Background

In the spring of 2006, MSU – Great Falls began its transformation towards an institution designed, and focused, on the success of our students. From 2006 till present, the College’s faculty, staff, and community have made many accomplishments towards that end.

Over the next five years, we must continue this momentum and firmly establish MSU – Great Falls as a high-performing institution in regards to student success. The Community College Research Center’s (CCRC) Assessment of Evidence Series builds the foundation for our continued efforts. The CCRC’s work provides four general recommendations to guide us.

These include:

1. Colleges should ensure broad engagement of all faculty becomes the foundation for policies and practices to increase student success, including active faculty involvement in student support programs and services.
   
2. Colleges should work to simplify the structures and bureaucracies that students must navigate.
3. Colleges should be encouraged to align course curricula, define common learning outcomes and assessments, and set high standards for those outcomes.
4. Colleges should collect and use data to inform a continuous improvement process.