Task Force member, and Joyce Urbeck, COE administrative director. The mission statement should express the overall purposes, intent and uniqueness of the program. It is a statement of the fundamental reasons for a program's existence. They provide clarification and specificity for components of the mission statement. As the goals were derived from components of the mission, specific objectives should flow from the goals.
Objectives are the specifications on how the particular goal is to be reached.
They are statements which define outcomes attributable to the mission and goals of a program. At the Task Force's recommendation, the COE also adopted the following policy to enable the COE to have adequate information to determine if a program is meeting its mission, goals and objectives. Evaluation teams must include the mission, goals and objectives of the programs being evaluated in its evaluation reports and directs the Leadership and Professional Development Committee to include this information in its training program for site visitors. The COE staff notifies evaluation teams that the staff is willing to insert the MGO's in the evaluation reports if requested. Following COE's adoption of the definitions of mission, goals and objectives, the Council requested the COE Long Range Planning Committee, chaired by Douglas Penisten, O.D., Ph.D., to review the COE's own mission, goals and objectives and to make recommendations to the Council on its findings.