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Introduction to Northwest Technical College's Systems Portfolio
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    Northwest Technical College is a personal, quality-focused technological college offering diplomas, certificates, and two-year associate’s degree occupational programs.  While we primarily serve northern Minnesota’s residents, learners come to the College from the across the state and the nation to participate in the College’s on-campus programs, as well as our distance education degree programs offered via the Internet.  (See NTC Today Video)    

     This site contains Northwest Technical College’s Systems Portfolio.  This portfolio is a log of the College’s activities with regard to the nine categories of the Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), which is an accreditation program of the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. 

      The portfolio gives an overview of the context in which the College implements each of these nine categories, the processes that the College
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uses to implement the things we do, the results achieved from our efforts, and the improvements that we have made and plan to make based on these results.   Each section of the portfolio responds to specific questions centered on one of the categories, which are shown in the menu column on the left of this page.

     As you work through the portfolio, you will notice many active links (underlined in blue).  Clicking on these will take you to a link to the document cited.   Use the browser's back arrow key to return to your previous page.  You are invited to provide feedback by clicking on the "Feedback" links.

 

     To see the history of Northwest Technical College's affiliation with the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, click on the link at the bottom of this page.    

 

 For more information on Northwest

Member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities
Technical College and its Systems Portfolio, contact Dr. Barbara Lee Schueppert at barb.schueppert@ntcmn.edu.  For more information on the Academic Quality Improvement Program, visit their website at http://www.aqip.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Attached Document or File Higher Learning Commission AQIP website  To learn more about the Higher Learning Commission's Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP), visit the AQIP website.
Attached Document or FileHLC Timeline  This timeline shows accreditation events.
Attached Document or FileNTC's Accreditation Timeline with the Higher Learning Commission  
Last updated 9/14/2009 10:59:58 AM
 
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Faculty and staff, please provide your feedback on the Systems Portfolio.  Be as specific as you can be in providing suggestions for improvement, missing information, corrections, clarifications.     Read more...
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