Closing the Loop

1. Closing the Loop Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo Shelley Blackman, Evergreen Valley Lloyd Thomas, West LA

2. Mapping • Look over the map of your college planning and budgeting process that you made in the General Session. • Where are the gaps in your process--SLO assessment, program review? Note the places where something more is needed

3. Translating your Map • Explain your map, your process and your gaps to someone else.

4. Brainstorm Challenges and Solutions • Discuss the challenges that your college faces in this process with a partner. • For each challenge that you identify, brainstorm a solution. • Present your challenges and solutions to the entire group

5. Examining the Standards • Choose one of the following three quotations from the standards and begin explaining your college’s process • Yes, you are actually practicing how to write an accreditation report!

6. Closing the Loop • Standard I: Institutional Mission and Effectiveness • B. Improving Institutional Effectiveness • …. • 3. The institution assesses progress toward achieving its stated goals and makes decisions regarding the improvement of institutional effectiveness in an ongoing and systematic cycle of evaluation, integrated planning, resource allocation, implementation, and re- evaluation. Evaluation is basedon analyses of both quantitative and qualitative data.

7. Closing the Loop • Standard I: Institutional Mission and Effectiveness • B. Improving Institutional Effectiveness • …. • 4. The institution provides evidence that the planning process is broad- based, offers opportunities for input by appropriate constituencies, allocates necessary resources, and leads to improvement of institutional effectiveness.

8. Closing the Loop • Standard I: Institutional Mission and Effectiveness • B. Improving Institutional Effectiveness • …. • 6. The institution assures the effectiveness of its ongoing planning and resource allocation processes by systematically reviewing and modifying, as appropriate, all parts of the cycle, including institutional and other research efforts. (4)

9. Refine Your Action Plan • After hearing the challenges and solutions that were presented, look at the action plan you developed in the General Session. • What more do you need to do? • What is the first thing that you will do when you get home?