Accreditation
Accreditation
Chabot College is a dynamic, student-centered community college that serves the educational, career, job skill, and personal development needs of our community. We provide culturally responsive, revitalizing, and sustaining learning and support services driven by a goal of equity. Building upon students’ strengths and voices, we empower students to achieve their goals and lead us towards an equitable and sustainable world.
Chabot College empowers students to reach their academic and career goals and to lead in sustainability, innovation, and equity in their communities and the world.
Learning and Teaching
- Providing an environment that fosters intellectual curiosity, creativity, innovation, critical thinking, and equity.
- Supporting the development of the whole person with compassion and care.
- Providing quality and culturally responsive, revitalizing, and sustaining educational experiences that meet students where they are and help them achieve their goals.
- Providing opportunities for career exploration and career readiness based on self-knowledge, interests, values, and skills.
- Holistically supporting students and making learning accessible to all.
Community, Inclusion, and Equity
- Establishing equity and inclusivity in our campus culture, decision- making, policies, and practices.
- Treating one another with respect, dignity and integrity.
- Providing a safe, welcoming, and well-maintained learning and working environment, free from anti-blackness and racism, discrimination, intimidation, harassment, and bullying.
- Practicing our work in an ethical and reflective manner.
- Honoring, respecting, and celebrating diversity, and valuing, in particular, the perspectives
of those most impacted by systemic inequality.
Integrity: Individual and Collective Responsibility
- Valuing broad participation and collaborating through open communication, professionalism, and commitment to working together.
- Developing responsible and compassionate community members with a sense of individual and social responsibility.
- Adhering to the highest standards of ethics and public stewardship.
- Providing resources to make it possible for students to achieve their goals.
Innovation, Growth, and Sustainability
- Fostering innovative instruction, student services, operations, and organizational culture.
- Advocating for change geared towards a just, equitable, and sustainable world.
- Providing professional development and continued learning opportunities for all employees.
The learning outcomes for programs in service areas are called Service Area Outcomes (SAOs). DSPS: ACE is one of many Service Areas across the campus, which also include the Library, the Learning Connection, Reprographics, and the Veteran Resource Center, and many more. The OAC and the Office of Academic Services approved the following policies for service areas:
- A minimum of two Service Area Outcomes are required by each Service Area.
- Service Area Outcomes should be assessed at least once every 5 years
- Service Area Outcomes and Assessment results must be publicized in an accessible location (such as the Course Catalog, Program Review App or the Service Area’s websites).
The SAOs for DSPS: ACE are:
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Ensure excellent and equitable student access to accommodation services, to support student persistence towards equitable educational goal attainment.
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Promote student and staff awareness about accommodation services, through multiple modes of outreach and inreach, to increase the number of students that are aware of and utilizing accommodation services.
Results of surveys on DSPS SAOs and general efficinecy and effectiveness: DSPS SAO Survey results