This document is Title 23 of the North Carolina Administrative Code, which deals with the Department of Community Colleges. Chapter 1 contains general administrative provisions regarding the college system, including definition of terms, authority, state planning, and procedural information. Chapter 2 identifies the mission of the community…

This document presents Jefferson College's "Long Range Plan," which is intended to provide the College's governing board, administration, and faculty and staff with a task-oriented blueprint for maximizing the delivery of higher education services to students and the community in a predictable, programmatic, and fiscally sound manner.…

This report presents the major accomplishments, opportunities, and challenges identified in Virginia Community College System's (VCCS) strategic assessment, as well as goals that address critical issues for the college system. The mission of the VCCS is to provide comprehensive higher education and workforce training programs and services of…

Reviews 1980-95 research exploring the relationship between principal leadership and student achievement. Principals exercise a measurable, but indirect, influence on school effectiveness and student achievement via vision, mission, and goals. Previously described discrepancies may be attributable to researchers' conceptual and methodological…

This annual update of the Prince George's Community College (PGCC) Master Plan represents an effort by the college to provide a framework for meeting the postsecondary educational needs of Prince George's County. Following a brief introduction highlighting PGCC's goal to increase its role in the county's economic development, PGCC's planning…

This document discusses the goals and efforts of the California Community College Trustees (CCCT) in promoting diversity in the system's students, staff, and faculty. Goals include: (1) holding conferences and seminars that assist local colleges in addressing diversity on their campuses and model a value for diversity; (2) paying attention to the…

This document contains focus statements, priorities statements, and lists of priority actions planned in the 1996 fiscal year and of projected actions planned for the next 1-year to 5-year periods from each of 12 public universities in Illinois. Focus statements are brief and typically address the type of student population served, the type of…

This document details the accreditation standards set forth by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The four standards are as follows: (1) Institutional Mission and Effectiveness. Each institution has a statement of mission that defines the institution's broad…

Included in this report is the State of Texas' vision statement, mission statement, philosophy statement, priority goal for higher education statement, and a list of state-level benchmarks for higher education. The report also contains the state's community colleges' mission and philosophy statements, and a section pertaining to assessment of…

This document details regulations and procedures for transfer in public two-year and four-year institutions in South Carolina as mandated by Act 137 of 1995. This Act stipulates that the Council of College and University Presidents and the State Board shall develop better articulation of associate and baccalaureate degree programs. In compliance,…

This technology plan was developed by Southwest Virginia Community College (SVCC) in response to the Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System's goal to improve technology resources available on campus. The first section of this report introduces the SVCC General Technology Plan and how it fits into the college's vision for academic…

This document presents the strategic plan of Iowa's Board of Regents for the state's three institutions of higher education (and two special schools) for the next five years. Introductory information includes a statement of the document's purpose and overview, and the Board's mission statement, responsibilities statement, vision statement, and…

This report presents the University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College's (KCC's) 1997-2002 Academic Development Plan. The report contains seven sections. Section 1 describes the college, enrollment numbers, and faculty and staff numbers. A total of 16,400 students are enrolled, and 330 faculty members and 126 staff members are employed. Section…

California Senate Bill (SB) 121 establishes that a strong transfer function is the responsibility of all three segments of higher education; the California Community Colleges (CCC), the University of California (UC), and the California State University (CSU), and that each segment must develop transfer agreement programs, discipline-based…

Information is provided to help coordinate the mission statements of New Mexico's 23 state colleges and universities. After introducing the legal and statutory basis for the mission statements, the official mission statements of the 23 public institutions are presented. The mission statements are compared with state laws and statutes that are…