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Organizational Culture Project Plans 2000-2002

1-A. 

Colleges will conduct thorough assessments of their organizational cultures and determine features that support or hinder the move to become more learning-centered institutions.

Outcomes:
  • Incorporated Vanguard objectives into campus initiatives/priorities/ strategic planning process

  • Created new vision statement and revised mission statement to support learning-centered principles in philosophy, intent, and in language

  • Introduced Leadership and Core Values initiative

  • Conducted survey of campus values

  • Conducted Learning College Inventory

  • Established Task Group on Civility - 3R's: Respect, Responsibility, Rights

  • Conducted benchmarking to determine college's features that support/hinder movement toward becoming a world-class learning college

  • Introduced Academic Affairs vision statement to support student learning

  • Revised procedures in Academic Affairs to support student success 

  • Focused on creating a more welcoming and affirming student-centered environment:
    New Testing and Assessment Center
    Redesigned computer lab spaces in the Center for Contemporary 
    Technology
    Enhanced the learning environment in the Library

  • Formed Teaching and Learning Team 2000 to focus on:
    Adjunct faculty
    Technology
    New faculty recruitment
    Celebrating contributions of retiring faculty

  • Conducted campus-wide Learning Dialogs to foster relationship between all staff and learning college principles

  • Focused college inservice on learning college principles; requested faculty to document activities that support student learning

  • Incorporated discussion of learning college principles as agenda item at new employee orientation 

 

 
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