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Unit 5 Assignment 1

Unit 5
Assignment
Xavier Williams

Brief summary

The Santa Barbara Community College in its self-study evaluation report says so much about the institution. The college has a diverse staff and students; the institution is all-inclusive and welcomes students and staff from all ethnicities and communities. The institution has a good reputation for innovation and excellence which has resulted in it getting so many awards. The college is very committed to the success of the students and offers outstanding higher education to the students. The college also complies with the laws and regulations that govern institutions.
The college has addressed the recommendation by the team review. One of the recommendations addressed is the integration of the resource allocation process for faculty hiring with program review and other planning processes (Saint Barbara Community College, 2021). The institution addressed this and now the process for the request and the approval of new and replacement tenure-track faculty positions has become more structured and aligned with the resource allocation process of the college. The college has addressed the revision of the board trustees and the related administrative process as recommended.

Campus climate and culture

The college is very dedicated to enhancing the quality of learning through its mission, values, and practices. The college’s mission is to provide a diverse learning environment to the students that will inspire curiosity and discovery in the students. This impacts the corporate governance of the institution; the board and the trustees are very focused on ensuring that the staff of the college are qualified to ensure that the quality standards in the college are maintained. The mission of the campus is the guide which the management uses in its strategy formulation.
The college has a set of values and principles which guide all the operations of the campus. One of the key values is participatory governance (Saint Barbara Community College, 2021). The participatory governance value has ensured that the process of governance and decision-making involves all the stakeholders of the college. Participative decision-making has enhanced the effectiveness of the college to a great extent because the management can focus its strategies on the needs of all stakeholders involved.

Publications, governance structures, and policies

The education programs for the college are highly based on the mission statement of the college and are based on recognized fields of study. The college has many procedures, policies, publications, and governance structures. The college has a code of ethics and standards of practice that guides how the staff and the students should conduct themselves within the university. The code of ethics ensures that the board and the staff are not involved in any unlawful and illegal practices on the campus.
There is a policy in the organization in which the board is not allowed to permit others to use the public resources, this helps ensure that the resources are utilized for the development of the public resources. The school has procedures and policies that ensure that all the students are safe within the college protecting them from any form of discrimination and harassment. The students from all origins, Gender, ethnicities, color, race are treated in a similar way ensuring that the performance of the students is optimal. The rules and regulations of the college ensure that the students get the optimal quality of higher learning to help them develop their careers and become better members of society.
References
Saint Barbara Community College. (2021). 2021 Institutional self-evaluation report. Retrieved from https://www.sbcc.edu/accreditation/iser/20210120_ISER_2021_V6.pdf