Assessment at аIJʿª½± is driven by our Institutional Goals and College-Wide Student Learning Goals.
INSTITUTIONAL GOALS
The following institutional goals serve as touchstones to ensure that we are always working in support of аIJʿª½±â€™s mission, our community’s needs, and our opportunity to build on existing strengths to chart an inspiring future for the college. Moreover, these institutional goals will provide the framework for institution-wide assessment that will both guide our efforts and align each area in measuring progress towards these goals.Â
- ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: Sustain and enhance academic excellence.
- FISCAL HEALTH: Sustain and enhance the College’s fiscal health.
- HEALTH, SAFETY, °Â·¡³¢³¢-µþ·¡±õ±·³Ò:ÌýSustain and enhance the health, safety, and well-being of faculty, staff, and students so that all members of our community thrive.
- OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Sustain and enhance operational excellence.
- LOS ´¡±·³Ò·¡³¢·¡³§:ÌýSustain and enhance our partnerships and connections with the people, communities, institutions, organizations, and industries of the greater Los Angeles area.
- ³§±«³§°Õ´¡±õ±·´¡µþ±õ³¢±õ°Õ³Û:ÌýPrioritize sustainability and climate resilience in maintaining and developing our campus and in our approach to delivering academic and co-curricular programs.
- JUSTICE, EQUITY, INCLUSION, DIVERSITY:Â Sustain and enhance justice, equity, inclusion, and diversity in our community.
COLLEGE-WIDE STUDENT LEARNING GOALS
аIJʿª½± understands its educational goals as an evolving dynamic commitment they are the basis for assessment, subject to constant re-evaluation and re-imagining. Within this culture of self-aware and rigorous critique, our interdisciplinary approach to the liberal arts promotes student achievement of five college-wide learning goals and outcomes. These include:
- Synthesis of ideas across broad areas of knowledge within the liberal arts
- Linkage of theory and practice within group and self-directed research leading to intellectual or creative contributions
- Mastery of essential content, methods, concepts and technical aspects of an academic discipline
- Development of key intellectual skills:
- Analytic inquiry and problem solving
- Communication through writing, oral presentation, and creative expression
- Critical reading, writing, and thinking
- Critical Self-Awareness
- Ethical Reasoning
- Analysis of media and images
- Quantitative reasoning
- Scientific methodology
- Capacity for active intellectual community engagement:
- Community learning, participation, and service
- Ethical reasoning and action
- Global, intercultural and socio-political awareness
- Leadership and collaboration
- Personal well-being
- Respectful engagement with diverse perspectives