Assessment Assessment
Jamestown College has a genuine interest in a continuing assessment of student learning as a way of measuring its success in meeting its mission and enhancing its academic programs. The assessment process is guided by the foundational values and the mission of the College. To clarify this connection, seven purposes that flow from the mission statement and fourteen institutional objectives that are derived from those purposes provide linkage between program outcomes and the college mission. These are listed below: Purposes: 1. To offer an environment that recognizes the distinctiveness of each student and in which teaching and scholarship lead to an encounter with the Christian faith. 2. To encourage the development of creative and critical thinking through intelligent contact with the accumulate resources of human thought and experience. 3. To provide a curriculum of academic excellence for professional preparation or advanced study. 4. To promote individual self-worth, selfdirection, and wholeness. 5. To promote in students a desire for lifelong learning and selfdevelopment. 6. To impart knowledge of the world and promote the responsible engagement in it through unselfish service to others. 7. To build character as exemplified by the following traits: Trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, citizenship, courage, and caring.
Institutional Objectives: Jamestown College a) maintains academic, professional and pre-professional programs that prepare students for entry into the work force or for further education. (Academic Preparation) b) provides students with a general education curriculum rooted in the liberal arts to improve critical thinking skills and increase general knowledge. (General Education) c) provides opportunities for students to learn basic ethical principles and to engage in character-building activities. (Character Building) d) provides support services to assist students in achieving their academic goals. (Academic Support Services) e) manages financial resources to support its objectives and strategies in a manner that ensures the institution’s viability in the short and long-term. (Sound Fiscal Management) f) provides extra-curricular opportunities for students to learn and grow on a personal, social, and civic level. (Student Support Services) g) fosters an appreciation of difference through the integration of curricular and co-curricular experiences that are intentionally developed to help students integrate into a global society. (Diversity) h) operates within a system of shared governance in which the opinions and values of constituents contribute to decisions and responsibility for success is shared. (Shared Governance) i) recognizes and fosters opportunities to connect with, integrate into, and participate with the larger community in which it resides. (Community) 48