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.
