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Action Projects

Action projects are the vehicles through which the college focuses on improving specific areas. Learn how new projects are developed** (PDF format, 22 KB, 1 page).

Submit Action Project Agendas and Meeting Minutes to AQIP.meeting@heartland.edu

Current Projects:

• Defining a Comprehensive Career/Placement Process: To educate and promote a broad-based understanding and use of available career and workforce services and resources required; define the ideal career resource process; and identify resources to reach the ideal.
• Assessment Academy: The Assessment Academy initiatives consist of the Cornerstone and Gradebook Projects.
• Campus Recycling Review and Recommendations: To conduct an inventory of current campus recycling efforts, identify best practices at other institutions, and develop recommendations to enhance the College's recycling program.
• Academic Integrity: To build an institutional culture of integrity that is communicated and implemented with all college stakeholders in a meaningful and consistent way.
• NADE Certification for Developmental Writing and Math Programs: To help identify specific problems within the Developmental Writing and Math Programs in a way that will help HCC fix those problems and strengthen the program. The result of the certification project will be a strategic plan for improving the success and retention rates of students taking developmental English and math courses at HCC.

Developing Projects:

• College Retention: Using input from all college departments, (including faculty, staff, and students); (1) establish what HCC currently knows about retention efforts at HCC; (2) develop a Retention Planning Model which can be used as a guide for the development of a retention policies and guidelines for retention programming at HCC.

Retired Projects:

• Faculty Academy: Organize an orientation class for new college instructors and professional development classes open to all instructors.
• Campus Communication: Foster a sense of community at the College by providing opportunities for more effective communication.
• Tracking Student Success: Develop an operational definition as a first step in the process of measuring and improving student success.
• Tracking Developmental Education Student Success: Initiate the development of a comprehensive, integrated plan to track and improve developmental student success.