Bucks County Community College MSCHE Self-Study 2022

The Fall 2020 semester concluded the evidence collection phase of our self-study process. Our evidence inventory includes college policies, procedures, examples such as events, projects and initiatives and assessment outcomes. Each piece of evidence maps to at least one criterion of the Middle States Commission for Higher Education’s (MSCHE) standards of accreditation. Bucks students and employees have access to our evidence inventory here: https://bucks0.sharepoint.com/sites/MiddleStates

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.

Our diligent Working Groups, made up of 50 faculty, staff and administrators, wrapped up the spring semester with a report on phase 1 of our self-study process. Phase 1 focused on collecting evidence to substantiate that we meet the all the criteria for accreditation. Working groups not only collected enough evidence to support meeting the criteria for accreditation, we are now faced with deciding how much do we really need. It’s very positive! In addition, we have independently arrived at the conclusion that we do not have any huge dilemmas that we are facing before the spring 2022 visit. Of, course there are things we can improve upon, but since the college has an ethic of continuous improvement, we do that already. Over the summer we will be further analyzing the evidence collected thus far and planning for fall 2020 evidence collection and our phase 2 Working Group reports focusing on our mission and our 2019-2025 Strategic Plan.