Criterion 1
The main focus of Criterion 1.
What is Mission?
The main focus of Criterion 2.
Integrity: Ethical and Responsible Conduct
The main focus of criterion 3.
What is Teaching and Learning: Quality, Resources, and Support
The main focus of Criterion 4.
What is Teaching and Learning: Evaluation and Improvement?
The main focus of criterion 5.
What is Institutional Effectiveness, Resources, and Planning?
One of the voices narrating the video for Criterion 1.
Who are Bill Faber, Laura Caulk, and Francisco Ramirez?
The group of people who are the focus of criterion 2.
What is the governing board (or GRCC's Board of Trustees)?
This part of our degree-seeking students' education is "grounded in a philosophy or framework developed by the institution or adopted from an established framework."
What is general education?
How GRCC ensures the quality of our educational offerings.
What are Program Reviews (or Annual Program Reviews)?
The engagement of internal constituencies through planning, policies, and procedures.
What is shared governance?
List two aspects that a mission statement can include for any institution (GRCC includes some of these in our mission statement).
What are instruction, scholarship, research, application of research, creative works, clinical service, public service, economic development and religious or cultural purpose.
Three of the four areas of institutional integrity at GRCC.
What are financial, academic, human resources and auxiliary functions?
Faculty and staff have the appropriate degrees and training to do their jobs.
What is credentialed?
Some programs require this because it is appropriate to its educational purposes.
What is specialized accreditation?
The link between processes for assessment of student learning, evaluation, and operations.
What is budgeting?
Community service or any number of other efforts (by individuals or groups) intended to address issues of public or community concern
What is Civic Engagement?
The ability to engage differences of opinion, evaluate evidence and form one’s own grounded judgments about the relative value of competing perspectives.
What is academic freedom?
GRCC provides __________ that is "suited to its offerings and the needs of its students."
What is academic advising?
A common tool that an institution uses to improve student learning.
What are assessments?
External factors such as technology, demographics shifts, globalization, economics, and state support are anticipated during this process.
What is institutional planning?
The mission of GRCC.
What is "GRCC is an open access college that prepares individuals to attain their goals and contribute to the community."
Academic offerings, requirements, faculty and staff, costs to students, governance structure and accreditation relationships.
What are the items that an institution must "...ensures the accuracy of any representations it makes?"
The Office of Teaching, Learning & Distance Education (TLDE) and Tutoring Centers.
What are the infrastructure and resources necessary to support effective teaching and learning (for students and instructors)?
Student retention, persistence, and completion.
What are ambitious and attainable institutional goals appropriate to GRCC's mission, student populations, and educational offerings?
The institution has __________ and ______________ and infrastructure sufficient to support its operations.
What are qualified and trained operational staff?