Cochise College Self-Study
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Self-Study Steering Committee Our mission is to provide leadership, oversight, direction and coordination for the entire self-study process and to ensure that the process is thorough, accurate, inclusive and connected to ongoing quality improvement processes.
Steering Team Members (PDF) Reports
Communications Committee The mission of the Communications Team is to facilitate the self-study and re-accreditation process through advice, assistance and/or organization of college events, community events (when appropriate), the consultant/evaluator team visit and presentation of materials.
Communications Team Members (PDF) Reports
Criterion 1 - Mission and Integrity The organization operates with integrity to ensure the fulfillment of its mission through structures and processes that involve the board, administration, faculty, staff, students.
- The organization’s mission documents are clear and articulate publicly the organization’s commitments.
- In its mission documents, the organization recognizes the diversity of its learners, other constituencies, and the greater society it serves.
- Understanding of and support for the mission pervade the organization.
- The organization’s governance and administrative structures promote effective leadership and support collaborative processes that enable the organization to fulfill its mission.
- The organization upholds and protects its integrity
Crierion 1 Team Members (PDF) Reports
Criterion 2 - Preparing for the Future The organization’s allocations of resources and its processes for evaluation and planning demonstrate its capacity to fulfill its mission, improve the quality of its education, and respond to future challenges and opportunities.
- The organization realistically prepares for a future shaped by multiple societal and economic trends.
- The organization’s resource base supports its educational programs and its plans for maintaining and strengthening their quality in the future.
- The organization’s ongoing evaluation and assessment processes provide reliable evidence of institutional effectiveness that clearly informs strategies for continuous improvement.
- All levels of planning align with the organizational mission, thereby enhancing its capacity to fulfill that mission.
Criterion 2 Team Members (PDF) Reports
Criterion 3 - Student Learning and Effective Teaching The organization provides evidence of student learning and teaching effectiveness that demonstrates it is fulfilling its educational mission.
- The organization’s goals for student learning outcomes are clearly stated for each educational program and make effective assessment possible.
- The organization values and supports effective teaching.
- The organization creates effective learning environments.
- The organization’s learning resources support student learning and effective teaching.
Criterion 3 Team Members (PDF) Reports
Criterion 4 - Acquisition, Discovery and Application of Knowledge The organization promotes a life of learning for its faculty, administration, staff, and students by fostering and supporting inquiry, creativity, practice, and social responsibility in ways consistent with its mission.
- The organization demonstrates, through the actions of its board, administrators, students, faculty, and staff, that it values a life of learning.
- The organization demonstrates that acquisition of a breadth of knowledge and skills and the exercise of intellectual inquiry are integral to its educational programs.
- The organization assesses the usefulness of its curricula to students who will live and work in a global, diverse, and technological society.
- The organization provides support to ensure that faculty, students, and staff acquire, discover and apply knowledge responsibly.
Criterion 4 Team Members (PDF) Reports
Criterion 5 - Engagement and Service As called for by its mission, the organization identifies its constituencies and serves them in ways both value.
- The organization learns from the constituencies it serves and analyzes their needs and expectations.
- The organization has the capacity and the commitment to engage with its identified constituencies and communities.
- The organization demonstrates its responsiveness to those constituencies that depend on it for service.
- Internal and external constituencies value the services the organization provides.
Criterion 5 Team Members (PDF) Reports
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