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Best Practices for High Achieving Institutions

This presentation highlights the fundamental pillars of achieving institutional success, including mission, culture, and self-evaluation. It explores the key questions and areas to commit to for achieving success, such as institutional assessment and improvement, student success, and community engagement. The role of accreditation, quantitative and qualitative assessments, and student achievement outcomes are also discussed. Attendees will gain insights on how to create a successful institution through alignment, excellence, continuous attunement, and effective leadership.

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Best Practices for High Achieving Institutions

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  1. Best Practices for High Achieving Institutions Michale S. McComis, Ed.D. May 19, 2016 Vancouver, Washington

  2. Achieving Institutional Success Fundamental Pillars: • Mission, Culture, Values • Self-Evaluation and Assessment • Institutional • Individual • Use Knowledge for Improvement • Action • On-going • Commitment

  3. Achieving Institutional Success Institutional Mission Key Questions What is the School’s Mission? Does the Mission Align with Goals? What are the Organization’s Values?

  4. Achieving Institutional Success Strengths and Challenges

  5. Achieving Institutional Success Areas to Commit to for Achieving Institutional Success: • Self-Evaluation • Institutional Assessment & Improvement • Students • Community

  6. Achieving Institutional Success • Self Evaluation & Institutional Assessment • Chart Your Course • Provides Clarity of Vision and Direction • Provided Direction • Produces Knowledge • You must know where you have been to better determine where you should be going • What makes institutional assessment successful? • Leadership Matters • Commitment

  7. Achieving Institutional Success • Self Evaluation & Institutional Assessment • Should be a significant and on-going process • Endemic • Not Episodic • Should evaluate all factors within the context of an institution’s stated mission. • Should involve the entire school • Should involve internal and external validation • Should combine quantitative measures with qualitative measures • Should use assessments to gauge success and develop paths to improvement

  8. Achieving Institutional Success • Students: • Commit to student success • Enroll “Graduates” • Know your students • Understand your students and their needs • Educational Programs • Student Services • Assess and Quantify Needs • Give them a Place

  9. Achieving Institutional Success Community: • Be a part of your community, be of service • Give – Show your value • Mine the value of giving • Students • Staff and Faculty • The Community • Show the value of a the school’s education • Satisfy the intrinsic and the extrinsic will follow

  10. Start at the Center

  11. Filling the Skills Gap

  12. Partnerships

  13. Achieving Institutional Success The Role of Accreditation: • Provides the “Blueprints” • Enhances the quality of education provided • Systematic • Comprehensive • Criteria based • Requires: • Continuous improvement, • Self-evaluation • Accountability • Promotes partnerships and peer review amongst institutions

  14. Achieving Institutional Success Quantitative Assessment Qualitative Assessment Student Achievement

  15. Achieving Institutional Success Student Achievement Outcomes Graduation Rates 2011-2013 Programs 10-12 Months in Length Average Just Good Enough Being Good Isn’t Good Enough

  16. Achieving Institutional Success Student Achievement Outcomes Graduation Rates 2011-2013 Just Good Enough Average Being Good Isn’t Good Enough

  17. Achieving Institutional Success Putting it All Together

  18. Achieving Institutional Success

  19. Achieving Institutional Success Elements to Consider Going Forward: • Identification of Mission and Goals • Alignment and Congruence • Know & Achieve Your Mission • Create Success Opportunities for your students • Commit to Excellence • Identification of Culture and Values • Organizational and Personal • Continuous Attunement and Assessment • Have A Vision • Leadership Matters – You Matter

  20. Questions

  21. Best Practices for High Achieving Institutions Michale S. McComis, Ed.D. May 19, 2016 Vancouver, Washington

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