Approach: Consider the Attributes of High Quality Academic Institutions

1. Overall Goal: Improve Academic Excellence at MPC Approach: Consider the Attributes of High Quality Academic Institutions

2. 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. • __________________________________________________________ • 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

3. Attributes of High Quality Academic Institutions Excellent Teaching/ services Highly Functional Programs To achieve this goal, faculty must: 1. Teach/ provide services 2. Review Program Quality 3. Evaluate Student Work Provides information for: -students, i.e., grades -indicators of program quality Things Faculty Do 4. Participate in Shared Governance Supports: -space and supplies to teach -quality programs

4. Attributes of High Quality Academic Institutions Excellent Teaching/ services Highly Functional Programs To achieve this goal, faculty must: 1. Teach/ provide services 2. Review Program Quality 3. Evaluate Student Work Provides information for: -students, i.e., grades -indicators of program quality Things Faculty Do 4. Participate in Shared Governance Supports: -space and supplies to teach -quality programs

5. Attributes of High Quality Academic Institutions Excellent Teaching/services Highly Functional Programs To achieve this goal, faculty must: 1. Teach/ provide services 2. Review Program Quality 3. Evaluate Student Work Provides information for: -students, i.e., grades -indicators of program quality Things Faculty Do 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

6. Attributes of High Quality Academic Institutions Excellent Teaching/ services Highly Functional Programs Area for Improvement To achieve this goal, faculty must: 1. Teach/ provide services 2. Review Program Quality 3. Evaluate Student Work Provides information for: -students, i.e., grades -indicators of program quality Things Faculty Do 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

7. 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

8. Documents that provide guidelines to achieve high quality 1. Hiring -hiring procedures -job announcement template Area for Improvement: 2. Mentoring -new faculty mentoring guidelines (currently does not exist?) Integrate these documents with a visible thread of commonality 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

9. 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

10. 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 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