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STANDARD 1 Strengths Provost emails a monthly newsletter for all to help ensure college leadership transparency. STANDARD 1 Strengths The Business Unit regularly exceeds the college criteria of 80% placement of all graduates and has had a better persistence and retention rate than the college average. STANDARD 1 Strengths New Business Unit leadership has begun to make significant changes and will continue to facilitate improvement. STANDARD 2 Strengths The Business Unit can participate in a National Initiative that targets students not currently enrolled, but with only a few missing credits via reverse transfer and an online form was added for former MTC students. STANDARD 2 Strengths The college implemented a required course “Virtual Backpack” for all students taking online courses to improve student understanding of the rigors of online courses. STANDARD 2 Strengths BUS101 Intro to Business was identified as a high enrollment, but low pass rate course. Business Faculty teaching in this gateway area were encouraged to participate in an Online Faculty Learning Community (OFLC) and 5 chose to do so. STANDARD 4 Strengths The use of a systematic approach to assess SLO’s through their use of the SLO and POAR reports. STANDARD 4 Strengths Using a variety of data points when collecting data for their SLO Reports is a strength in the Business Unit. Comparative data is used in comparing the type of faculty teaching the courses where performance measures are measured as well as the location and types of class settings. STANDARD 4 Strengths The data in the SLO Reports is presented in easy to read tables as well as well-written narratives that elaborate on the performance measures, benchmark goals and results. STANDARD 5 Strengths Campus Labs is used by college to track faculty resume/vitae, transcripts and artifacts for exceptions. Reports can be run to identify areas that are missing documentation. Evidence files are also uploaded. STANDARD 5 Strengths Faculty Development and training is delivered live and online using Zoom and D2L. The Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) also has developed a podcast and other on demand services to assist faculty with various needs.