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March 24 & 30, 2005 Forum Notes
Knight Campus
Values
- Should define what an educated person is
- Lifelong Learner - embrace the notion of "lifetime learning"
- Should there be a defined reading level
- community service
- continue to learn throughout lifetime
- provide quality
- affordable price
- stakeholders: employees, state & community agencies
- CCRI here when people need us – 2nd, 3rd and 4th chance place
- Access for all at any level
- Define what student goal is – degree, personal enhancement, etc.
- What is student success
- Open access
- collegial respect
- caring attitude for students
- supportive
- tolerance of views
- diversity - valuing it1
- access
- ethics – ethical standard
- inclusion – communication
- all want our voice to be heard
- integrity
- want to be wanted – needed
- value our legacy & history
- Excellence and Quality
- Adaptable
- personal touch/contact with student
- Engage and inspire curiosity (build intellectual curiosity among faculty staff and students)
- Risk Taking
- Self-management
- Learning (we are all learners)
- Excellence (in all we do as well as student excellence)
- Inclusiveness (people, ideas, viewpoints)
- Community
- Respect (each other; other aspects of institution)
- High educational and institutional standards
- Embrace learning as a way of life
- Making students successful (related to their personal goals – defined through Banner, Accuplacer, Student Success Centers)
- Reciprocal learning opportunities
- Personal growth
- Common good
- Exist for benefit of society and its needs
- Excellence in teaching and learning
- Remedial education
- Breadth of offerings across campus
- Faculty & staff are actively engaged in community that we create and serve
- Enthusiasm
- Celebrate the successes and don’t just focus on negative
- Communication
- Continuous improvement
- Bureaucracy inhibits excellence
- Partnerships & collaboration (internal and external)
- Meaningful participation
- Focused mission (not "yes" to everything)
Vision
- Leader in Education (Developmental)
- institution of "excellence" (focus on professional development of faculty and staff)
- encourage the "joy" of learning
- Curiosity and Freedom
- "ignite the individual potential in all" (faculty, staff and students)
- Community - intellectual growth
- Mutual commitment to same vision, mission and values
- feel "appreciated" - just because CCRI is affordable, does not mean poor quality
- responsive to demand by economic and demographic shifts
- adaptable
- innovative – changing needs
- improve people’s lives
- ultimately improve RI economy
- flexibility in systems – less bureaucratic
- microvision for each dept/unit – develop their own mission
- more flexible schedule
- acknowledge different learning styles
- more testing & guidance
- provide professional development support to faculty/staff to be more aware of learning styles
- How to decide what professional development activities to attend
- High participation rate among communities (students, faculty & staff); requires common meeting time; increased use of distance learning technologies
- CCRI is leader among community colleges
- Foremost
- Continuous growth
- Responsive and adaptable to current needs
- A true community committed to student success
- Data driven decisions
- Wise use of resources
- Strategic planning information used in decision making
- Cross-over of faculty to interdisciplinary teaching
- Not all things to all people
- Analysis prior to decision-making (defendable decisions based on data)
- Formal communication infrastructure combined with informal communications
Mission (What is our purpose? Why are we here?)
- Service
- Economic development (incl. welfare to work)
- Transfer
- Career preparation
- Developmental ed; remediation
- Lifelong learning
- Largest supplier of healthcare providers in RI (and #7 nationally)
- Affordable
- Excellence in teaching
