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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. 

1. ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: Sustain and enhance academic excellence.
2. FISCAL HEALTH: Sustain and enhance the College’s fiscal health.
3. 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.
4. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Sustain and enhance operational excellence.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. JUSTICE, EQUITY, INCLUSION, DIVERSITY: 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:

1. Synthesis of ideas across broad areas of knowledge within the liberal arts
2. Linkage of theory and practice within group and self-directed research leading to intellectual or creative contributions
3. Mastery of essential content, methods, concepts and technical aspects of an academic discipline
4. 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
5. 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