Our Values and Goals:
Our Values:
The Values of the College of Health and Human Development are based in "The Four C's of Caring, Compassion, Commitment and Competence."
Caring: our faculty care about students and work diligently to assist them and to ensure that our academic programs are of the highest quality and fully accredited.
Compassion: a key ingredient of our college environment is demonstrated by faculty advising students and ensuring that internships and field experiences will provide life-long learning and future opportunities. Students are assigned in a variety of settings where they are taught how to reach out to those in need, be it a child with a physical disability or an elderly person struggling with Alzheimer's Disease.
Commitment: It takes a high level of faculty commitment to ensure that students will make a difference in the lives of others and the communities we serve.
Competence: the end result and application of knowledge gained in the classroom, laboratories and community internships. Students graduate from our programs with the knowledge and skills sought by major corporations and health care facilities that are necessary to forge successful careers in their chosen professions. The high caliber and diversity of our students, alumni, faculty and staff are impressive. It is truly an honor to serve HHD as dean.
Our Goals:
1: Ensure that graduates are well prepared for their chosen professions.
- Align programs with accreditation and/or other relevant professional standards;
- Obtain human and other resources for identified program needs;
- Provide creative, flexible and integrated learning experiences;
- Expand service partnerships and collaborations that bring professional leadership to the external community;
- Assess students’ professional competency by appropriate measures, e.g., results of culminating experiences, passage rates on certification exams, alumni surveys, employer surveys and advisory boards.
2: To become a Learning-Centered college, providing optimal learning-centered educational environments.
- Clearly define student learning outcomes for courses and programs and relate to accreditations as appropriate;
- Identify appropriate assessments of student learning;
- Explicitly state students’ responsibilities in the learning process;
- Foster student participation in active, meaningful and collaborative learning experiences;
- Provide frequent and timely feedback to students;
- Use assessment data to inform improvements in programs and services for students;
- Demonstrate a commitment to learning.
3: Identify, recruit and retain faculty committed to teaching, scholarship and service goals of the college.
- Develop a model process for faculty recruiting and retention;
- Support faculty commitments to research, thereby enhancing the knowledge base of health & Human development fields;
- Provide mentoring and support services to faculty.