Addendum with evidence (8.2 MB) - Accreditation - Bakersfield ...

• Cultivation of students’ lifelong learning and civic engagement skills throughout their entire
college experience, and the development of lifelong learning opportunities for the entire
community;
• Assessing and identifying community non-credit education needs, and fulfilling these needs
through fee-for-service programs.
4. Systems and Processes There is continued need for methodical and comprehensive analysis of
Bakersfield College systems and processes, within the context of the Kern Community College
District system, to ensure effective and efficient application of district resources toward improving
student-learning outcomes. These core processes include:
• Administrative processes, such as budget development, financial transactions, information
systems, and human resources;
• Learning services processes, such as registration, all phases of matriculation, and enrollment
management;
• Teaching and learning processes, such as strengthened commitment to the “Seven
Principles of Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, learning communities, and
innovations in technologically-based education;
• Accountability processes, such as measuring and reporting student learning outcomes and
institutional effectiveness;
• Curriculum processes from applying data on student academic achievement to curriculum
review and continuous improvements in pedagogies.
5. Funding While state funding for Kern Community College District improved in the 2007-2008
fiscal year, there have been subsequent reductions each year requiring the College to review
priorities and make tradeoffs in resource allocation. The College will develop alternative funding
sources and nurture strategic partnerships in the community that are consistent with the institution’s
infrastructure, core processes, and its ability to meet the expected outcomes of the funding source.
KCCD and Bakersfield College will continue to seek systemic and curricular efficiencies as a means
to delivering core student learning and foundational processes.
6. Accountability In order to fulfill its mission effectively, Bakersfield College will specifically define
teaching effectiveness and student success, as it pertains to core student learning and foundational
processes, and systematically measure, evaluate, and communicate achievement of results in a selfreflective
planning and institutional effectiveness process. Faculty, staff, and administration will
cooperate not only to meet new accreditation mandates through development of new student
outcomes assessment and institutional effectiveness systems and processes. Additionally, faculty,
staff, and administration will assure that use of assessment data to improve curriculum and
pedagogies, drive budgeting, facilitate decision-making to improve efficiency, and maintain
stakeholder credibility and support.
7. Staff Development There will be continued need to engage in organizational and staff
development to focus all College energies and resources toward improving student learning, as
evidenced by student learning outcomes identified in a continuous self-reflective institutional
effectiveness process. The College will rekindle the development of a “Center for Teaching and
Learning” and seek new resources to support continued educational experimentation and
innovation in support of the “student learning model.” Improved staff development opportunities
for faculty in transfer articulation processes and procedures, the “Seven Principles of Good Practice
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