The college community, she added, is “actively addressing accreditation-related issues.”
Galvin Deleon Guerrero, NMC’s accreditation liaison officer and director of institutional effectiveness, said “accredited colleges have the option of submitting a supplemental report to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, and NMC wants to demonstrate that it is monitoring and ensuring the progress of the action items discussed in the Show Cause Report we submitted earlier.”
NMC earlier created standard teams composed of faculty, staff and students to demonstrate that the college complies with the commission’s eligibility requirements and meets commission standards.
The standard teams continue to meet on a weekly basis and report their progress to the Accreditation Reaffirmation Team, the steering committee formed by Cabrera to organize and lead all accreditation efforts.
Cabrera said the progress of these teams will be included in the supplemental report, which NMC will submit before the June 2011 meeting of the commission.
The College Council, one of NMC’s governing bodies with representatives from students, staff, and faculty, has tasked the Program Review and Assessment Outcome Committee and the Budget and Finance Committee to improve the process of integrating program needs and budgeting, she said.
Cabrera added that the process will be a check and balance system to ensure that the college’s limited resources are fairly and economically distributed to the programs and services that need it most.
It will also be a system of identifying what cost-cutting measures need to be taken and, most importantly, what type of revenue-generating activities need to be launched, she said.
