3A Educational Programs
This sub-criterion focuses on maintaining learning goals and outcomes that reflect college-level rigor, ensuring each program’s content meets appropriate standards by level and discipline.
What is 3.A – Educational Programs?
This sub-criterion ensures that educational programs engage students in collecting, analyzing, and communicating information; practicing intellectual inquiry or creative work; and developing adaptable skills for changing environments.
What is 3B – Exercise of Intellectual Inquiry?
This sub-criterion ensures that the institution has the faculty and staff necessary to deliver effective, high-quality programs and student services.
What is 3C – Sufficiency of Faculty and Staff?
This sub-criterion ensures that the institution provides student support services addressing diverse student needs, along with teaching resources and infrastructure necessary for student success.
What is 3D – Support for Student Learning and Resources for Teaching?
This sub-criterion focuses on improving the quality of educational programs based on the institution's assessment of student learning.
What is 3E - Assessment of Student Learning?
This is one of the array of comprehensive academic credentials KKC offers to students.
What is Associate in Arts?
What is Associate in Science?
What is Associate in General Studies?
What is Associate in Applied Science?
What is the General Education Core Curriculum (GECC)?
This is encouraged of faculty when they are asked to present at conferences, conduct research, and publish their work to ensure their contributions extend beyond the classroom and advance their respective fields.
What is professional development?
This is who manages the day-to-day operations of academic departments and have release time for these duties.
What is department chairs?
This staff on campus aids students with application completion, portal access, financial aid options, and new student orientation scheduling.
What is admissions staff?
This is the meeting where academic and co-curricular programs presented their assessment plans to the college back in Spring 2024, allowing all divisions to present their plan of action, discuss challenges and collaborate on solutions.
What is the President's All Campus meeting?
To keep programs and courses aligned with academic and industry standards, Kennedy-King College uses this rigorous review process for new and revised curricula.
What is the Proposed Academic Curriculum Changes (PACC) process?
KKC promotes cultural awareness and inclusivity through this program requirement, which supports the college’s mission for “culturally diverse, exceptional, and globally competitive programs” and includes 37 IAI-approved courses across multiple disciplines.
What is the Human Diversity (HD) Requirement?
This is how many full-time faculty KKC has on board.
What is 58?
This department supports student success through a case management model, assigning each new student a dedicated advisor at the point of enrollment.
What is the advising center?
This committee leads assessment efforts involving faculty, student support, and auxiliary services to evaluate comprehensive student learning outcomes (SLOs).
What is the Executive Assessment Committee (EAC)?
KKC follows these guidelines to ensure faculty qualifications meet academic standards, requiring a master’s degree or 18 graduate credit hours in the primary teaching area, 30 hours for secondary fields, and allowing exceptions through an Equivalent Experience Policy.
What are CCC Credential Guidelines?
These outcomes at KKC emphasize critical thinking, effective communication, quantitative reasoning, scientific literacy, cultural awareness, and ethical responsibility, providing a unified framework for assessing student achievement across all programs.
What are the Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs)?
KKC uses this to further enhance the pedagogical and content knowledge of its faculty to enrich student learning.
What is faculty development week? What is Tenure Assistance Process? What is Card D. Perkins Grant? What is sabbatical leave?
This program, which is held every semester, provides workshops on topics like test-taking, time-management, and relaxation skills.
This is one of the six institutional learning outcomes that represent the essential knowledge, skills, and values all students are expected to demonstrate.
What is communication, quantitative literacy, technological and information fluency, problem solving, global citizenship, and personal development and creativity?
KKC participates in this statewide agreement that allows students to seamlessly transfer general education and major-level courses among more than 100 Illinois colleges and universities. It requires courses to meet strict content standards set by panels of experts and includes over 138 approved courses at KKC.
What is the Illinois Articulation Initiative (IAI)?
This resource at KKC establishes an ongoing process for implementing best practices in assessment by mapping courses and programs, systematically evaluating course-level learning outcomes, and continuously reviewing assessment strategies.
What is the KKC Assessment Handbook?
To encourage reflective practice and continuous improvement in teaching, Academic Affairs distributes these to faculty to be completed int he period between the midterm and last week of the course.
What is course evaluation form?
This fund provides critical, short-term financial assistance to students and students may only apply once through a confidential and streamlined process.
What is the student emergency fund?
This was designed and implemented by the Executive Assessment Committee to assist faculty and staff in developing ongoing assessment plans that accurately reflect student learning.
What is the Divisional Assessment Plan (DAP) guide sheet?