Ivor Baker

This Self-Study Design outlines Medgar Evers College's plan for its Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation, aligning its institutional priorities with the CUNY strategic plan. Key focus areas include enhancing student retention and graduation, providing high-quality educational programs, strengthening partnerships, and ensuring financial sustainability and operational efficiency. The self-study aims to demonstrate compliance, foster continuous improvement, and reinforce accountability.

This Strategic Alignment Report for Medgar Evers College outlines the institution's alignment with CUNY system-wide goals and initiatives, tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) and setting targets through 2030. The report details campus initiatives across four strategic pillars: enhancing access to higher education for diverse student populations, improving student outcomes and closing academic equity gaps, advancing community engagement through research and service, and modernizing the college's operational systems and facilities. It serves as a tool for action planning and performance reflection.

This document details the timeline for a Middle States Self-Study process, outlining key tasks and milestones from Fall 2023 to Summer 2026. The process involves assembling steering committees and working groups, drafting and finalizing the Self-Study Design Document, continuous data and evidence collection, report writing, engaging the college community through information sessions, and coordinating with the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE). The timeline culminates in an MSCHE campus visit and a commission meeting to determine action.

This document is a data book detailing the University Performance Management Process for CUNY. It outlines the institution's strategic direction through five main pillars: Access and Completion, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Knowledge Creation and Innovative Research, and Funding Model. Key objectives include expanding online education, increasing access for adult and returning students, enhancing representation of underrepresented minority students, improving graduation rates, bridging opportunity gaps, strengthening college readiness partnerships, boosting STEM enrollment, integrating experiential learning, monitoring post-graduate outcomes, increasing faculty scholarship and research impact, diversifying faculty, and optimizing the funding model through best business practices and advocacy.

The meeting included discussion and revisions to the "Functions" of Academic Standards and Regulations, with the aim of reinstating them as a Standing Committee of the College Council. The vote on the language was scheduled for the February 2023 meeting.