Bucks County Community College MSCHE Self-Study 2022

Last week, the MSCHE formally accepted our Self-Study Design. The Self-Study Design is a blueprint for the self-study process. Here’s the full-text of our Self-Study Design. Here’s the main points:

Institutional Priorities to be Addressed in the Self-Study

• We will specifically address three key components of our 2019-2025 Strategic Plan: Our Learners of Tomorrow, Our Promise, and Our Programs

Intended Outcomes of the Self-Study

• The self-study will help us to:

• Demonstrate how we currently meet the Commission’s Standards for
Accreditation and Requirements of Affiliation.
• Focus on continuous improvement in terms of how we fulfill our mission and
institutional priorities.
• Engage our college community in an inclusive and transparent process of
self-appraisal.
• Capitalize on overlapping efforts of the College’s new Strategic Plan and
the self-study to advance our strategic priorities, identify gaps in the
College’s readiness to implement such priorities, and recommend
opportunities to achieve mission and goals.
• Further embed educational effectiveness and overall assessment into the
College’s culture, and continue to link assessment with planning and
improvements of student learning and achievement.

Organizational Structure of the Steering Committee and Working Groups

The members Steering Committee and Working Groups include faculty, staff, administrators and students so that there is representation from every area of the College. Membership on the committee and groups will frequently be posted on MyBucks and http://www.bucks.edu/middlestates.

Timeline

Our self-study visit will occur during the Spring 2022 semester.

Our next milestone in our self-study process is a report form each Working Group on how Bucks fulfills the MSCHE Standards of Accreditation. The presentation of these reports will be on May 8th. A summary of key findings will be shared with the College community. If you are contacted by a Middle States Self-Study Working Group, as they prepare their reports, please help them as you can.  

Middle States Self-Study Chair, Kelly Kelleway and Co-chair, Jackie Burger, are closely monitoring the guidelines and recommendations of the Middle States Commission for Higher Education (MSCHE) during the campus closure. We are in the early stages of our self-study process. At this time, our self-study efforts can proceed as planned. Updates on the impact of COVID-19 on institutions undergoing self-study can be found at:  https://www.msche.org/covid-19/.  

Middle States Self-Study Chair, Kelly Kelleway and Co-chair, Jackie Burger, are closely monitoring the guidelines and recommendations of the commission during the campus closure. We are in the early stages of our self-study process. At this time, March 16, 2020, our self-study efforts can proceed as planned. Updates on the impact of COVID-19 on institutions undergoing self-study can be found at:  https://www.msche.org/covid-19/.