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Casey Abington ,
Joni Adkins ,
Lisa D. Bishop ,
Benjamin Blackford ,
Terry Coalter ,
Ben Collier ,
Michelle R. Drake ,
Tolina Fufa ,
Gregory D. Haddock ,
Araceli Hernandez ,
Allison S. Hoffmann ,
Jamie Hooyman ,
Brooke Hull ,
John Jasinski ,
David W. Johnson ,
Brenda R. Jones ,
Cindy S. Kenkel ,
Kathleen A. Kobayashi ,
Chi Lo Lim ,
Steve E. Ludwig ,
Janet K. Marta ,
Doni S. Mollus ,
Jeff L. Nickerson ,
Michael A. Northup ,
Doug S. Russell ,
Tiebing Shi ,
Carol Spradling ,
Malinda M. Tobin ,
Deborah A. Toomey ,
James L. Walker ,
Tekle O. Wanorie ,
Nancy Zeliff
About This Member
Institution Type: Bacc/Grad Degree Institution Classification: Public Business School Website: https://www.nwmissouri.edu/business/ Accreditation Status: Yes Accreditation Category: R1 - Reaffirmed with Notes Year Initially Accredited (Bacc./Grad.): 1991 Year Last Reaffirmed: 2018 Term of Accreditation: 10 Years Champion: Benjamin Blackford Champion Title: Director - School of Business Co-Champion: Jamie Hooyman Co-Champion Title: Provost Co-Champion #2: Casey Abbington Co-Champion #2 Title: Associate Professor Co-Champion #2 Email: casey@nwmissouri.edu ENACTUS Team: Yes Basis for Decision: Basis for Decision/Program CommentsStrengths (8)Standard 1: Leadership The university and the school have worked to build effective systems that are student-oriented and data-driven. Feedback from students and faculty all the way to the Board of Regents is the basis for all decision-making. A strong sense of goal-directed cohesion is evident across campus. Categories: Approach, Deployment, Results, Improvements Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Criterion 2.1 The school has a well-developed planning process that includes faculty input, data-based measures, and active data review/response mechanisms. Categories: Approach, Deployment, Results Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Criterion 2.2 The Academic Program Review is a best-in-class faculty-based approach for review, analysis, and action planning leading to continuous program and process improvement. Categories: Approach, Deployment, Improvements Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Criterion 3.1 The school utilizes effective measures in evaluating targeted markets for prospective students in its undergraduate and graduate programs. Categories: Results Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Criterion 4.2 The school has a strong summative assessment measurement and results process for the review and development of student performance. Categories: Results Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Criterion 5.7 The annual faculty evaluation review framework of self-developed goals and weightings with a review by school and university academic leadership is a best-in-class approach to the utilization and development of its faculty resources. Categories: Approach, Deployment, Results Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Criterion 6.1.1 The school's development of a location-based curriculum for the Northland Center is commended for the active involvement of students, faculty, and administrators. This approach is an excellent model for future center or on-line program development. Categories: Approach, Deployment Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Criterion 6.3.5 The Living and Academic Learning Community encourages top students in the freshman class to participate in a more extensive learning experience geared to the students' potential for high achievement. The faculty-student relationship is the integral component of this experience. Categories: Approach, Deployment Verified: This Strength was verified on site.Opportunities for Improvement (OFI) (8)Criterion 2.2 The school strategic planning process could be strengthened through the addition of goals met and action plans taken in the development of the tables. Such an addition would show a process that is fully implemented and fully deployed. Categories: Deployment, Improvements Verified: This OFI was verified on site.Criterion 3.2 The school notes eight stakeholders, but students appear to be the only focus of collecting data on stakeholder satisfaction. In order to improve strategic decisions, the school could develop and implement more rigorous processes for listening to and utilizing results from all these stakeholders. Categories: Approach Verified: This OFI was verified on site.Criterion 4.1 The school's measures of current learning outcomes do not show a student-centered learning performance process. The development of a more rigorous student-based set of learning outcomes for each program would a show a fully deployed student learning outcomes assessment process. Categories: Approach, Deployment, Results Verified: This OFI was verified on site.Criterion 4.4 Although the school offers elements of assessment and bench marking, the process would be more rigorous and deployed by showing the results (what was gained, eliminated, or changed) from such information in the student learning performance standard. Categories: Improvements Verified: This OFI was verified on site.Criterion 5.1 The school's overall approach to planning and performance measures could be strengthened by the development and inclusion of its human resource plan and the relationship with trends and results findings in the other standards. This inclusion would show a more robust and deployed Strategic Plan. Categories: Approach, Deployment, Results, Improvements Verified: This OFI was verified on site.Criterion 5.8 The standard requires that where adjunct faculties provide a significant portion of instruction, they must also demonstrate their contribution to the scholarship and professional development activities of the department or school. The school's review of the scholarship and professional development activities would be fully implemented with the inclusion of the adjunct faculty who are at the Northland Center. Their inclusion could provide a more meaningful review of both the human resources and the meeting of outcomes and satisfaction objectives. Categories: Deployment, Results, Improvements Verified: This OFI was verified on site.Criterion 6.1.7 The school utilization of data in its program development process could be strengthened by the inclusion of data analysis results and actions taken. This addition might provide a better overall evaluation process and identify beneficial improvements.. Categories: Deployment, Results, Improvements Verified: This OFI was verified on site.Criterion 6.2.1 The school could more effectively describe how it participates in processes for improvement of the university support services, as well how their students take advantage of these resources. The verbal comments from offices across the campus indicate effective involvement which is not noted in the narrative. Categories: Deployment Verified: This OFI was verified on site.© 2020 ACBSP. 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