UCA - Key Questions for HLC2010

Responses to the Key Questions are at the heart of each task force report. See this link for the Task Force Report Guidelines.

Criterion 1: Mission & Integrity

The organization operates with integrity to ensure the fulfillment of its mission through structures and processes that involve the board, administration, faculty, staff, and students.

Core Component 1a: UCA’s mission documents are clear and articulate publicly its commitments.

Key Questions

1. What is our mission? Explain the mission/its formulation and meaning. Has it been formally adopted? How and when?
2. Whom do we serve?
3. What commitments does our mission assert?
4. How often are the mission documents evaluated and updated? Who is involved in this process?
5. How are mission documents made publicly available for faculty, staff, students, and the public?

Examples of Evidence

Core Component 1b: In the mission documents, UCA recognizes the diversity of its learners, other constituencies, and the greater society it serves.

Key Questions

1. How do our mission documents recognize and embrace the diversity of all our constituencies?
2. How does our mission ensure diversity, broadly understood, on campus?
3. How does our mission promote an environment of mutual respect and civility among our diverse constituencies?

Examples of Evidence

Core Component 1c: Understanding of and support for the mission pervade UCA.

Key Questions

1. To what extent do all within UCA understand and support UCA's mission?
2. How does UCA’s strategic plan support the mission statement?
3. How do planning and budgeting decisions flow from and support UCA's mission?
4. To what extent do the goals of this department (process, office, etc.) match UCA's mission?
5. How do we share our mission/goals to individuals outside of UCA?

Examples of Evidence

Core Component 1d: UCA's governance and administrative structures promote effective leadership and support collaborative processes that enable the organization to fulfill its mission.

Key Questions

1. To what extent do the Board's policies and practices support our mission?
2. What is our organizational structure? How and how often is it evaluated?
3. Describe and evaluate lines of authority for decision making?
4. Are administrative, faculty, and staff responsibilities delineated clearly? Where?
5. To what extent are administration, faculty, staff, and students involved in shared governance? How? How effectively?

Examples of Evidence

Core Component 1e: UCA upholds and protects its integrity.

Key Questions

1. How does UCA ensure that it upholds laws and regulations?
2. How does UCA uphold standards of ethical professional practice for administration, faculty, and staff?
3. What processes are in place to ensure fair treatment of faculty, staff, and students? Are these processes clear and readily visible? Who is involved in creating and improving these processes?

Examples of Evidence

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