Results of Opening Day Feedback
Mission Statement Evaluation
- Prefer #1 with suggestions. Contributing citizens and productive
members of a regional workforce.
- Rewording to emphasize action "CCRI serves…" shorter so it can
be easily quoted and remembered. Suggested mission "CCRI provides
accessible and affordable quality education opportunities".
- Delete "contributing members of the state’s workforce". Add
after "and" "productive members of society".
- Rework #1 if needed to include some of #2. Much of the
descriptive language in #2 can be included as part of a vision
statement. Keep mission statement short and concise. Delete
"cultural". Leave diversity. Begin with: "is a campus of learners
that provides, etc." add word "community".
- #1and #2 lack passion. Missing why we do what we do. Would
like to get the idea of a "peoples college" in the mission (inspired
by Judge Caprio’s comments).
Add all in 2nd line of #1 after "assist" before "individuals".
- # 1 should be more reflective of the vision elements. Should not
include just the "state's" workforce as our audience is broader. # 2
need to add lifelong learning in as continuing education is more
finite. "promotes continuing education and lifelong learning"
Please not statement #1 could be shortened. Stop after "opportunity"
or even after "serve educational needs."
- Omit post – secondary. Add respectful.
- Great Job!
- #1 - two people at our table like this one. #2 - three
people voted for this one.
- Change post–secondary to college. Add: economic development of
RI. Reasoning: most people do not understand what post-secondary
means. State RI because it has more impact with the governor,
general assembly and community at large
- The mission is to stress student success, promote continuing
education, develop informed citizens, cultivate community service,
embrace cultural diversity, contribute to economic development and
encourage the pursuit of excellence as an accessible, excellent and
affordable college.
- Statement #1 make the following change: "to assist individuals"
becomes "to enable individuals" and "contributing members of the
state’s workforce" becomes "contributing members of the community".
- Quality education, include embrace cultural diversity.
- #2 changes: encourages student success and stresses the pursuit
of excellence. Change the underlined words.
- Try to break it into two shorter sentences.
- Replace "citizens" in #1 with "informed citizens". # 2 too many
things.
- Too long and wordy.
- #1 Remove state.
- Statement #1- change "state’s workforce" to "community" (too
limiting.) Both statements- delete "affordable" - accessible covers
it. Statement #1: add "assist any individual" to become successful
students. Statement #2 change "stresses" student success to
"promotes" student success.
- #1 - 1 person agrees, #2 7 people agree, #3 1 person agrees.
- We would include "proactive" before the word "citizens".
Otherwise, we love mission statement #1.
- Cultural diversity needs to stay but we need to include other
forms of diversity as well (not by listing.)
- #1 - We want it simplified!! Remove "workforce". We
suggest this rewrite. "CCRI’s mission is to provide accessible
affordable post-secondary education to assist individuals to become
successful students."
- #2 Instead of "pursuit of excellence" substitute "intellectual
achievements". Substitute "lifelong learning" for "promotes
continuing education". Comment on #1 don’t like "state’s workforce"
in wording.
- Change "contributing members of the state’s workforce" to
"contributing members of society"
- Statement # 2: Please place the phrase "pursuit of excellence"
earlier in the statement. **"The mission of CCRI is to provide
educational excellence through accessible and affordable
post-secondary education that meets student needs to complete a
degree, transfer credits, and graduate from a program for employment
success."
- We recommend a blending of the two statements: "CCRI’s mission
is to provide accessible, affordable educational opportunities that
stress student success, promote continuing education, develop
informed citizens, cultivate community service, embrace cultural
diversity, contribute to economic development and encourage the
pursuit of excellence.
- Revise #1 to read: CCRI’s mission is to provide accessible
affordable educational opportunities that encourage excellence and
assist individuals to become successful students, citizens and
contributing members in a culturally diverse society.
- Try: CCRI’s mission is to provide accessible affordable
educational opportunities that stress student success, promotes
continuing education, develops informed citizens, cultivates
community involvement, embraces cultural diversity, contributes to
economic development and encourages the pursuit of excellence.
- CCRI’s mission is to provide accessible, affordable
post-secondary educational opportunities to assist any individual to
become a successful student, proactive citizen and productive member
of society.
- CCRI’s mission is to provide accessible, affordable
post-secondary educational opportunities to assist all individuals
to become successful students, informed citizens and productive
members Rhode Island’s workforce.
- CCRI serves the educational needs of individuals by providing an
accessible and affordable post-secondary opportunity that encourages
student success, promotes continuing education and lifelong
learning, develops informed citizens, cultivates community
involvement, embraces diversity and contributes to the economic
development of the region.
- CCRI serves the educational needs of individuals through its
high quality, accessible and affordable offerings and programs.
Vision Statement Evaluation
- This is way too long. We dislike the phrase "culturally
tolerant" instead use "culturally expansive." Rewrite: That
puts learning, service, intellectual curiosity and achievement at
its core; that transforms lives and creates opportunity for
individual success; that encourages a cooperative, collaborative and
culturally expansive learning/working environment; that works in
partnership...STET; recognized as a model of best practices for
community colleges.
- Order of wording - This vibrant ...learning, achievement and
service. Of hope and opportunity ...to achieve their own... change
to assisting individuals to succeed. Educational and personal (in
that order and delete community.) Question should academic goals be
used instead of educational goals then you could use different
categories to be used as goals. Educational goals is too broad a
term.
- Make the phrases more parallel in construction: that puts
learning at its core, that explores new and varied, that offers hope
and opportunity. Drop some of the extra words - opportunity in the
community (why broader). Can you say: culturally "sensitive" or
"diverse" instead of tolerant? Change the last phrase to focus on
the students - "that produces the best students in the region" or
something like that. Focus more on students.
- Some redundancy in statements, not short in bullets 3, 4, 5. Do
not like last statement: recognized as a premier community college.
- 4th Bullet. Remove "culturally tolerant". It
suggests that we are "tolerating - putting up with" rather than
appreciating. The terms "cultural" is too value laden.
Perhaps replace with "...working together in a welcoming cooperative
and collaborative environment."
- Very Myopic! The document is too wordy, and thus loses the
sense of the Vision. Be concise! Just use the last statement
(Recognize.....) ***It is offensive to imply that faculty has not
incorporated these points, visions, which have been operative
since the inception of this institution.
- Statement too long. 5thbullet- add business and industry.
The student is not included in any of the statements.
- Meets the criteria, but need to combine bullets- needs to be
shorter.
- Needs to address helping students to what their goals could be.
Expose the student to goals and careers they might never have heard
of.
- "Create a passion for learning" "Transform new knowledge
into.." Omit 3rd statement- duplicates 4th statement. Change
"tolerant"- embrace or encourage is better even celebrate is better-
diversity not culture. Last statement is too commonly used- omit it.
- When it is an institution? "CCRI is an institution that is": #1
strike "service", and "an appetite for…" #2 #3 eliminate these,
redundant of #1. ...which will assist individuals in their
intellectual development." #4 Strike "personal"- where individuals
can strive to achieve their educational goals." #5 Take out
"economic." #6 CCRI is recognized as the only community college in
Rhode Island (just checking.....).
- Should be shorter and more concise. Bullets are too wordy. Does
not create an inspiration. Good working statement. Needs to create
inspiration in the reader.
- Recommendation: make the third statement the first; consolidate
some statements – they are repetitive; the last statement needs to
be more concrete- from whom do we expect excellence- who determines
it?
- We believe some of the bullets repeat the concepts or could be
combined, as in the use of perhaps the last bullet (premier
community college- excellence) in statement. CCRI, is
the region's etc... will accomplish.... In accomplishing the listed
bullets, we think #3 is in bullet #4 as will as # 5. Bullet #2 is
"wordy". Varied ways of building knowledge would be understood
in bullet #` "encourages an appetite for knowledge and varied...etc.
It begs the question , how? We think it is answered in bullets
#1 and #5.
- Vision Statement meets the criteria, But too long. By the time
you read the last vision statement you forget what the first one
was. Also- vision statement #4 a bit redundant (cooperative
collaborative) Vision statement #1 knowledge and intellectual
curiosity- aren’t they the same/similar?
- Vision Inspirational... Actively and overtly recognize
individual and group accomplishments, successes and achievements of
students, staff and faculty.
- Eliminate assisting "individuals to achieve their own definition
of success."
- It needs to have more specific goals and objectives.
- Last bullet "recognized as the regions" premier CC. How is
region defined? Do we need to limit ourselves to a region when there
is distance learning, etc... Change to " ..recognized as a premier
community college".
- #1 need to include global relationships and goals. Need
...community, statewide, nationally and worldwide. E.g. went to
Dominican Republic taking in displaced students from LA + MISS. # 2
Vertical global communications. # 3 also # 4 specify students and
faculty can achieve goals. e.g. Competitive pay scales.
- Change "CCRI will accomplish its mission when it’s an
institution." to "CCRI will continue to accomplish its mission
because it is an institution..." Change 1st sentence to present
tense.
- Revisions needed in wording. Item 3: should begin "that
brings hope and opportunity; provides a bridge..." Item 4 "that
allows individuals to achieve personal…" we think the vision
statement should be grammatically correct. Item 6: "that is
recognized." We think the vision statement should be
grammatically correct.
- Last statement- would this be viewed as a negative by our fellow
institutions? Too long. Last statement - make it "recognized for
excellence and quality". Statement be made in Latin - a touch of
class.
- Bullet #5 wordy and redundant when compared with #2. Bullet #6
delete first five embody vision.
- Criteria are meet. CCRI will accomplish its mission as an
institution, thus changing the following bullets to fit
appropriately. EX. ...it is vibrant, ..explores, ...of hope,
... works.
Continuous lifelong learning emphasis, non-conditional. Bullet #4
change "tolerant"/ ex. Embrace diversity. Bullet #6 national not
regional. General: bullet statements too verbose/long.
- Step 3 should say "to achieve success" not "their definition of
success. Step 5 should read "statewide organizations to meet
changing educational and economic development needs."
- Bullet 4: where individuals can achieve personal and educational
goals - ok. Individuals achieve community goals isn’t
clear—doesn’t make sense. Bullet 4 –tolerant is not strong enough—I
can tolerate but not accept. Change tolerant—to maybe embracing?
Inviting? Whole thing a little long - consolidate? Bullets 6- say
New England- not region. Bullet 2- explores new, varied and valid
ways. They should be tested as effective.
- It should be shorter, more concise and the last bullet could be
omitted or the last bullet could become part of the mission
statement.
- #3 change definition to plural.
- Include student adoption of institutional values. That
connects values with vision. The intro "CCRI will accomplish"
assumes we have not done any of what follows. "CCRI strives to
achieve its vision as an institution that is"
- Reshape structure of vision statement. Would rather have
it as one flowing statement instead of bullets. Too long*. Do
not like the phrase "culturally tolerant" instead we suggest,
perhaps "we appreciate or embrace and welcoming" words.
- The word "accomplish" suggests that the mission will end.
The mission is ongoing and should not be reached with finality.
Perhaps the word "conduct" would be a better choice. Last vision
seems like we are expecting an award. Recognition from the
outside cannot be controlled by us. We can only control what we do
not how we are perceived.
- Awkward heading- make it more direct "CCRI seeks to … lose "when
it is an institution." Rephrase statement. "CCRI will
accomplish its mission when the institution": action verbs. Add:
provide space that fosters optimum learning. Take region out.
- Not concise, too long, too detailed. Delete final bullet
completely. Some people liked 3rd bullet, but felt this was not
ambitious, idealistic ex. "culturally tolerant". Not future-
orientation lacks inspiration. Change #3 to "cooperative,
collaborative and culturally rich and dynamic".
- At the end of statement #1 , include … and help each student
recognize their full potential to beyond their goals. Add another
bullet that addresses that we are located within many populations,
we go to the student, as CCRI was originally intended. This part
addresses the history piece.
- Too long… Needs to fit on a coffee cup. Ho-Humm - too much - too
squishy...Example: CCRI gives students the eyes that allow them to
see". A People’s college where they realize their own unique
potential" Eliminate last bullet – too corporate. "CCRI’s vision is
to become a community of learners that empowers individuals to
realize their personal goals and potential.
- Edit: Repetitive #4. Use word community, try using
word - environment. #1 is a goal not a vision. Keep
simple. Consider adding importance of empowering students
toward self-actualization. #4 Community, cooperative,
collaborative, culturally --- too many "Cs"
- Rewrite: CCRI will accomplish its mission when it is an
institution: that encourages an appetite for knowledge and
intellectual curiosity; explores new and varied ways of building
knowledge and skills; of hope and opportunity, the bridge to
intellectual development; where individuals can achieve personal,
community and education goals by working together, meets the
changing educational and economic development needs of the region,
recognized as the state's premier community college.
- Eliminate all bullets except for #6 which should be first, and
#4.
Core Values Evaluation
- "Blends thought and actions to meet dynamic community needs.
? Use of word "educate". Simplify wording
- Integrity should treat all people with dignity not just
colleagues and students.
- Too watered down, too generic. No mention of adequate facilities
and supplies as a priority. These set the tone/ environment
for the other core values to flourish. "Atmosphere both physical and
intellectual that encourages learning".
- Core values are fine. The descriptions could be refined to be
more stimulating.
- The core values meet the criteria. These are wonderful things to
strive for, but we hope these are "not just words." We need actions
to back them up! Valuing the expertise of people in the front lines
is often ignored or lacking entirely.
- Only include "the individual" in the language. In first
section: ...creating new learning opportunities for a maximum number
of individuals.
- Sentences are too long. Forgetting our students we should be
opening doors instead of keeping students out.
- Move "develop informed citizens" and "community service" to
community portion. Delete "cultural" leave diversity. Core values
"campus of learners" concept. Commitment to excellence or community.
- Community should be number 1. Under community add after evolving
needs... "as well as the economic and social development... of the
community."
- Unable to address (meeting criteria) because of issues discussed
below. The first 3 values: Language of excellence,
community, responsiveness are not engaging or provocative, too
abstract. Effort to work around the acronym distracts the reader or
more importantly, limits the choice of words to create core values
statements. Does not caput true intent - not concrete,
substantive. It's language is over-used, lost its meaning.
Final value - Integrity - is well written and meets criteria.
- It does meet 4 out 5. We need to strive for excellence. We need
to put into practice what is stated in our core values.
- Responsiveness - place learners before professionals.
- Look great especially the parts about professional
accountability and public trust.
- CCRI is not responsive at this time. As stated all 4 are noble
ideals, but they need a lot of work to implement. Language and
content is good.
- Sentences are too long.
- Marvelous base for establishing mission.
- CCRI is committed. Integrity - most critical. Add a
clause that CCRI is committed. Integrity needs to include role
model which drives behaviors. Outcomes are needed to check
that these values come into reality and that there is real
leadership to facilitate its or these values.
- Because of the current strife between faculty and administration
this statement seems more appropriate for "Vision"
- Second value "practices collaboration" with whom? (Industry,
success center, everything?) Does this mean we will be evaluated on
this?
- #1 "Commitment to excellence" - reverse order of commitments:
possess integrity, you don’t exhibit it! You exhibit false modesty,
for example. #2 Needs more emphasis on the scholarly community of
the academy. #3 What happened to faculty, staff and students? Place
academic aspirations. #4 Fine with this. Summarizing stress
academics more.
- Community- include "encourage student volunteerism". Could
also include this as such: ...practices collaboration, encourages
volunteerism.
- Integrity is a value that can sink an organization should a
litmus test be applied -- especially by the media. Be careful here.
We do agree that integrity and its description is something that
should be strived for.
- Responsiveness: this order: academic, professional and
personal.
- Emphasize academic standards in the first "C"
- Drop the gimmicky CCRI acronym. All the categories include
a commitment. Can the first value be clarified by choosing another
word such as "excellence" or "opportunity"? The other 3 values are
clear. The first value covers too much ground- can it be
focused?
- Is the vehicle to assess this -- in terms of recognition-- the
self evaluation statement for faculty? Give recognition based on
input from all members of the community rather than a select few.
- The Core Value should be the commitment to educational
excellence. Period. The document is much too wordy and
repeats itself. What are these innovative changes-?
technological, philosophical etc? Are there funds for all these
goals? Are services available to late afternoon and evening
students? What does the administration do to support the
library? What does the administration do to promulgate these
values? What is meant by exhibiting institutional integrity?
Fifteen minutes is not enough time!!
- Faculty is often told to push students ahead; often students are
not able to do college work.
- Include local outlook global community in value #2. Value
that guide our relations with each other. Include in community -
collegiality, collaborate, and respect, professionalism. Problem
with word citizens maybe replace with community.
- Enhance skill-building of those who cross our path so that they
may access and develop skills and abilities throughout their
lifespan.
