Standards Component
The standards component of our self-study report details our fulfillment of WSCUC’s four core standards for success.
- Standard 1: Defining Institutional Mission and Acting with Integrity. The institution defines its mission and establishes educational and student success objectives aligned with that mission. The institution has a clear sense of its essential values, culture, and distinctive elements, and its contributions to society and the public good. It promotes the success of all students and makes explicit its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The institution functions with integrity and transparency.
- Standard 2: Achieving Educational Objectives and Student Success. The institution achieves its purposes and attains its educational objectives at the institutional and program level through the core functions of teaching and learning, scholarship and creative activity, and support for student learning and success. The institution demonstrates that these core functions are performed effectively by evaluating valid and reliable evidence of learning and by supporting the success of every student.
- Standard 3: Assuring Resources and Organizational Structures. The institution achieves its educational and student success objectives through investments in human, physical, fiscal, technology, and information resources within appropriate organizational and decision-making structures, and consistent with its explicit commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Standard 4: Creating an Institution Committed to Quality Assurance and Improvement. The institution engages in sustained, evidence-based, and participatory reflection about how effectively it is accomplishing its mission, achieving its educational and student success objectives, and realizing its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. The institution envisions its future in light of the changing environment of higher education. These activities inform both institutional planning and systematic evaluation of educational effectiveness.
In the self-study, we are required provide detailed the evidence showing fulfillment of WSCUC’s four core standards by completing the WSCUC Standards Worksheet. This worksheet must contain links to evidence folders supporting evidence for each criterion of the four standards. In addition, the standards component of the self-study will contain a narrative in which we reflect on the areas of greatest accomplishment (Strengths) associated with the four standards, as well as areas that we have identified as requiring future attention and effort (Opportunities).