self Study Manual,” August 2006, A Publication of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges Western Association of Schools and Colleges; and City College of San Francisco Self-Study Template
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