Accreditation - Hartnell College!!

Institutional Self Evaluation – 12-05-12
Standard IV: Leadership and Governance
The institution recognizes and utilizes the contributions of leadership throughout the
organization for continuous improvement of the institution. Governance roles are designed
to facilitate decisions that support student learning programs and services and improve
institutional effectiveness, while acknowledging the designated responsibilities of the
governing board and the chief administrator.
The college has employed leadership and governance structures that emphasize the
centrality of teaching and learning as the core of its business and that focus on making
decisions that serve the best interests of its students.
IV.A DECISION-MAKING ROLES AND PROCESSES
The institution recognizes that ethical and effective leadership throughout the organization
enables the institution to identify institutional values, set and achieve goals, learn, and
improve.
Descriptive Summary
According to its vision statement, Hartnell will ―provide fair and ethical treatment of the
entire population.‖ This is one of several vision statements, which, along with the mission
statement, is disseminated widely in Hartnell print and electronic publications.
To that end, the District has committed to hold ethics training sessions for all of its
employees at approximately two-year intervals. A partner of the law firm Liebert Cassidy
Whitmore has conducted in-person sessions at the college in September 2007, January 2010,
and February 2012 (IV.A.1). The 2010 and 2012 sessions were mandatory for all employees,
and online training was provided for individuals who could not attend the assemblies.
The District also has taken steps to memorialize ethics policies for The college as a whole. In
response to the ACCJC recommendation that the ethics code serve as a foundation for
interactions regarding governance, student learning, and institutional processes, a sharedgovernance
task force was assembled in Fall 2007 to develop a college wide policy. The
policy was adopted in February 2008 and is posted on the Hartnell website (IV.A.2). The
statement includes a commitment to continuous improvement of our data gathering and
planning processes:
We, the employees of Hartnell College, agree to act in a responsible and ethical
manner by adhering to the principles listed below, by modeling those principles in
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