Overall Goal: Improve Academic Excellence at MPC
Approach:
Consider the Attributes of
High Quality
Academic Institutions
So much of what is academic excellence and academic work is
difficult to articulate, evaluate or measure, but is necessary to
have a whole discussion about academic excellence and should be
documented.
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Factors that motivate us to teach and develop programs.
We hope to …
•Inspire students to learn and question
•Prepare students to succeed in 4 year institutions to which they will
transfer
•Challenge students and help them to expand their horizons and
perspectives
•Provide courses and programs that make students think
•Prepare students to achieve a healthy life-style
•Help students raise their own standards of decency, sisterhood,
brotherhood and commitments to community service
•Help students achieve SLOs
•Provide students with accurate, up=to=date, academic content
Attributes of High Quality
Academic Institutions
Excellent
Teaching/
services
Highly Functional
Programs
To achieve this goal, faculty must:
1. Teach/
provide
services
Things
Faculty Do
2. Review
Program Quality
3. Evaluate Student Work
Provides information for:
-students, i.e., grades
-indicators of program quality
4. Participate in Shared Governance
Supports:
-space and supplies to teach
-quality programs
Attributes of High Quality
Academic Institutions
Excellent
Teaching/
services
Highly Functional
Programs
To achieve this goal, faculty must:
1. Teach/
provide
services
Things
Faculty Do
2. Review
Program Quality
3. Evaluate Student Work
Provides information for:
-students, i.e., grades
-indicators of program quality
4. Participate in Shared Governance
Supports:
-space and supplies to teach
-quality programs
Attributes of High Quality
Academic Institutions
Excellent
Teaching/
services
Highly Functional
Programs
To achieve this goal, faculty must:
1. Teach/
provide
services
Things
Faculty Do
2. Review
Program Quality
3. Evaluate Student Work
Provides information for:
-students, i.e., grades
-indicators of program quality
4. Participate in Shared Governance
Supports:
-space and supplies to teach
-quality programs
MPC is an excellent institution because it does these things.
-sometimes formally, sometimes informally
Attributes of High Quality
Academic Institutions
Excellent
Teaching/
services
Highly Functional
Programs
To achieve this goal, faculty must:
1. Teach/
provide
services
Things
Faculty Do
2. Review
Program Quality
3. Evaluate Student Work
Provides information for:
-students, i.e., grades
-indicators of program quality
4. Participate in Shared Governance
Supports:
-space and supplies to teach
-quality programs
MPC is an excellent institution because it does these things.
-sometimes formally, sometimes informally
Area for
Improvement
Details
1. Elevate the Eminence of Program Review
-Where we are now
-Program improvement happens constantly on an informal
basis, but not recognized as part of “program review”
-Program review is perceived as a lot of work every six years that has a nebulous connection
to what we do every day
-Not generally recognized as something all of us regularly do
-Where we should think about going (possible objectives)
-Give more “vitality” to the annual updates; make them central to annual planning
(AAAG, College Council, Admin)
-Promote wider dissemination of results to inform institutional decision making
-Encourage constructive critique
-Promote recognition that much of what we do IS program review
-document discussions related to student progress in courses
-document discussions related to linkages between courses
-the work of the Basic Skills and other committee to see how programs interact
Documents that provide guidelines
to achieve high quality
1. Hiring
-hiring procedures
-job announcement template
2. Mentoring
-new faculty mentoring guidelines
(currently does not exist?)
3. Describing Faculty Duties
-board policy
-faculty handbook
-DE handbook (?)
4. Evaluation
-program review guidelines
-evaluation guidelines
-developed via collaboration
between union and Senate;
negotiated by union
Area for
Improvement:
Integrate
these
documents
with a visible
thread of
commonality
Details
2. Examine and Potentially Revise Documents that Provide Guidelines to Achieve High Quality
-Where we are now
-Disparate set of documents with little connection between them
-Where we should think about going (possible objectives)
-Developing a set of documents that contains
-an integrated framework with a visible thread of commonality
-a consistent description of faculty and program expectations
-information about how to do things and where to go to get information
1. Elevate the Eminence of Program Review
-Where we are now
-Program improvement happens constantly on an informal
basis, but not recognized as part of “program review”
-Program review is perceived as a lot of work every six years that has a nebulous connection
to what we do every day
-Not generally recognized as something all of us regularly do
Details
-Where we should think about going (possible objectives)
-Give more “vitality” to the annual updates; make them central to annual planning
(AAAG, College Council, Admin)
-Promote wider dissemination of results to inform institutional decision making
-Encourage constructive critique
-Promote recognition that much of what we do IS program review
-document discussions related to student progress in courses
-document discussions related to linkages between courses
-the work of the Basic Skills and other committee to see how programs interact
2. Examine and Potentially Revise Documents that Provide Guidelines to Achieve High Quality
-Where we are now
-Disparate set of documents with little connection between them
-Where we should think about going (possible objectives)
-Developing a set of documents that contains
-an integrated framework with a visible thread of commonality
-a consistent description of faculty and program expectations
-information about how to do things and where to go to get information