• AQIP
• Systems Portfolio
• Instructions
• Overview
• Category 1:
  Helping Students Learn
• Category 2:
  Accomplishing Other Distinctive Objectives
• Category 3:
  Understanding Students' and Other Stakeholders' Needs
• Category 4:
  Valuing People
• Category 5:
  Leading and Communicating
• Category 6:
  Supporting Institutional Operations
• Category 7:
  Measuring Effectiveness
• Category 8:
  Planning Continuous Improvement
• Category 9:
  Building Collaborative Relationships

Systems Portfolio Overview

Overview. Provide an overview of your institution by briefly introducing vital characteristics such as mission, values, strategic vision, history, location, control (public or private) and status (for-profit or not-for-profit), and then answering the following nine items.

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• What are your goals for student learning and shaping an academic climate? What are your key credit and non-credit instructional programs, and educational systems, services, and technologies that directly support them?
• What key organizational services, other than instructional programs, do you provide for your students and other external stakeholders? What programs do you operate to achieve them?
• What are the short- and long-term requirements and expectations of the current student and other key stakeholder groups you serve? Who are your primary competitors in serving these groups?
• What are your administrative, faculty, and staff human resources? What key factors determine how you organize and use them?
• What strategies align your leadership, decision-making, and communication processes with your mission and values, the policies and requirements of your oversight entities, and your legal, ethical, and social responsibilities?
• What strategies align your key administrative support goals with your mission and values? What services, facilities, and equipment do you provide to achieve them?
• What determines the data and information you collect and distribute? What information resources and technologies govern how you manage and use data?
• What are the key commitments, constraints, challenges, and opportunities with which you must align your institution’s short- and long-term plans and strategies?
• What key partnerships and collaborations, external and internal, contribute to your institution’s effectiveness?

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