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Action Projects are intended to drive continuous improvement by targeting them for completion in the short time frame of a few years. Inver Hills' Action Projects are published in AQIP's Action Project Directory. Each fall, Inver Hills provides Action Project Updates on the status of current projects, and AQIP provides feedback on these updates. As Action Projects are completed, they are retired and new projects are chosen to take their place. Action Project successes are incorporated into the future iterations of the Systems Portfolio.
Inver Hills is endeavoring to improve communication related to decision-making processes, to implement processes by which employee input is recognized, and to implement processes where engagement in college initiatives is enhanced. We propose beginning this initiative by improving existing campus-wide internal communication and decision-making processes and developing new effective means of communication between groups and departments.
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Finish What You Start was recognized as an Innovation of the Year |
The goal of this project to transform the College's culture to one that promotes the idea of "Finish What You Start." The project will focus on the following outcomes:
Action Project Report and Review 2007 
Action Project Report and Review 2008
Using grant funding, Inver Hills will design and implement Learning Communities targeting underserved students. This project entitled COMPASS (Communities of Mentors, Peers, and Successful Students) is designed to address the challenge of retaining students to their goal completion. Through Learning Communities the College hopes to increase student success in degree completion and student satisfaction levels. A successful implementation of Learning Communities may also create a culture change in the College.
Action Project Report and Review 2007
Action Project Report and Review 2008
Through increased services and programming targeting adult learners and by creating easy and continuous access, the College will increase adult student success in goal completion and increase adult student satisfaction levels as determined by results of the Adult Learner Inventory.
Action Project Report and Review 2007
Action Project Report and Review 2008
Develop a mentoring program to increase the persistence / goal attainment of students who participate in the project as compared with overall college retention rates.
Action Project Plan
Action Project Report 2004
Action Project Review 2004
Action Project Report 2005
Action Project Report 2006
Action Project Review 2006
Create a three-year review cycle for each program/department at the college. Each year, one-third of all programs/departments participate in review. The goals of this project are to:
Inver Hills' Program and Department Review Policy and Procedures
MnSCU Academic Program Review Policy
MnSCU Program Summary Reports - Fiscal Year 2005
Action Project Plan
Action Project Report 2004
Action Project Review 2004
Action Project Report 2005
Action Project Report 2006
Action Project Review 2006
Analyze and improve the college's efforts to attract, support, and serve students who are under-represented among the college's current population and those whose backgrounds or life circumstances may hinder their educational opportunities. Specific groups include:
Action Project Plan
Action Project Report 2004
Action Project Review 2004
Action Project Report and Review 2005
Action Project Report 2006
Action Project Review 2006