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Institutional Effectiveness
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Collegewide Committee Responsibilities
Phase I
- Collaborate with the College’s Mission and Vision Engagement Process in Spring and Summer 2010
- Identify professional development needs for the committee members
- Select an institutional effectiveness model
- Develop a timeline for the College’s institutional effectiveness activities
- Determine the units/programs within each institutional effectiveness area
- Develop a collegewide institutional effectiveness manual
- Develop unit/program institutional effectiveness plan template and rubric
- Identify institutional effectiveness Web-based system (tasked to Ad Hoc Committee)
Phase II
- Provide guidance to the institutional effectiveness subcommittees (such as student learning outcomes, administrative, etc.)
- Conduct an inventory of existing institutional effectiveness activities, reports, and contacts
- Develop an employee awareness campaign
- Identify and respond to professional development needs of College employees at the department/program leadership level and at the department member level for implementation of the institutional effectiveness process
- Oversee implementation of institutional effectiveness Web-based system
Phase III
- Ensure clear linkages are established between College mission and goals; unit/program mission, goals and plans; and allocation of resources
- Ensure full implementation of institutional effectiveness cycle across the College, within all units and programs
- Ensure that goals and outcomes are assessed to determine the degree to which they are achieved
- Ensure that procedures are established for monitoring progress and implementing appropriate modification within the institutional effectiveness cycle
- Ensure that annual unit/program reports are reviewed and feedback is used to improve the unit or program
- Provide mechanisms for assessing the effectiveness of the institutional effectiveness process, system, and resources
- Provide overall report to senior management at least once per year.