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Calumet College of St. Joseph
College Family
AQIP Forum
July 23, 2012
Quality Check-up Visit
August 22-23, 2012
AQIP Overview
What is HLC?
What is AQIP?
Why are they coming?
What are they going to do?
How will you be involved?
What have we done to
prepare?
What will be the result of the
visit?
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) is an
independent corporation and one of two
commission members of the North Central
Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA),
which is one of six regional institutional
accreditors in the United States. The Higher
Learning Commission accredits degree-granting
post-secondary educational institutions in the
North Central region..
Accreditation
Accreditation
In the United States, colleges and
universities voluntarily seek
accreditation from nongovernmental bodies. There are two
types of educational accreditation:
institutional and specialized. The
Higher Learning Commission
conducts institutional
accreditation.
NCATE would be an example of
specialized programatic
accreditation.
AQIP
•Academic Quality Improvement Program
infuses the principles and benefits of
continuous improvement into the culture of
colleges and universities by providing an
alternative process through which an
already-accredited institution can maintain
its accreditation. An institution in AQIP
demonstrates how it meets accreditation
standards and expectations through a
sequence of events that align with the
ongoing activities of an institution striving to
improve its performance.
AQIP
Categories
AQIP Category One: Helping Students
Learn
Focuses on the design, deployment,
and effectiveness of teaching-learning
processes that underlie your
organization’s credit and non-credit
programs and courses, and on the
processes required to support them.
AQIP Category Four: Valuing People
Explores your organization’s
commitment to the development of
your faculty, staff, and administrators.
AQIP Category Seven: Measuring
Effectiveness
Examines how your organization
collects, analyzes, distributes, and uses
data, information, and knowledge to
manage itself and to drive performance
improvement.
AQIP Category Two: Accomplishing Other
Distinctive Objectives
Addresses the key processes (separate
from your instructional programs and
internal support services) through which
you serve your external stakeholders —
the processes that contribute to achieving
your major objectives, fulfilling your
mission, and distinguishing yours from
other educational organizations.
AQIP Category Five: Leading and
Communicating
Addresses how your leadership and
communication processes, structures,
and networks guide your organization
in setting directions, making decisions,
seeking future opportunities, and
communicating decisions and actions
to your internal and external
stakeholders.
AQIP Category Eight: Planning
Continuous Improvement
Examines your organization’s planning
processes and how your strategies and
action plans help you achieve your
mission and vision.
AQIP Category Three: Understanding
Students’ and Other Stakeholders’
Needs
Examines how your organization works
actively to understand student and
other stakeholder needs.
AQIP Category Six: Supporting
Institutional Operations
Addresses the organizational support
processes that help to provide an
environment in which learning can
thrive.
AQIP Category Nine: Building
Collaborative Relationships
Examines your organization’s
relationships – current and potential –
to analyze how they contribute to the
organization’s accomplishing its
mission.
AQIP Projects
AQIP Category
Category One:
Helping Students Learn
Action Project Title
(Date Opened)
Primary
Strategic Plan Goal
Status
Learning Communities in Support of the CORE initiative
(04-09-2008)
III
Completed
Required 3 Credit Hour Orientation Course
(04-09-2008)
III
Completed
Pilot Test of a Draft of Assessment Plan
(09-01-2009)
III
Completed
Development of Foundational Learning Objectives
(08-01-2010)
II
Completed
Honors Learning Community
III
In Review / Pending Closure
Category Two:
Accomplishing Other Distinctive Objectives
Campaign: Experiential Learning Model
(04-09-2008)
III
Propose to Open 9/12
Category Three: Understanding Students’ and Other Stakeholders’ Needs
Review of Freshmen Retention Numbers
(10-01-2010)
III
Completed
(04-01-2011)
Latino Success Initiative
I
Active / Open
Campaign: Experiential Learning Advisory Boards
(04-09-2008)
III
Propose to Open 9/12
Latino Success Initiative
I
Active / Open
Service Learning Assessment & Development (Campus Compact)
(12-06-2011)
V
In Review / Pending Closure
Consumer Information Disclosure
(05-29-2012)
Category Four: Valuing People
(05-29-2012)
Category Five: Leading and Communicating
VI
In Review / Pending Closure
Marketing Campaign in Support of the CORE Initiative
(04-09-2008)
VI
Completed
Financial and Business Practices and Policies
(04-09-2008)
VI
Completed
Paperless and Online Forms of Operations
(11-10-2008)
VI
Completed
Improvement of CCSJ Registration Process
(05-01-2009)
VI
Completed
Development of Policies and Procedure Documents
(07-15-2010)
VI
Completed
EMPOWER Student Information System
(04-02-2012)
VI
In Review / Pending Closure
Assessment Data Pertaining to Graduates
(10-01-2010)
III
Completed
Online Course Evaluations
VI
In Review / Pending Closure
Campaign: Experiential Learning Best Practices
(04-09-2008)
III
Active / Open
Category Eight: Planning Continuous Improvement
External Review of Programs and Curriculum
(04-09-2008)
I
Active / Open
Category Nine:
Building Collaborative Relationships
High School Initiative
1
Active/Open
(08-01-2011)
Category Six: Supporting Institutional Operations
Category Seven: Measuring Effectiveness
(12-06-2011)
(08-01-2012)
What are they
going to do?
The Quality Checkup requires two or more
evaluators and occupies two or more days
on campus
Peer Reviewers:
Dr. Scott Epstein, Chair (reviewed the System Portfolio)
Dr. Jane Saulisbury
Goals of the AQIP Quality Checkup Visit
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Affirming the accuracy of the organization’s online Systems Portfolio
and verifying included information
Reviewing, with organizational leaders, Action Projects and
strategies identified to capitalize on the strengths and opportunities
for improvement
Assuring continuing organizational quality improvement
commitment
Confirming the institution’s compliance with accreditation
expectations and counseling the institution concerning any issues
that require immediate attention
Reviewing and updating the relationship between the institution
and the Commission
See Itinerary
How will you be
involved?
Be prepared to
answer
questions
Review the
Documents on
the Web
Knowledge of
Systems
Portfolio
CCSJ
Family
Be CCSJ
Friendly
Knowledge of
Strategic Plan
What have we done to prepare
for the visit?
Federal Compliance
•Credits, Program Length, and
Tuition
•Student Complaints
•Transfer Policies:
•Verification of Student Identity
•Title IV Program and Related
Responsibilities
•Institutional Disclosures and
Advertising
•Relationship with Other
Accrediting Agencies and with State
Regulatory Boards
•Public Notification of an Evaluation
Visit and Third Party Comment
Quality Check-up Summary
•Introduction
•Organization
•Systems Portfolio
•Strategic Plan
•Action Projects
•AQIP Campaign
Response to Systems Portfolio
•In Progress
Strategic Plan Aligned to AQIP
•See slide # 5
What will be the
result of the visit?
Feedback Report
5-7 pages of findings:
Response to System’s
Portfolio
Discussions
Compliance
AQIP Projects
Continue to submit AQIP
projects. If you have ideas
about great projects, let us
know.
Reaffirmation
AQIP STEERING COMMITTEE
Calumet College of St. Joseph
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Amy Comparon
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Tina Ebenger
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Eugene Finnegan
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Peter Haring
Darren Henderson
Melisha Henderson
Dionne Jones-Malone
Academic Affairs
Marcia Keith
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Joseph Kovach, PsyD.
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General Education
Dan Lowery, Ph.D.
Lynn Miskus
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Joi Patterson, Ph.D.
Confirmation by December
for another 7 years
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Director of Academic Support
Programs
Program Director of Social
Services
Program Director of Religious
Studies
Director of Athletics
Institutional Researcher
Vice President of Student Life
Associate Vice President of
Interim Director of Library
Services
Chair of Quantitative, Behavioral
& Social Sciences ~ Chair of
President
Vice President of Business &
Finance
Vice President of Academic
Affairs & Chief Operating
Officer/Academic Dean
Every CCSJ Family member is part of the process
Questions