Kaua‘i community college

Planning Agenda

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  The college needs to encourage broader participation by faculty, staff, and students in all decision making that pertains to resource allocations. This involvement will facilitate a better understanding of this difficult process and the administration’s decision making.
  

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  In addition, despite the numerous methods of available internal communication, timelier dissemination of important committee information is needed.
  

I.B.7. The institution assesses its evaluation mechanisms through a systematic review of their effectiveness in improving instructional programs, student support services, and library and other learning support services.

Descriptive Summary

The recent focus on program reviews incorporating SLOs has generated awareness of the need for verifiable methods to improve and achieve success. Each academic/student services division conducts a regular program review, incorporating quantitative data to assess effectiveness in achieving established SLOs. The program review process ensures a systematic review of all college programs over a five-year cycle.

Self Evaluation

The college meets the standard. The college’s recent focus on developing SLOs for all courses and programs that are aligned with the college’s stated mission assures an effective mechanism to assess the college’s and the various programs’ effectiveness. The college has implemented a clear schedule of program reviews in 12 areas, and all administrators, faculty, and staff members are actively engaged in this process. A multi-year plan of offerings (MYPO) was created and designed to improve the scheduling of various courses and instructional programs. The new Course Action Form (CAF) ensures that each course taught at the college meets student needs and is allocated the necessary resources by aligning its SLOs with the program SLOs and the campus SLOs.

The college is actively assessing and reassessing the effectiveness of its ongoing planning and resource allocation, as this study shows. However, ongoing means there is always more to do. While the college currently is involved with developing program and course SLOs, it has not significantly addressed the assessment of those SLOs. Continued workshops and training opportunities are needed to provide increased understanding of the evaluation process. Since the program review process and allocation of resources are tied to quantitative and qualitative data, the college also must continue to incorporate and expand the use of an institutional research methodology that is based not solely on data collection but on identifying relevant and applicable data in order to judge disparate programs, courses, and multiple student needs. The Institutional Research will need to play an even bigger role in the strategic planning and review process for all programs in the future. A more careful and data driven review of the outcomes of each program in the future will serve to improve instructional programs, student services, library services, and other learning support services.

Planning Agenda

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  Continue workshops and training opportunities to provide increased understanding of the evaluation process.
  

Standard I Resource Documents

ASE Certification, Exhibit I-10

APRUs

APRU Data 2006

Assessment Taskforce Report, Exhibit I-19

BOR Minutes 3/19/04

CAF Course Action Form

Case Management

College Council Notes

Convocation Agenda, Exhibit I-3

Convocation Handouts, Exhibit I-21

Convocation Sign-in Sheets, Exhibit I-20

Course Completion to Spring 2005

Course SLOs, Exhibit I-17

CCSSE Reports, Exhibit I-8

Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes, Exhibit I-18

Division Meeting Minutes, Exhibit I-16

ECE Program Review

EPSCOR Report, Exhibit I-5

Faculty Senate Charter

Faculty Senate Minutes

Flyers, Exhibit I-13

Focused Midterm Report and Midterm Report

Graduate/Leaver Surveys

Information Technology Strategic Plan Taskforce

Institutional Effectiveness Website

Kaua‘i Economic Development Plan/Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy

KCC Catalog

KCC Mission Statement

KCC Mission Statement Development Meetings, Exhibit I-1

KCC Strategic Plan

KCC Website

KCCM 1-6

MAPS

Minutes of Nursing Advisory Meeting, Exhibit I-23

Multi-Year Plan of Offerings (MYPO)

Nurse-External Licenses, Exhibit I-9

OCET Schedules for Professional Development and Assessment, Exhibit I-15

OCET Training Numbers

One-Stop Plans, Exhibit I-7

Perkins Reports, Exhibit I-6

Program action plans

Program Review Instructions

Program Reviews

Progress Report 2003

Request to Fill a Position Form, Exhibit I-12

Retention Quantitative Study (persistence-study done during Fall 2001), Exhibit I-4

Scheduling Process and Timetable

Self Study Survey, Standard I

Self Study Surveys

Sign-in Sheets, Exhibit I-14

Sign-in Sheets on Mission Statement, Exhibit I-11

Title III Grant Updates

Transfer Student Numbers

University of Hawai‘i System Strategic Plan, 2002–2010

Workshops, Exhibit I-22

Workshops on mission statement, Exhibit I-2
STANDARD ii: STUDENT LEARNING PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
The institution offers high-quality instructional programs, student support services, and library and learning support services that facilitate and demonstrate the achievement of stated student learning outcomes. The institution provides an environment that supports learning, enhances student understanding and appreciation of diversity, and encourages personal and civic responsibility as well as intellectual, aesthetic, and personal development for all of its students.