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In Chapter 19 of 19 in his 2013 Capture Your Flag interview, leadership philosopher Bijoy Goswami answers "What Goals are You Setting as You Look to What Comes Next in Your Career?" Goswami shares why he does not use goals and milestones to assess performance and motivate progress. He finds goals to be limiting and instead focuses on a journey focused neither on safety nor outcome. Bijoy Goswami is a writer, teacher, and community leader based in Austin, Texas. He develops learning...
Topics: why not to set goals, performance measurement, outcomes, the case against mission statements, why...
While historically higher education has utilized many different planning paradigms and elements, two concepts (strategic planning and operational planning) can be presented as the major planning concepts into which the various paradigms can be placed. Starting in fall 1991, Seminole Community College developed a planning model which integrated strategic and operational planning with the production of college-wide measures of institutional effectiveness. The model has the following...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, Community Colleges, Institutional Mission, Literature Reviews, Long...
Stressing the ongoing need for comprehensive higher education opportunities in the Springfield, Ohio, area, this operating plan details the changes and growth that will occur as a result of the expanded mission of Clark State Community College (CSCC). Chapter 1 provides introductory information on the recent approval of CSCC's change of status from a technical institute to a community college, the college's mission statement, and an organizational chart. Chapter 2 demonstrates that significant...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Adult Education, Articulation (Education), College Planning, Community Colleges,...
This report discusses the formulation of a common mission statement by the South Dakota Board of Regents System of state-supported higher education. Twelve directions are identified in light of the system's needs and the state environment in South Dakota. These include: (1) ensuring the quality of undergraduate education; (2) selectively improving specific graduate programs; (3) creating a quality teaching and learning environment; (4) developing areas of excellence; (5) embracing pluralism;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Administration, College Instruction, College Planning, College Programs,...
This report of a Texas task force centers on state policy for educating students with disabilities, the foundation for the policy, and strategies for implementing the policy goals. The 32-member task force included teachers, school administrators, parents, community service professionals, and others. The need for restructuring services for students with disabilities is discussed, with attention to characteristics of students in special education, including grade level patterns, gender, race and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Advisory Committees, Change Strategies, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational...
The need for a reconsideration of policy in the Utah library community is driven by three factors: (1) the success of the Upgrade Process and state development grants in developing local library service; (2) the rapid expansion of revolutionary network technology; and (3) changing patterns of federal funding. This paper focuses on specific programming and funding proposals for the following: library services for the blind and physically handicapped, county bookmobiles, development services,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Bookmobiles, Change, County Programs, Disabilities, Grants, Interlibrary Loans,...
El Camino College, California, is a public two-year college in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County. The El Camino College District encompasses 5 high school districts, 12 elementary school districts and nine cities, with a population of almost 1 million. The district is governed by a five-member Board of Trustees, each representing one of the five school districts. In fall 2001, 24.6% of students were Caucasian, 29% Hispanic, 16.6% African American, 15.1% Asian, 3.3% Filipino, and 0.5%...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Ancillary School Services,...
Guidelines are presented that were produced as a result of discussions at a gathering of international scholars and practitioners at an international seminar on "Sustaining Local Literacies: People, Language, and Power," organized by Education for Development and held at the University of Reading (United Kingdom) on March 19-20, 1993. During the seminar, it was felt that there is a need to redress the misleading images and representations of literacy and language work that dominate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, International Cooperation,...
This annual report provides a blueprint for higher education in Missouri and reviews activities undertaken throughout the state to further these goals. It outlines the vision statement for higher education in the state and summarizes the 1996 Governor's Conference on Higher Education. The report goes on to discuss the state's plan for postsecondary technical education and telecommunication-based delivery systems. It reviews programmatic initiatives at various institutions, partnerships,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Objectives, Educational Planning, Futures (of Society), Grants, Higher...
Designed to assist faculty, staff, and administrators in understanding the strategic planning process at Florida's Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) and to help them develop guidelines to measure the effectiveness of their unit, department, or administrative area, this report outlines the key missions of the community college, presents sample criteria and measures specific to the strategic planning process, and includes an institutional self-assessment instrument. First, an introductory section...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accreditation (Institutions), College Administration, College Outcomes Assessment,...
Every 5 years, Johnson County Community College (JCCC), in Overland Park, Kansas, conducts a study of community perceptions to measure the level of community satisfaction with the overall mission of the college. Specifically, the studies seek to measure constituents' awareness of JCCC's role, their support of the college's activities to fulfill this role, and their perceptions of JCCC's performance. The 1992 study gathered data from 15-minute telephone interviews of 524 randomly selected adults...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Attitudes, Community Colleges,...
This plan for the Community College of San Francisco (CCSF) documents the steps necessary to foster the appropriate use of current and emerging information technologies to systematically integrate educational technology into the curriculum and into student services. Following an executive summary, Part One introduces the plan, including a mission statement, scope, premise, goals, and student outcomes. Part Two provides background information, including the state of the institution, the purpose...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Distance...
This report summarizes the activities of the South Carolina State Library for 1997-1998. Sections include: (1) library governance and mission statement; (2) brief library history; (3) details about the organization and operations of the library, including a description of each of the six departments, an organizational chart, a list of library staff, highlights of the year, a financial statement, and a graph of expenditures; (4) data on library services, including services to state government,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Libraries, Grants, Institutional Libraries, Library Administration, Library...
This study explored faculty views about a new concept, departmental vision. Since the literature presents many different views of what the term "vision" encompasses, this study sought to establish criteria useful in an academic setting. The study was conducted at a large midwestern public research university; data were collected through a series of semi-structured interviews with 32 faculty members, using subsets of research questions based upon A. Biglan's (1973) model of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Departments, Educational Objectives, Faculty College Relationship, Group Dynamics,...
In its major policy document, "Basic Agenda: Policy Directions and Priorities for the Nineties," the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC) specifies goals and objectives necessary for the system's 107 community colleges. Following the format of the Basic Agenda, this 1992-93 status report provides an update on the implementation of these goals and objectives. Following a brief introduction, the six sections of this report examine the areas of mission, access,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Affirmative Action, College Planning, Community Colleges,...
Until 1993, the discussion of teacher education reform in the literature was limited to individual authors' suggestions for a vocational education response to reform initiatives and comments on the problems posed by pressures for reform. Debate on how to pursue excellence in vocational teacher education programs focused on vocational education's mission, audience, and delivery. Sharp (1996) recommended changing education so future teachers can develop a core work force with technical and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education,...
This qualitative account of a magnet school, California's Ibsen School (grades 4-12), addresses teachers' professional identities and the shaping of them. In most high schools, teachers' professional identities are shaped by subject cultures. At Ibsen, a schoolwide community has developed because of its mission and in the leadership of its principal. Characteristics of the principal are described. This case study of Ibsen School illustrates impediments to a schoolwide professional community of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Case Studies, Cultural Context, High Schools, Magnet Schools, Mission Statements,...
Mission statements can provide a useful vehicle to communicate the purposes, goals, and objectives for functional units within organizations. This paper studied the extent to which institutional research offices utilize mission statements to communicate office functions. These functions were identified through content analysis, using nine specific characteristics: internal reporting; planning support; external reporting; conducting research studies; data management; decision-making support;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Administration, College Planning, Communications, Decision Making,...
The instructor of a course focusing on basic academic and job readiness skills for welfare recipients at the Goodwill Employment Help Center in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, conducted an action research project to determine whether developing personal mission statements would increase students' motivation in her course. As new students were accepted into the course, they were asked to participate in the following activities: (1) complete a questionnaire about their attitudes; (2) participate in an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Attitude...
At Lethbridge Community College (LCC) in Lethbridge, Alberta, widely acknowledged as Canada's first community college, personal and professional development is stressed for all staff and students. The mission of LCC is to meet the needs of adults throughout their lives by providing excellent learning opportunities through high quality programs and services. Demand for these programs at the college is determined by three factors: employment opportunities for graduates; career interests of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgets, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Development, Educational...
Designed to inform administrative and teaching staff at Quebec's colleges of the Commission d'evaluation de l'enseignement collegial's (CEEC's) procedure for evaluating programs of study, this report provides information on the CEEC's approach and the colleges' role, and expands on previous guidelines issued by the CEEC. Following a brief introduction, chapter 1 summarizes the CEEC's approach and outlines the following steps in the program evaluation process: an advisory body is formed to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Colleges, Educational Improvement, Educational Legislation, Evaluation...
Prepared for a site visit by the North Central Association (NCA), this report describes the goals and vision of New Mexico State University's two-year branch campus at Carlsbad (NMSU-C) through the year 2000. The first section states the mission, goals, and purposes of NMSU-C, while the second describes six campus-wide initiatives to be completed by the year 2000 and related implementation strategies. The next section provides the vision statements and college planning model for academic...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrative Organization, College Planning, Community Colleges, Institutional...
This report summarizes the activities of the South Carolina State Library for 1995-1996. Sections include: (1) library governance and mission statement; (2) brief library history; (3) details about the organization and operations of the library, including a description of each of six departments with a list of employees and their duties, an organizational chart, highlights of the year, a financial statement, and chart illustrating total expenditures; (4) data on library services to state...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Expenditures, Higher Education, Library Acquisition, Library Administration, Library...
Providing information on programs, students, and faculty at the University of Hawaii Community Colleges, this report reviews data for the 1990-91 academic and fiscal years (FYs). The first section reviews systemwide accomplishments for the year, describes efforts related to international education, and presents an agenda for action. The organizational structure and mission of the colleges are then presented and 1990-91 data are provided on enrollment, degrees and certificates awarded, tuition,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Educational Certificates, Educational Finance,...
This statement abstracts the theoretical framework for the Appalachian Collaborative Center for Learning, Assessment, and Instruction in Mathematics (ACCLAIM). ACCLAIM's mission is the cultivation of indigenous leadership capacity for the improvement of school mathematics in rural places. The mission addresses local organizational ability to (1) understand the rural context as it pertains to learning and teaching mathematics, and (2) articulate the meaning and utility of that learning for and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Context Effect, Educational Needs, Institutional Mission, Mathematics Education,...
San Antonio College (SAC), Texas, identifies its strategic goals and objectives in this comprehensive plan for 2001-2002. Strategic goal 1.1.97 states that the college will modify existing strategies and initiate new strategies that will support students in achieving their educational goals. In support of this goal, SAC identifies a number of objectives, including the following: by August 2003, 70% of full-time FTIC students who did not receive remediation in the fall will be retained through...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Educational...
This document provides an understanding of the South Carolina Technical College System, System office vision, missions, and values as well as an overview of key strategic goals of the system as a whole. The report was compiled by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education. The six goals that guide the system are ensuring excellence and value, achieving greater efficiency and effectiveness, providing responsible and flexible access to education, developing a world class workforce,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Community Colleges, Institutions, Master Plans, Mission Statements,...
This paper analyzes the mission statement of a small liberal arts college: (1) to establish a rationale for examining a mission statement from a postmodern perspective, which will aid in the understanding of the context within which the mission statement and accompanying goals were developed and produced; (2) to clarify the multiple voices and readings of the rhetorical act, by identifying the ultimate terms used in the act and the clusters associated with them; and (3) to identify conflicts...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Audience Awareness, Cluster Analysis, Conflict, Cultural Context, Higher Education,...
Minister of Municipal Affairs: Dennis L. Anderson
Topics: City planning, Mission statements, Strategic planning, Planning, Social prediction, Population...
Each year, the U.S. Air Force Academy, the U.S. Military Academy, and the U.S. Naval Academy combined spend tens of millions of dollars to operate preparatory schools that provide an alternative avenue for about 700 students annually to gain admission to the service academies. The Department of Defense (DOD) requested that the General Accounting Office (GAO) review the 3 service academies and specifically assess the following: (1) the adequacy of their current mission statements; (2) the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Armed Forces, Articulation (Education), Educational Assessment,...
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This handbook presents state guidelines for alternative education in Mississippi, which is designed to serve as a learning alternative placement for students who have had difficulty with the regular classroom environment or who have experienced disciplinary problems in the classroom or school. The handbook contains the following sections: (1) mission statement; (2) excerpts from relevant state law; (3) excerpts from State Board of Education policy providing guidelines for placement in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Behavior Disorders, Curriculum Design, Elementary Secondary...
This report discusses leadership development as a major area of the new mission statement developed by the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). It includes a brief overview of the March 2001 AACC Leadership Summit and presents a summary of goals and strategies. In 2001, AACC renewed its mission statement to address the impending shortage of community college leaders resulting from an unprecedented number of retirements over the next decade. The new AACC mission statement includes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Administrators, College Presidents, Community Colleges, Leadership Effectiveness,...
According to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), the primary purpose of an ACCJC-accredited institution is to foster learning in its students. This paper presents ACCJC's four accreditation standards: (1) Institutional Mission and Effectiveness--the institution provides means for students to learn, assesses learning effectiveness, and strives to improve that learning through ongoing, systematic, and integrated planning; (2) Student Learning Programs and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Ancillary School Services,...
This document reports on an evaluation of physical education programs in grades K-12 in Des Moines (Iowa). The document is divided into seven parts. Part 1, "Introduction," reviews the mission and philosophies regarding teaching physical education. Part 2, "Context Evaluation," summarizes Iowa state policies, standards, and regulations; provides a program overview of physical education at the elementary and high school levels including specific course content; and describes...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Course Content, Course Objectives, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation,...
In an era of diminishing public resources, community college departments need a budgetary system in which options are clearly spelled out, consequences projected, priorities delineated, and budget requests made that are functional and provide useful results. Unfortunately, few colleges and even fewer departments are developing and utilizing such systems. Department chairs, in their budgetary submissions, may do little more than roll over previous years' requests. Discussions with department...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Budgeting, College Planning, Community Colleges, Department Heads, Departments,...
This annual report provides information on the CAL Community School, a small K-12 school that serves the communities of Alexander, Coulter, and Latimer, Iowa. The mission of the school is to provide a positive educational environment, maintain high academic standards, and promote the value of life-long learning among students. In addition, the school encourages students' character development through valuing respect, integrity, positive relationships, personal responsibility, citizenship, and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Achievement, Annual Reports, Community Schools, Curriculum, Educational...
The purpose of Lake Forest College's 1986 self-study was to provide the North Central Association's Commission on Institutions of Higher Education Evaluation Team with materials needed for reaccreditation; to evaluate Lake Forest's efforts to fulfill the purposes and meet the goals established in the new mission statement; and to evaluate the system of planning and self-evaluation built into the college's governance system. Information includes a look at Lake Forest College; the new mission...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academic Standards, Accreditation (Institutions), Faculty College Relationship,...
The statutory responsibilities of the community colleges, as reflected in Connecticut General Statutes 10a-80, are: (1) to provide programs of occupational, vocational, technical, and career education designed to provide training for immediate employment, job training, or upgrading of skills to meet individual, community, and statewide work needs; (2) to provide general programs including, but not limited to, remediation, general and adult and continuing education designed to meet student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Ancillary School Services, Community Colleges, Educational...
North Arkansas Community/Technical College (NACTC) was formed in July 1993 by the consolidation of a community and technical college in the community of Harrison, Arkansas, but used the mission statement, goals, and institutional objectives developed by the community college. A project was undertaken to develop a process for reviewing and revising NACTC's mission statement, goals, and institutional objectives, focusing on the type of process that should be developed and the activities and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Environmental Scanning,...
This report contains focus statements and priorities statements from 11 public universities in Illinois: Chicago State University, Eastern Illinois University, Governors State University, Illinois State University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northern Illinois University, Western Illinois University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Illinois at Springfield, and the University...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, College Planning, Community Development, Cultural Pluralism,...
In continuing and building upon past efforts, the National Center for the Study of Writing and Literacy, in collaboration with researchers and practitioners around the world, is forging new theoretical and pedagogical directions in writing and literacy. The Center's research projects and activities aim to respond boldly and straightforwardly to the critical challenges facing educators across grade levels and curriculum areas. These challenges urge educators to move beyond the generalities of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Mission Statements, Research Needs,...
This report presents an overview and the philosophy of a particular Summerbridge National Project program conducted at the San Francisco University High School. The program offers talented and diverse middle school students an intense 6-week academic enrichment program taught by bright, motivated high school and college students. The program prepares rising seventh and eighth graders for success at academic high schools, and provides opportunities for high school and college students to have an...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Admission Criteria, Budgets, Enrichment, Grade 7, Grade 8, High...
Designed to focus on the implications of change, Macomb Community College has comprised a list of the top ten issues facing America's community colleges today. Diversity is the first issue that community colleges face. Each college should develop a unique mission statement and respond to the changing needs of the community and the marketplace. The second major issue is open access. While open access has created diversity in the classroom, it has also made the task of meeting the individual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Access to Education, Articulation (Education), College Planning, Community Colleges,...
This document describes Tennessee's 1993 Master Plan for education and the state's progress toward achieving eight of its key goals. Goals are outlined for achieving results in the areas of early childhood education, primary and middle grades education, high school education, technology, professional development and teacher education, accountability, school leadership and school-based decision making, and funding. Following the mission and vision statements and overview, eight sections describe...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, Educational Finance, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives,...
This document presents Santa Barbara City College's 1999-2002 College Plan. It is intended to be used as the central organizing document for decision making, planning, and budgeting throughout the College during the 1999-2002 period. This plan is the result of thoughtful and substantive dialogue involving individuals and groups throughout the College, which considered the challenges the College faces as a result of the fundamental transformations occurring in higher education, the community,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Planning, Community Colleges, Educational Planning, Educational Policy,...
Although the world has changed considerably in the past three decades, community colleges and their guiding missions have largely not adapted to changing conditions. College mission statements tend to be unfocused documents that provide overly broad goals. In the business world, the mission statements of effective companies are brief, crisp, and clear, while even governmental and religious agencies manage to develop mission statements that are more focused and succinct than those of community...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Accountability, College Administration, College Planning, College Role, Community...
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Topics: Corporate culture, Mission statements, Leadership, Culture d'entreprise, Énoncés de mission
