Mission Fulfillment Report (MFR)
Reports
- 2023 MFR draft – college access
Highline College employees may access the above Google document. - 2023 MFR draft — public access
- Executive Cabinet created an explicit charge for the Institutional Effectiveness Committee in early winter 2021, including that committee’s oversight of and responsibility for the Mission Fulfillment Report (MFR) and related processes. Representatives from each area of the college were asked to serve on the IEC. The faculty chair was chosen by Executive Cabinet after an open call for applications.
- Executive Cabinet drafted core themes, objectives, and indicators in Winter 2021.
- The draft is aligned with Highline’s commitment to closing equity gaps and improving student success, and being a welcoming and inclusive campus.
- It is responsive to the NWCCU 2020 Standards of Accreditation. The new standards focus explicitly and extensively on student success and the reduction of equity gaps.
- Some indicators reflect national research on using “early momentum metrics” as indicators because improvements in those early metrics can happen quickly, and they are linked to longer term increases in completion.
- An important intention behind the draft is to make persistent equity gaps visible so that they can be addressed in a systematic way. The goal of the MFR is not simply to measure, but to focus on areas that need improvement.
- Specific strategies for addressing barriers and gaps are not necessarily identified in the MFR itself—specific strategies for improving student success and closing equity gaps are more likely to be found in the Institutional Effectiveness Plans created by units across the college, as well as in Program Review/Program Improvement plans created by instructional departments and programs.
- Executive Cabinet members shared the MFR draft with governance groups in their respective areas, and feedback from those groups has been incorporated into the current draft.
- The newly constituted Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC) began meeting in Spring 2021. Members of the IEC provided feedback on the draft MFR, and reached out to their constituent groups for additional feedback in Fall 2021. That feedback has been incorporated into this draft.
- The previous MFR has been reviewed to ensure that key concepts were moved forward into this version.
- Feedback provided by the consultants supporting the Equity First Strategic Planning process (received July 2021) was incorporated into this draft. The EFSP Core Team also provided feedback on the MFR draft in spring 2022, to ensure that the MFR reflects our campus and our intention to focus on closing equity gaps in student access, achievement and completion based on disaggregated data.
- The draft was reviewed by the IEC and Guided Pathways leadership with the goal of integrating key areas of work underway through Highline’s Guided Pathways initiative, which led to additional changes.
- The new legislative mandates for DEI work and anti-racist training requirements have been incorporated into the MFR draft (SBCTC mandated DEI listening and feedback sessions beginning AY 22-23 (mandatory per HB 5227); SBCTC mandated DEI climate survey (per HB 5227) under Core Theme 3, and antiracist professional development in Core Theme 2.
- Per NWCCU guidelines, we are expected to compare ourselves with regional and national peers 1.B.2. We need to determine which national peers we will compare ourselves with. We have identified our specific peers within the SBCTC system.
About the format: From a coherence point of view, the specific measures should speak to the indicators; the indicators should speak to the objectives; the objectives should speak to the core themes.
About the length: The first draft from fall 2021 was purposefully very long and detailed, so that we begin by including the voices and measures of all areas of the college. IEC also anticipates that as HC learns to use the IE planning forms, some information currently in the MFR will be captured in those unit-specific assessment and improvement reports. IEC continued to shorten the document from January – September 2022 year.