WC9: Relationships


These specific questions have been researched and addressed by Writing Committee 9: Building
Collaborative Relationships, click "Category 9" to read JCC's responses.

Context
9C1 What are your institution's key collaborative relationships?
  Note 1: Address specific relationships with educational institutions, businesses, and other organizations. Also, address the nature of the relationship (existing or emerging, feeder or receiver, community support, outsource, etc.). Activity that promotes internal collaboration among employees is best addressed in Category 4,Valuing People.
  Note 2: External collaborative partners might include organizations that are the sources of your entering students (high schools, community colleges, places of work); organizations that are the destination of your exiting students (4-year institutions, graduate schools, places of work); suppliers such as food services, book suppliers, and student recruiting services; external agencies such as state coordinating boards or state, local, or national governments; religious organizations; other institutions or consortia of institutions; etc.
9C2 In what ways do these collaborative relationships reinforce your institutional mission? If applicable, how do these relationships support changes in your institutional directions as addressed in Category 8, Planning Continuous Improvement?
  Note 3: Involvement of external collaborative partners in planning processes may also be addressed in Category 8, Planning Continuous Improvement.
Processes
9P1 How do you create, prioritize, and build relationships with the:
educational institutions and other organizations from which you receive your students?
educational institutions and employers that depend on the supply of your students and graduates that meet these organization's requirements?
organizations that provide services to your students?
education associations, external agencies, consortia partners, and the general community with whom you interact? 
9P2 How do you ensure the varying needs of those involved in these relationships are being met?
9P3 How do you create and build relationships within your institution? How do you assure integration and communication across these relationships?
9P4 What measures of building collaborative relationships do you collect and analyze regularly?
Results
9R1 What are your results in building your key collaborative relationships?
9R2 Regarding 9R1, how do your results compare with the results of other higher education institutions and, if appropriate, organizations outside of the education community?
  Note 4: For 9R1 through 9R2, address historical trends and patterns, as appropriate.
Improvements
9I1 How do you improve your current processes and systems for building collaborative relationships?
9I2 With regard to your current results for student learning and development, how do you set targets for improvement? What specific improvement priorities are you targeting and how will these be addressed? How do you communicate your current results and improvement priorities to relationship partners, faculty, staff, administrators, and appropriate students and stakeholders?