| Criterion One |
The organization
operates with integrity to ensure the fulfillment of its mission through
structures and processes that involve the board, administration, faculty,
staff, and students. |
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| Component a |
The organization’s
mission documents are clear and articulate publicly the organization’s
commitments. |
| Examples |
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The board has adopted
statements of mission, vision, values, goals, and organizational
priorities that together clearly and broadly define the organization’s
mission.
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The mission, vision,
values, and goals documents define the varied internal and external
constituencies the organization intends to serve.
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The mission documents
include a strong commitment to high academic standards that sustain and
advance excellence in higher learning.
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The mission documents
state goals for the learning to be achieved by its students.
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The organization regularly
evaluates and, when appropriate, revises the mission documents.
- The organization
makes the mission documents available to the public, particularly to
prospective and enrolled students.
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| Component b |
In its mission
documents, the organization recognizes the diversity of its learners, other
constituencies, and the greater society it serves. |
| Examples |
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In its mission documents,
the organization addresses diversity within the community values and
common purposes it considers fundamental to its mission.
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The mission documents
present the organization’s function in a multicultural society.
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The mission documents
affirm the organization’s commitment to honor the dignity and worth of
individuals.
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The organization’s
required codes of belief or expected behavior are congruent with its
mission.
- The mission
documents provide a basis for the organization’s basic strategies to
address diversity.
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| Component c |
Understanding of and
support for the mission pervade the organization. |
| Examples |
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The board, administration,
faculty, staff, and students understand and support the organization’s
mission.
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The organization’s
strategic decisions are mission-driven.
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The organization’s
planning and budgeting priorities flow from and support the mission.
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The goals of the
administrative and academic subunits of the organization are congruent
with the organization’s mission.
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The organization’s
internal constituencies articulate the mission in a consistent manner.
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| Component d |
The organization’s
governance and administrative structures promote effective leadership and
support collaborative processes that enable the organization to fulfill its
mission |
| Examples |
- Board
policies and practices document the board’s focus on the organization’s
mission.
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The board enables the
organization’s chief administrative personnel to exercise effective
leadership.
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The distribution of
responsibilities as defined in governance structures, processes, and
activities is understood and is implemented through delegated authority.
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People within the
governance and administrative structures are committed to the mission and
appropriately qualified to carry out their defined responsibilities.
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Faculty and other academic
leaders share responsibility for the coherence of the curriculum and the
integrity of academic processes.
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Effective communication
facilitates governance processes and activities.
- The organization
evaluates its structures and processes regularly and strengthens them as
needed.
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| Component e |
The organization upholds
and protects its integrity |
| Examples |
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The activities of the
organization are congruent with its mission.
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The board exercises its
responsibility to the public to ensure that the organization operates
legally, responsibly, and with fiscal honesty.
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The organization
understands and abides by local, state, and federal laws and regulations
applicable to it (or bylaws and regulations established by federally
recognized sovereign entities).
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The organization
consistently implements clear and fair policies regarding the rights and
responsibilities of each of its internal constituencies.
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The organization’s
structures and processes allow it to ensure the integrity of its
cocurricular and auxiliary activities.
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The organization deals
fairly with its external constituents.
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The organization presents
itself accurately and honestly to the public.
- The organization
documents timely response to complaints and grievances, particularly those
of students
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