Bucks County Community College MSCHE Self-Study 2022

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Middle States Open Forum Invitation

What is Middle States?

Open forum on Thursday, September 24th at 12:30pm. To join, click here.

Cannot join on Thursday? Another open forum will be held on Friday, October 9th at 11am. To join, click here.

Learn the results of our work on evaluating how we meet the Middle States Commission for Higher Education Standards for Accreditation. We will also share our next steps and collect your input on how we support our Mission and the first three components of our 2019-2025 Strategic Plan:

1. Our Learners of Tomorrow – We will ensure our learners achieve their future success through a unique, personalized and responsive Bucks Experience. Our “One College” integrated approach will serve all learners, traditional and post-traditional, credit and non-credit.

2. Our Promise – We will provide all students with comprehensive and innovative support personalized to their needs, challenges and preferences. Advisors and support staff will meet students where they are – regardless of modality – and always with student success at the forefront. We will support them to achieve their goals through a culture of care.

3. Our Programs – We will offer flexible, adaptable credit and non-credit lifelong learning. High demand, occupational programs based on regional needs will join our already excellent transfer programs to provide an inclusive credit and non-credit curricular roadmap that not only efficiently navigates students to their destinations, but also offers alternate routes as students’ needs evolve. The community will recognize the college as a premier provider of lifelong learning.

Self-Study and Visit Prep

Thank you to all who contributed to the writing our of our self-study report. Our self-study reflects our drive for continuous improvement and our compliance with MSCHE standards of accreditation and requirements of affiliation. The report is available at the Middle States 2022 SharePoint site.

Our virtual visit will occur from Sunday, April 3rd, 2022 to Wednesday, April 6th, 2022. Our visiting team will be representatives from community colleges in the Mid-Atlantic region. To prepare for their visit, committees, college teams and other college groups will discuss the evidence and examples shared in the self-study report as relevant to their charge and/or interests.

Comments or questions? Submit anonymously, or not, to www.bucks.edu/middlestates > Give Us Feedback

New Self-Study Draft and Visiting Team Chair Meeting

On October 27, 2021 our Visiting Team Chair, Dr. Mark McCormick, President, Middlesex County College, will virtual meet with representatives of the college. Those representatives include: Board of Trustees, the President, members of President’s Cabinet, members of the Executive Council, students and members of the self-study Steering Committee.

The purposes of the Chair’s Preliminary Visit are to:

Introduce the Team Chair to the institution, its people, and its environment so that the chair and team of peer evaluators can begin the upcoming On-Site Evaluation Visit eﬃciently and eﬀectively.
Ensure that the self-study process and document will support a useful On-Site Evaluation Visit.
Address practical preparation for the visit and to determine the institution’s readiness to host the visit.

Dr. McCormick will be providing feedback on our self-study draft. If you have feedback on the draft, please complete the feedback form at https://www.bucks.edu/middlestates

Fall 2021 Self-Study Draft

View the draft at: 2021 August Self-Study

To share your feedback anonymously, complete the “Give us Feedback” form at: bucks.edu/middlestates. Recipients of the form are self-study co-chairs Associate Professor, Jackie Burger and Associate Provost, Kelly Kelleway. You may provide your name and email address if you prefer.

In September, look for invitations on My Bucks and the Professional Development newsletter to join remotely or face-to-face in Self-Study 101 sessions. It’s a great way to learn what’s been happening at Bucks over the past few years and what’s to come!