Institutional Improvement Day is Friday, Sept. 25

LLCC will hold its annual Institutional Improvement Day on Friday, Sept. 25. Your input is essential to this effort. No classes will be held that day, and employees are expected to participate.

The day will begin at 9 a.m. with a video, viewable via Stream (a link to the video will be in LincIn and emailed to all employees that morning), followed by virtual Quality Council Team meetings and departmental work. Departments will also meet virtually in the afternoon. The schedule is below, with more specific instructions to be emailed to individuals leading Quality Council Team and departmental meetings.

9-10:45 a.m. – Reports & Updates (viewable on Stream)

  • A Student-Ready College (Dr. Warren)
  • LLCC’s Dashboard KPIs (Dr. Tricia Kujawa)
  • Higher Learning Commission (HLC) Open Pathways Review
  • Quality Council Team Reports:
    • Learning Outcomes Assessment: Dr. Colin Suchland
    • External Stakeholders: Laurel Bretz
    • Enrollment Management: Rebecca Miller-McGrath
    • Campus Climate: Kyla Kruse
    • Faculty Senate: Cara Swafford

10:45-11 a.m. – Break

11 a.m. – Quality Council Teams: Overview. Identify possible projects that connect to the dashboard KPIs, HLC criteria*

11 a.m. – Departmental Work: Identify possible projects that connect to the dashboard KPIs, HLC criteria**

12:30 p.m. – Break/Lunch

1:30-5 p.m. – Departmental Work: Initiatives for dashboard KPIs, HLC-related work*

Examples:

  • adding to the evidence file
  • continued assessment-related work
  • evaluation of progress on recent initiatives
  • evidence/data collection to demonstrate evaluation of recent initiatives

*Specific guidance on output for this work will be provided to QC Teams and department leadership.

**Department members who serve on Quality Council Teams should prioritize Team work during this period, with the understanding that they may need to organize alternate leadership for the first round of departmental work.