Criterion One
Excellence. Collaboration. Integrity. Respect.
What are Sandburg's Core Values?
A governing group which is autonomous to make decisions in the best interest of the College, adopt policies, and ensure institutional integrity.
What is the Board of Trustees?
This program forms the foundation of all associate degrees awarded.
What is the general education program?
An index of all current degrees, programs, and certificates offered at Sandburg, including course descriptions and pathways.
What is the academic catalog?
These include the Faculty Teaching and Learning Center, technology services, professional development team, Foundation Innovation Grants, and Human Resources.
What are examples of faculty resources?
"To provide all students with opportunities for success."
What is Sandburg's Mission?
A manual of principles and practices adopted by the Board and designed to guide the College.
What is the Policy, Regulation, and Procedure Manual?
These include agriculture, business, education, health science, information technology, manufacturing, and public service.
What are career pathways?
Annual assessments of personnel performance based on Sandburg’s four Core Values.
What are faculty and staff evaluations?
A detailed narrative of the College’s expected revenues and expenses for the next five years, allowing constituents to analyze and interpret the College’s performance and alignment to the strategic plan.
What is the budget book?
"Where dreams come to life and lives come to change."
What is Sandburg's Vision Statement?
A student’s freedom to express ideas without the risk of official interference or professional/educational disadvantage.
What is academic freedom?
These focus on five key areas determined to support student success, including communication, critical thinking, cultural diversity, information technology, and quantitative skills.
What are the General Education Outcomes (GEO's)?
An annual process that allows Sandburg to continually make improvements to its programs based on available data.
What is program review?
Data points that assess institutional and departmental progress toward strategic plan goals and objectives.
What are Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)?
A document used to support and operationalize the mission by establishing institutional goals and planned actions to achieve those goals.
What is the strategic plan?
This includes the College Navigator, net price calculator, student code of conduct, student complaint policies and procedures, and student outcomes information.
What is student consumer information?
A faculty member who has the appropriate education and credentials to teach in each program. This is ensured through institutional hiring practices and evaluation rubrics.
What is qualified faculty?
Annual reports required for all full-time and adjunct instructors which assess GEO progress, apply outcomes assessment techniques, and share best practices.
What are Classroom Assessment Reports (CARs)?
The systematic collection, review, and use of information about educational quality, undertaken for the purpose of improving programs, services, student learning, and development.
What is institutional assessment?
Commodities or services provided to all members of a community, which establish the educational role of serving the public over the institution.
What is public good?
HLC defines these as a set of practices shared by institutions of higher education. These include integrity and ethical conduct, teaching and learning quality and evaluation, and institutional effectiveness.
What are assumed practices?
Tools, resources, and training sessions for educators to improve their teaching quality, effectiveness, and shared knowledge.
What is professional development?
A committee made up of faculty, staff, students, and administrators which assesses academic and cocurricular areas of the student experience.
What is the Outcomes Assessment Committee (OAC)?
A structure and process for partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership in institutional operations which includes leadership, faculty, staff, students, and constituents.
What is shared governance?