To provide an education that prepares graduates to obtain employment or advancement in their chosen field, continue their education, and be contributing members of society.
What is Central Penn's Mission?
100
The Board of Directors, Senior Leaders, Academic Council, Faculty Senate, and Student Government Association participate in this.
What is Shared Governance?
100
The number of programs that Central
Penn offers.
What is 18?
100
This systematic process begins annually between April and August.
What is the strategic planning cycle (or process)?
100
The College employs these individuals to deliver the academic programs and offerings.
What are faculty?
200
The Brand Line
What is You Can. You Will.?
200
Individuals who oversee the strategic goals of the college and work with operational plans under their goal.
What are the SGF's?
200
A Simpson, or a program for students on probation.
What is BART?
200
These initiatives (BART, College Advisors, Brand, Organizational Leadership, and Online Learning) were a result of this process.
What is assessment, planning, budgeting, and resource allocation?
200
This individual oversees program level assessment and works with other faculty to identify necessary changes that cause programs to remain relevant.
What is a Program Champion?
300
The College relies on these documents (Mission, Vision, Big Eight Philosophies, Core Values, and Brand) to remain focused on student success. They are known collectively as this.
What are foundation documents?
300
Some of Central Penn's academic programs follow guidelines by a national accrediting body. Central Penn follows guidelines of this regional accreditor who will visit from March 10-13.
What is Middle States?
300
The process a faculty member uses to update or change programs to ensure that they are up-to-date and relevant.
What is Curriculum Review?
300
Implemented in 2012, this survey will help the College assess student engagement.
What is NSSE or the National Survey of Student Engagement?
300
An organization in the Middle East or a list of things students will learn.
What are Program Learning Objectives or PLOs?
400
The two prominent measures used by the College to measure its success and fulfillment of its mission.
What are the One-Year and Five-Year Graduate Surveys?
400
This process is ongoing, organized, systematized, and sustained. Important goals and improvements should clearly stem from this.
What is assessment?
400
Faculty utilize these to ensure quality for the delivery of online educational offerings.
What are The Online Equivalency Standards?
400
In 2012, these offices responded to increases in the regulatory environment and auditing processes. These processes serve as a measure of evaluation, assessment, and improvement.
What is The Business and Financial Aid offices?
400
The faculty's decision making body that recommends academic changes at the College.
What is Faculty Senate?
500
This plan provides indicators to demonstrate the degree to which the College is achieving its mission and goals.
What is The Strategic Plan?
500
In 2012, Central Penn implemented this document to clarify how we conduct ourselves and business.
What is the Code of Business Conduct & Ethics?
500
In order to graduate students who understand appropriate resources to use for research, the Librarians and faculty dedicate time and energy to this initiative.
What is Information Literacy?
500
These offices utilized information from the Brand Study to change its internal processes and positively change the type of student who attends Central Penn.
What is Admission, Enrollment and/or Marketing Services?
500
General Education Faculty and Program Faculty work together to fulfill these outcomes.
What are Institutional Learning Objectives (ILOs)?