Criterion Two: Preparing for the Future
The organization's allocation of resources and its processes for evaluation and planning demonstrate its capacity to fulfill its mission, improve the quality of its education, and respond to future challenges and opportunities.
Resources
Mission, Vision Strategic Planning and Strategic Initiatives
- NCA Faculty Survey (Fall 2008)
- NCA Staff Survey (Fall 2008)
- NCA Student Survey (Fall 2008)
- Ethnicity Report (Fall 2008)
- Program Prioritization Report
- Strategic Plan 1994
- Strategic Plan 1997
- Strategic Plan 2000
- Strategic Plan 2004 Fulfilling the Promise
- Distinctive Promise (Programs of Promise)
- Promising Scholars (Awardees)
- International Agreements
- College Nursing, Health, and Human Services merger ( Taskforce Report ; Provost's Response )
Unit Reports
- President's Annual Reports
- Departmental Profiles (2004-2007)
- Faculty annual reports
- Freshman Profiles
- Transfer Student Profiles
- List of major construction projects in excess of $750,000 (2000 – 2008)
Data on Faculty and Staff Performance and Development
- Faculty workload and distribution of effort
- Number of support staff completing HR training programs for past three years 2006 2007 2008
- List of Faculty Technology grants awarded
- List of community engagement grants awarded for past three years with dollar amounts and purpose of grant
- List of faculty receiving research grants for past three years with dollar amounts and purpose of research project
- List of international faculty travel grants awarded for past three years with dollar amounts and purpose of grant
Programs and Programmatic Links
Core Component 2a: The organization realistically
prepares for a future shaped by multiple societal and economic trends.
Examples of Evidence
- The organization's planning documents reflect a sound understanding of the organization's current capacity.
- The organization's planning documents demonstrate that attention is being paid to emerging factors such as technology, demographic shifts, and globalization.
- The organization's planning documents show careful attention to the organization's function in a multicultural society.
- The organization's planning processes include effective environmental scanning.
- The organizational environment is supportive of innovation and change.
- The organization incorporates in its planning those aspects of it history and heritage that it wishes to preserve and continue.
- The organization clearly identifies authority for decision making about organizational goals.
Core Component 2b: The organization's resource base supports its educational programs and its plans for maintaining
and strengthening their quality in the future.
Examples of Evidence
- The organization's resources are adequate for achievement of the educational quality it claims to provide.
- Plans for resource development and allocation document an organizational commitment to supporting and strengthening the quality of the education it provides.
- The organization uses its human resources effectively.
- The organization intentionally develops its human resources to meet future changes.
- The organization's history of financial resource development and investment documents a forward-looking concern for ensuring educational quality (e.g. investments in faculty development, technology, learning support services, new or renovated facilities).
- The organization has a history of achieving its planning goals.
Core Component 2c: The organization's ongoing evaluation and assessment processes provide reliable evidence of
institutional effectiveness that clearly informs strategies for continuous improvement.
Examples of Evidence
- The organization demonstrates that its evaluation processes provide evidence that its performance meets its stated expectations for institutional effectiveness.
- The organization maintains effective systems for collecting, analyzing, and using organizational information.
- Appropriate data and feedback loops are available and used throughout the organization to support continuous improvement.
- Periodic reviews of academic and administrative subunits contribute to improvement of the organization.
- The organization provides adequate support for its evaluation and assessment processes.
Core Component 2d: All levels of planning align with the organization's mission, thereby enhancing its capacity to
fulfill that mission.
Examples of Evidence
- Coordinated planning processes center on the mission documents that define vision, values, goals, and strategic priorities for the organization.
- Planning processes link with budgeting processes.
- Implementation of the organization's planning is evident in its operations.
- Long-range strategic planning processes allow for reprioritization of goals when necessary because of changing environments.
- Planning documents give evidence of the organization's awareness of the relationships among educational quality, student learning, and the divers, complex, global, and technological world in which the organization and its students exist.
- Planning process involve internal constituents and, where appropriate, external constituents.