Owens College was presented with new accreditation standards. The accreditation association presented a new effectiveness criteria and Owens College will be the first institution to undergo the new system. Owens College’s new accreditation standards will be operating under the assumptions associated with the goal model of effectiveness. The ways in which this new emphasis maybe a challenge for Owens College starts with faculty members not collectively coming together to bring about a common goal. The faculty does not appear to be striving to reach a level of achievement that they can identify with and would claim as a legitimate objective. There is the belief of some faculty members that providing the accreditation people with
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Goals are identified by establishing the general goal, discovering objectives for its accomplishment, and defining a set of activities for each objective (Barnat, 2014). Effectiveness, under the goal model, is effective if it accomplishes its goal over the long term. To meet the challenge of goal model of effectiveness Owens College would need to attain identified output targets, such as benchmarking, performance finding, institutional expectations, performance expectations, and service evaluation instruments (Bess & Dee, 2012). Owens College faculty members may benefit from paying more attention to goals because they would be able to see the importance of goals, they would be able to give rationalization of goals, and they would be able to acknowledge the satisfaction of achieving the goals. Goals can guide the activities of faculty members at Owens College. Goals justify Owens College existence and can enable the college to obtain resources, revenue, community, and society support. Goals provide standards for evaluating Owens College performance, and can motivate the faculty members to work in collaboration. Goals established by Owens College can aid the school in preparing for future changes and it informs faculty members where the college is going and how the school plans to get there. Owens College is effective as long as it can achieve the goals …show more content…
Owens College might be able to go about developing operational goals to assess its performance on liberal arts learning outcomes by providing a specific basis for evaluation of performance, by breaking down a larger goal into workable tasks. The focus of operational goals is narrow, measurable, concrete and specific (Baker & Baldwin, 2015). For example, “Owens College liberal arts program admission will include 50 foreign new students next semester” verses “the college’s future curriculum will include the Japanese language as the foreign language requirement.” Providing a clear operational goal, faculty members at Owens College can easily determine when they have been
Goals are identified by establishing the general goal, discovering objectives for its accomplishment, and defining a set of activities for each objective (Barnat, 2014). Effectiveness, under the goal model, is effective if it accomplishes its goal over the long term. To meet the challenge of goal model of effectiveness Owens College would need to attain identified output targets, such as benchmarking, performance finding, institutional expectations, performance expectations, and service evaluation instruments (Bess & Dee, 2012). Owens College faculty members may benefit from paying more attention to goals because they would be able to see the importance of goals, they would be able to give rationalization of goals, and they would be able to acknowledge the satisfaction of achieving the goals. Goals can guide the activities of faculty members at Owens College. Goals justify Owens College existence and can enable the college to obtain resources, revenue, community, and society support. Goals provide standards for evaluating Owens College performance, and can motivate the faculty members to work in collaboration. Goals established by Owens College can aid the school in preparing for future changes and it informs faculty members where the college is going and how the school plans to get there. Owens College is effective as long as it can achieve the goals …show more content…
Owens College might be able to go about developing operational goals to assess its performance on liberal arts learning outcomes by providing a specific basis for evaluation of performance, by breaking down a larger goal into workable tasks. The focus of operational goals is narrow, measurable, concrete and specific (Baker & Baldwin, 2015). For example, “Owens College liberal arts program admission will include 50 foreign new students next semester” verses “the college’s future curriculum will include the Japanese language as the foreign language requirement.” Providing a clear operational goal, faculty members at Owens College can easily determine when they have been