Design Criteria - Features that must be present within programs, departments, and services in order to respond to trends and challenges facing our college.
Design Criteria 1
Design Criteria 2
Design Criteria 3
Rubric - definition
Design Criteria 1
The mission and vision is modeled in the delivery and support of teaching and learning.
Rubrics: partnerships, budgets, technology, work systems
Trends:
The Accountability Question - Focus on Performance
Houston We Have a Problem
Relevancy and Speed to Knowledge - Shortening of Product-Life-cycles
"We Believe":
1. Learning is a lifelong process reflected in an academic continuum
of developmental, general, technical, and transfer and continuing education
2. Quality and excellence occur in a continuous improvement climate that
recognizes emerging technologies, values applied experiences, advances
community and business partnerships,
3. Students deserve a respectful, safe, and caring environment that supports
personal growth and embraces diversity;
4. Student life enriches educational, career, cultural, recreational,
and social development in preparation for citizenship in a global society;
5. Student services enhance educational experiences, promote personal
well-being, and support student success;
6. Higher education in a multi-cultural setting values academic freedom,
develops critical thinking, and accepts philosophical differences.
Design Criteria 2
The college aligns resources to support the mission and vision.
Rubrics: partnerships, budgets, technology, work systems
Trends:
1. The Accountability Question - Focus on Performance
2. Opening of the Learning Market "The Net Impact"
3. From Competition to Cooperation: New Alliances and Strategic Partnerships
"We Believe":
· Quality educational opportunities must be affordable, convenient,
and geographically accessible for all students;
· Public investment in higher education assumes a promise of fiscal
responsibility;
Design Criteria 3
The performance of the college demonstrates continuous improvement.
Rubrics: assessment, systems and process improvement, innovation
Trends:
The Accountability Question - Focus on Performance
Boom Town
The Changing Value Equation
"We Believe":
1. Quality and excellence occur in a continuous improvement climate that
recognizes emerging technologies, values applied experiences, advances
community and business partnerships,
2. Public investment in higher education assumes a promise of fiscal responsibility;
3. Student services enhance educational experiences, promote personal
well-being, and support student success;
Rubric:
- A rubric is a simple way to set performance standards. Rubrics have four components: A benchmark or "standard", desired results, elements of performance that must be completed to achieved the desired result (design criteria), and clear descriptions of acceptable performance.