Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
including modifications and improvements of their teaching methodologies. Finally, the
evaluation team assesses the faculty member‘s professional competence and conduct, which
specifically includes whether the faculty member measures student performance and presents
students with clear course objectives, whether the instructor meets obligations resulting from
state mandates or district policies, and whether the instructor teaches the subject matter
described in the college catalog and course outlines (which include SLOs).
Through work sponsored by a Title V grant, Hartnell has created tools that can show student
success and persistence at section, course, and program levels. These tools are widely
discussed and utilized by faculty and departments to improve and adapt teaching methods, to
re-sequence courses, and to develop interventions (including directed learning activities and
intensive cohort-based summer programs) and supplemental instruction. With these
capabilities in hand and faculty enthusiasm for the process, the college is well poised to
ensure that the achievement of student learning outcomes is central to the evaluation process.
Self Evaluation
Hartnell College has a long history of dialogue and action related to defining student learning
outcomes for courses, implementing and documenting student learning outcomes, and
publishing them. Faculty and others directly responsible for student progress toward
achieving stated student learning outcomes have implemented processes to ensure that the
College has a well-defined and rigorous process for implementing SLOs and program
review. Instructors are now moving to the next level in assessing their SLOs and seeing how
students progress toward meeting the stated student outcomes. Hartnell has systematically
provisioned Title V grant dollars to create online tools that assess student success pathways
and attrition markers for learning pathways. These innovative and effective tools are being
requested from and shared with other colleges. (III.A.14) The SLO Committee will continue
to train and mentor faculty and staff to focus on outcomes assessment and to improve
learning for students.
The college meets this standard.
Planning Agenda
None.
III.A.1.d
The institution upholds a written code of professional ethics for all of its personnel.
Descriptive Summary
Hartnell College has a written Code of Professional Ethics created by and applicable to all of
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