Achieving Educational Objectives through Core Functions
The institution actively values and promotes scholarship, creative activity, and curricular and instructional innovation, as well as their dissemination at levels and of the kinds appropriate to the institution’s purposes and character.
The institution recognizes and promotes appropriate linkages among scholarship, teaching, student learning and service.
Developing and Applying Resources and Organizational Structures to Ensure Sustainability
The institution sustains its operations and supports the achievement of its educational objectives through its investment in human, physical, fiscal, and information resources and through an appropriate and effective set of organizational and decision-making structures. These key resources and organizational structures promote the achievement of institutional purposes and educational objectives and create a high quality environment for learning.
The institution systematically engages full-time non-tenure track, adjunct, and part-time faculty in such processes as assessment, program review, and faculty development.
The institution maintains appropriate and sufficiently supported faculty and staff development activities designed to improve teaching and learning, consistent with its institutional objectives.
The institution provides training and support for faculty members teaching by means off technology-mediated instruction.
Creating an Organization Committed to Learning and Improvement
The institution, with significant faculty involvement, engages in ongoing inquiry into the processes of teaching and learning, as well as the conditions and practices that promote thehe kinds and levels of learning intended by the institution. The outcomes of such inquiries arere applied to the design of curricula, the design and practice of pedagogy, and to the im-provement of evaluation means and methodology.