Episode Five Nuts and Bolts

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Through a Common Lens: A Podcast to Prepare for Our Accreditation Site Visit has 5 episodes. One episode will be published each week with the goal of helping the campus community get to know UMKC through a common lens.

Episode Five: Nuts and Bolts

Episode five features the UMKC Accreditation Reaffirmation Cochairs – Cindy Pemberton and Ken Novak. Their narrative about UMKC’s accreditation reaffirmation gets down to brass tacks. If you want to know whether to wear Roo gear on December 2 and 3, or how to best prepare, or where to find resources – this is the episode for you. 

The podcast is edited and hosted by Alexis Petri. Music, “Spirit of the Girl ” from Spirit by Kevin MacLeod. Released: 2017. Track 4. Genre: New Age.

 

Episode Four: Alignment

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Through a Common Lens: A Podcast to Prepare for Our Accreditation Site Visit has 5 episodes. One episode will be published each week with the goal of helping the campus community get to know UMKC through a common lens.Episode Four: Alignment

Episode four continues a conversation with UMKC’s Provost about accreditation, higher education, and our university.

The podcast is edited and hosted by Alexis Petri.

Music “Truth in the Stones” from Spirit by Kevin MacLeod. Released: 2017. (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Thank you to Angela Elam and New Letters on the Air for recording the interviews.

Episode Three: Leveraging Accreditation

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Through a Common Lens: A Podcast to Prepare for Our Accreditation Site Visit has 5 episodes. One episode will be published each week with the goal of helping the campus

community get to know UMKC through a common lens.

Episode Three: Leveraging Accreditation

Episode three features UMKC’s Provost talking about how to leverage accreditation for continuous improvement. In this episode, which is the first of two parts, Provost Bichelmeyer discusses what accreditation is and what faculty, staff, and administrators can get out of it.

The podcast is edited and hosted by Alexis Petri.

Music “Truth in the Stones” from Spirit by Kevin MacLeod. Released: 2017. (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Thank you to Angela Elam and New Letters on the Air for recording the interviews.

Episode Two: We’ll Go to the Moon and Back

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Through a Common Lens: A Podcast to Prepare for Our Accreditation Site Visit has 5 episodes. One episode will be published each week with the goal of helping the campus community get to know UMKC through a common lens.

Episode Two: We’ll Go to the Moon and Back

Episode two features UMKC’s Chancellor talking about what accreditation is and why it is important. In this episode Chancellor Agrawal shares three stories and his perspective on why universities matter and why we strive for excellence.

The podcast is edited and hosted by Alexis Petri. Music “Crinoline Dreams” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.

Thank you to Angela Elam and New Letters on the Air for recording the interviews.

Episode One Second Half: Well Run It

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Through a Common Lens: A Podcast to Prepare for Our Accreditation Site Visit has 5 episodes. One episode will be published each week with the goal of helping the campus community get to know UMKC through a common lens.

Episode One: Well, Run It.

  • Part one: At least Newcomb got a building named after him
  • Part two: Problem’s with Dr Decker’s vision
  • Part three: Selling KC on the vision
  • Part four: Joining the University of Missouri System
  • Part five: Full circle
  • Part six: Mythbusting

Episode one features Chris Wolff talking about UMKC’s history. From Ernest Newcomb who never got to be president, but ran the university without official power, to Dr. Decker’s vision that the university be an elite liberal arts college, this two-part podcast shares the story of UMKC’s establishment, early struggles, and how they shape our university today.

The podcast is edited and hosted by Alexis Petri. Music, “Spirit of the Girl ” from Spirit by Kevin MacLeod. Released: 2017. Track 4. Genre: New Age.

191022 HLC Podcast Episode One Transcript.

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Episode One First Half: Well Run It

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Through a Common Lens: A Podcast to Prepare for Our Accreditation Site Visit has 5 episodes. One episode will be published each week with the goal of helping the campus community get to know UMKC through a common lens.

Episode One: Well, Run It.

  • Part one: At least Newcomb got a building named after him
  • Part two: Problem’s with Dr Decker’s vision
  • Part three: Selling KC on the vision
  • Part four: Joining the University of Missouri System
  • Part five: Full circle
  • Part six: Mythbusting

Play the first half below. For the second half, visit the next post: Episode One Second Half: Well Run It

Episode one features Chris Wolff talking about UMKC’s history. From Ernest Newcomb who never got to be president, but ran the university without official power, to Dr. Decker’s vision that the university be an elite liberal arts college, this two-part podcast shares the story of UMKC’s establishment, early struggles, and how they shape our university today.

The podcast is edited and hosted by Alexis Petri. Music, “Spirit of the Girl ” from Spirit by Kevin MacLeod. Released: 2017. Track 4. Genre: New Age.

191022 HLC Podcast Episode One Transcript.

#takethesurvey

UMKC is preparing for the Higher Learning Commission’s comprehensive evaluation of our university and programs this fall, culminating with a site visit Dec. 2 and Dec. 3. A team of faculty, staff and administrators are working hard at assembling our assurance statement and evidence. Accreditation is an opportunity for the university to see how we measure up to quality standards.

In early October UMKC students will receive an email asking them to take a short student opinion survey (approximately five minutes). This opinion survey is one of two ways the Higher Learning Commission plans to hear from students about their experiences at UMKC. The other will be to talk with them during their visit. The survey link will be active Oct. 7 through Oct. 16.

Please encourage students you know to take the survey. If they have questions about it, please talk with them about our accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission.

Resources:

Mock Open Forums

Dear Colleagues,

Please join me and members of our UMKC campus community for our upcoming Mock Open Forums on Thursday, September 26 and Friday, September 27 as part of our Reaccreditation Process with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC).

UMKC needs your engagement in this process.

This fall, UMKC will be participating in HLC’s decennial review. This is part of our commitment to building and maintaining public trust and promoting best practices in higher education. The UMKC site visit with our external peer review team has been scheduled for Monday, December 2 and Tuesday, December 3. Please hold these important dates on your calendar.

Central to the December site visit and the HLC review processes are a series of open forums focused on HLC’s core criteria. The review will focus on student learning; education as a public purpose; promoting a culture of continuous improvement; encouraging transparency and ethical behavior and practice; and conducting planning and management of resources to ensure institutional sustainability and efficiency (among other things).

In order to prepare for our site visit, we will be conducting Mock Open Forums. We have invited two consultants to facilitate these sessions. They have provided the university with guidance and recommendations throughout our planning process, and we feel this will provide the university community with a good sense of what we can expect in December.

Each of us has a part to play in ensuring we are complying with the standards we have set in place. Your participation is critical to ensuring we are putting our best foot forward.

More information can be found at https://info.umkc.edu/accreditation/hlc/

Thank you for considering this request, and thanks again to the co-chairs, the steering committee members and university leaders who have been working so hard on this initiative. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ken Novak, UMKC HLC Accreditation co-chair, at novakk@umkc.edu.

Respectfully,

Barbara A. Bichelmeyer, Ph.D.
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Professor of Management

Thursday, September 26

Criterion 1 – Mission
Criterion 2 – Integrity: Ethical and Responsible Conduct
10-11 a.m. Mock Open Forum for Criterion 1 and Criterion 2
Bloch Executive Hall, Room 413

Criterion 3 – Teaching & Learning: Quality, Resources & Support
Criterion 4 – Teaching & Learning: Evaluation & Improvement
1-2:30 p.m. Mock Open Forum for Criterion 3 and Criterion 4
Bloch Executive Hall, Room 413

Friday, September 27

8-9 a.m. Mock Open Forum for Student Learning Outcome Assessment
Student Union, Room 401BC

Criterion 5 – Resources, Planning & Institutional Effectiveness
10-11 a.m. Mock Open Forum for Criterion 5
Student Union, Room 401BC

HLC Road Show

Members of the HLC Executive Committee are visiting a meeting near you. We are sharing updates and important information about the upcoming comprehensive evaluation site visit.

We are happy to present at your department or division meeting. If you would like members of the committee to speak at your meeting, please contact either Ken Novak or Alexis Petri.

HLC Road Show PowerPoint

HLC Key Talking Points5 (aka Ken’s Green Sheet)