Criterion 1: Mission
The website, the Strategic Plan, and posted in offices throughout campus.
How are the college's Mission, Vision, and Values articulated publicly?
A repository for rules and processes that ensures fair and ethical operations in SFCC's financial, academic, personnel, and auxiliary functions.
What are policies and regulations?
This faculty-centered group reviews and approves courses or programs, including learning objectives and other expectations.
What is the Curriculum Committee?
Each program group reviews its data to determine performance issues and develop Improvement Plans to improve performance.
What is Program Review?
A roadmap for the future vision for facility needs and maintenance, land and natural resource managements, project growth, and strategies to achieve planning goals.
What is the Campus Master Plan?
One of the college's core values, this celebrates the many races, ethnicities, life styles, and backgrounds among our campus community.
What is diversity?
It's where SFCC presents information to students and the public with regard to its programs, requirements, faculty and staff, cost to students, control, and accreditation relationships.
What is the Consumer Information page of the website?
Institutional, Program, and Course varieties outline learning objectives in all programs and activities at SFCC.
What are Outcomes? (Learning Outcomes)
End-of-program assessments required by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education for all CTE programs funded by the Carl Perkins grant.
What are Technical Skills Attainment tests? (TSAs)
It contains details of SFCC's technology resources, systems, and operations.
What is the (Ellucian) ITS Plan?
It fulfills SFCC's mission to provide relevant and innovative learning experiences to businesses and industries in our service area.
What is the LearningForce?
Published in the annual President's Report and on the website, this document discloses SFCC's progress on Key Performance Indicators, including student success, community outreach, and financial status.
What is the Report Card?
Used for all courses taught at the main campus, at remote sites, online, and at dual credit locations, it ensures equivalent quality no matter the location or mode of delivery.
What is a Master Course Shell?
It includes procedures for Program and Discipline Review, Course Learning Outcomes, Program Learning Outcomes, General Education Outcomes, Co-Curricular Assessments, and Surveys to measure institutional effectiveness.
What is the Assessment and Institutional Effectiveness Plan? (Assessment Plan)
It standardizes and communicates procedures hiring managers follow in selecting and on-boarding new employees.
What is the Hiring Manual?
It contains SFCC's mission, vision, and values, in addition to Priorities, strategies, and goals to guide SFCC until 2020.
What is the 2020 Vision: Strategic Plan?
With representatives from faculty, staff, and students, this newly established branch of SFCC's decision-making structure was an outcome of the Shared Leadership project.
What is the College Council?
A credit hour block of general education courses established by the Missouri Coordinating Board of Higher Education that addresses communications, higher-order thinking, managing information, and valuing others.
What is Core 42?
Implemented in January 2018, it includes data about the financial impact of enrollment losses and identifies strategies to recruit underrepresented groups, investigate adding low-cost sports teams, recruiting non-traditional students, and implementing at Customer Relationship Management (CMR) system.
What is the Strategic Enrollment Management Plan?
It outlines the procedures for developing budget requests, budget assumptions, and financial decisions.
What is the Annual Budgeting Process?
State Fair Community College provides relevant and innovative learning experiences that successfully prepare students for college transfer, career development and lifelong learning. State Fair Community College is committed to being accessible and affordable; values collaborative partnerships; and strengthens and enriches the intellectual, economic, and cultural vitality of the communities it serves.
What is SFCC's mission?
An elected council that has the authority to adopt policy for governance, delegate day-to-day operations to the president and her staff, and appraise the president and the Strategic Plan.
What is the Board of Trustees?
They provide academic advising for students and work with faculty to create student success teams within areas of study.
What are Navigators?
Adopted recently through the Multi-State Collaborative, this process provides assessment of student work and comparison to work submitted by other two- and four- year colleges to determine whether students are mastering competencies identified for their courses and programs.
What are VALUE Rubrics?
It guides the inter-relationship of planning, budget, and assessment in SFCC's operations.
What is the SFCC Planning, Budget, and Assessment Cycle?