The institutional mission statement tells what the institution is, its purpose, its essential beliefs and values, and perhaps a general statement of the skills, knowledge, and attitudes to be acquired by the institution s students. Usually, following the institutional mission statement is a series of goals that describe the specifics of how an institution will accomplish the mission. The mission statement does not belong to any one division of the college. Every member of the institution, whether staff, faculty, or administrator, has a duty to accomplish the school s mission. This mission is periodically examined to ensure the needs of the students and the community are being met.
Goals are concrete statements.
There are three major requirements for the establishment of goals. They must be ascertainable They must be clear They must be linked to the mission statement Each goal should be directly related to the student and to the community. Action verbs are used in the writing of goals. A check of the goals of CVCC shows the use of provide, improve, maintain , and develop as examples of explicit statements of actions to be taken to accomplish goals. Institutional effectiveness is basically the study of how well we are accomplishing these goals and how we can improve upon those goals.