Any NWCCU Eligibility Requirement or Accreditation Standard is fair game for a question from an evaluator. Evaluators will likely be particularly interested in your perspectives on FVCC’s student profile, mission, core themes, challenges and adaptability, sustainability (both financially and in terms of the quality and competitiveness of academic offerings and student services), and interactions between/among faculty, staff, students, and administrators. Below is a series of questions we expect the NWCCU evaluators to ask.
Standard |
Question |
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1a, 5a, 5b |
Is FVCC’s mission well understood across campus? Are staff views and concerns incorporated into the institution's goals? |
1a, 5a |
Do you think FVCC’s mission drives decisions, practices, and resource/budget allocation? |
5b |
How well does the institution evaluate its resources and capacity? |
1a, 5a, 1b, 3b1, 3b2 |
Does the institution use evidence from assessments to make curriculum decisions? How? |
3a1 |
Is the institution’s planning process participatory? |
3a2 |
Does the administration communicate effectively with staff? |
3a3, 3a4 |
Are the results of the planning and implementation processes shared with staff? Are they transparent? |
4a1, 4b1 |
Does the institution engage in ongoing systematic collection and analysis of meaningful, assessable, and verifiable data to measure achievement? |
4a2, 4b2 |
Is evaluation of departments and services systematic and effective? Is the assessment process effective in designing improvements and changes? |
4a4 |
Is there a holistic evaluation of alignment, correlation, and integration of programs and services? |
4b3 |
Are assessment results made publicly available in a timely manner? |