Building a Culture of Completion-Administrators, Faculty and Staff 

Adminstrators, Faculty and Staff Pledge

As an administrator, faculty or staff member, I recognize and celebrate my role, working alongside my colleagues, in promoting and ensuring an educated citizenry and a globally competitive workforce. I affirm the need for a dramatic increase in the number of individuals earning postsecondary degrees and certifications to fulfill critical local, state, national and international goals. With the “completion agenda” as a global imperative, I have an obligation through my work to meet the challenge while holding firmly to traditional values of access, opportunity, and quality.

I Commit…

To a change in the community college culture, from an emphasis on access only to an emphasis on student success.

To eliminating the attainment gaps that separate student groups on the basis of race, ethnicity, and family income, while increasing success rates for all students.

To acting on facts and proven research to make positive changes in the interest of student success and college completion.

To providing and/or engaging in development opportunities focused on evidence-based educational practice to improve student learning, persistence, and completion.

To creating a positive learning environment, outlining clear objectives, holding high standards and implementing proven practices that encourage and promote engaged learning.

To reaching out to students by mentoring, encouraging, and guiding them toward college completion.

I Ask…

Everyone on my campus (trustees, administrators, faculty, academic advisors, financial aid officers, fiscal office staff, support staff, physical plant staff, security, ancillary programs staff members, student organizations, and students) to help examine current college practices, to identify ways to help students understand the added value of degrees and certifications, and to help them make progress toward their goals.

My students to commit, by attending class; being prepared; asking for help when needed; and engaging actively in discussion, assignments and projects with me and with other students, both in and out of class. 

Other administrators, faculty, and staff members to join me by signing and sharing this commitment and call to action. 

Every student to help one other student to succeed.

As a community college administrator, faculty, or staff member, I commit and pledge to promote practices and strategies that will produce 50% more students with high-quality degrees and certificates by 2020. I call upon every sector and constituency of my college and community to join me in this work.

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