ANTELOPE VALLEY COLLEGE WINS RENEWAL OF ACCREDITATION.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. has been accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. for six more years by an oversight committee that wants the college to improve strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and shared governance, a report released Wednesday stated. The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, Western Association of Schools and Colleges The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) is one of six official academic bodies responsible for the accreditation of public and private universities, colleges, secondary and elementary schools in the United States and foreign institutions of American origin. , delivered a generally favorable fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. review of the college, including five commendations. The report's major institutional recommendations focused on planning issues. ``I'm very pleased with it. It recognizes the hard work by our faculty and staff,'' said college President Linda Spink. Antelope Valley College goes through an accreditation accreditation, n a process of formal recognition of a school or institution attesting to the required ability and performance in an area of education, training, or practice. renewal process every six years. It must provide a report by Nov. 1, 2001, detailing the progress it has made in the areas identified as needing improvement. This term, the college has been instructed to make progress on its ability to plan for future needs, its development of a system to track student progress and its development of effective shared governance practices. The college also must devise a clear policy on academic freedom - the ability of instructors to express their views and opinions, and to present course material as they see fit. That issue will be discussed this spring between the faculty and administration. The college also is at work on the other issues, Spink said. For example, the college is installing a computer system that will capture data on the progress of students, helping the college plan for courses and facilities. The college also created a director of research position to help with planning and student data collection. On the issue of shared governance, representatives of the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges and the Community College League will help Antelope Valley College shape its policies regarding how responsibilities are divided among administration and faculty. In addition to the recommendations, the college was commended for ``its atmosphere of renewed morale and enthusiasm and for its reinvigorated re·in·vig·o·rate tr.v. re·in·vig·o·rat·ed, re·in·vig·o·rat·ing, re·in·vig·o·rates To give new life or energy to. re commitment to its mission.'' The college also was commended for its new library and the new learning center, which the report described as ``a model for other institutions''; the implementation of telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. ; the development of physical resources, including finding funding for new buildings during tough economic times; and for demonstrating fiscal integrity during a decade of uncertain financing. |
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