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Criterion Committees:
Criterion 1
Criterion 2
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Criterion 5
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The
Higher Learning Commission Criteria for Accreditation and Operational
Indicators
Criterion
Two: Preparing for the Future
The
organizations 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.
Core Component 2A.
The organization realistically prepares for
a future shaped by multiple societal and economic trends.
Examples
of Evidence:
- The organizations planning documents
reflect a sound understanding of the organizations current
capacity.
- The organizations planning documents
demonstrate that attention is being paid to emerging factors such
as technology, demographic shifts, and globalization.
- The organizations planning documents
show careful attention to the organizations function in a
multicultural society.
- The organizations planning processes
include effective environmental scanning.
- The organizational environment is supportive
of innovation and change.
- The organization incorporates in its
planning those aspects of its history and heritage that it wishes
to preserve and continue.
- The organization clearly identifies
authority for decision making about organizational goals.
Core Component 2B.
The organizations resource base supports it educational
programs and its plans for maintaining and strengthening their quality
in the future.
Examples
of Evidence:
- The organizations resources are
adequate for achievement of the educational quality it claims to
provide.
- Plans for resource development and
allocation document an organizational commitment to supporting and
strengthening the quality of the education it provides.
- The organization uses its human resources
effectively.
- The organization intentionally develops
its human resources to meet future changes.
- The organizations history of
financial resource development and investment documents a forward-looking
concern for ensuring educational quality (e.g. investments in faculty
development, technology, learning support services, new or renovated
facilities.
- The organizations planning processes
are flexible enough to respond to unanticipated needs for program
reallocation, downsizing, or growth.
- The organization has a history of achieving
its planning goals.
Core Component 2C. The organizations
ongoing evaluation and assessment processes provide reliable evidence
of institutional effectiveness that clearly informs strategies for
continuous improvement.
Examples
of Evidence:
- The organization demonstrates that
its evaluation processes provide evidence that its performance meets
its stated expectations for institutional effectiveness.
- The organization maintains effective
systems for collecting, analyzing, and using organizational information.
- Appropriate data and feedback loops
are available and used throughout the organization to support continuous
improvement.
- Periodic reviews of academic and administrative
subunits contribute to improvement of the organization.
- The organization provides adequate
support for its evaluation and assessment processes.
Core Component 2D. All levels of
planning align with the organizations mission, thereby enhancing
its capacity to fulfill that mission.
Examples
of Evidence:
- Coordinated planning processes center
on the mission documents that define vision, values, goals, and
strategic priorities for the organization.
- Planning processes link with budgeting
processes.
- Implementation of the organizations
planning is evident in its operation.
- Long-range
strategic planning processes allow for reprioritizing of goals when
necessary because of changing environments.
- Planning documents give evidence of
the organizations awareness of the relationships among educational
quality, student learning, and the diverse, complex, global, and
technological world in which the organization and its students exist.
- Planning processes involve internal
constituents and, where appropriate, external constituents.
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