Introduction to Criterion Five: Leading and Communicating
Leading and Communicating addresses how an institution’s leadership and communication structures, networks, and processes guide the institution in setting directions, making decisions, seeking future opportunities, and building and sustaining a learning environment. It examines the institution's processes and systems related to: - Leading activities
- Communicating activities
- Alignment of leadership system practices
- Institutional values and expectations
- Direction setting
- Future opportunity seeking
- Decision making
- Use of data
- Leadership development and sharing
- Succession planning
- Measures
- Analysis of results
- Improvement efforts
Leading and Communicating at NTC Northwest Technical College and its Provost, Dr. Charles Giammona, are dedicated to innovative leadership and new visions of the future. The College’s administrative structure is, in itself, innovative in that its President, Dr. Jon Quistgaard, is also the President of Bemidji State University located a scant three miles from the technical college. The leadership style of the President clearly and firmly reflects his support of each institution’s individual uniquenesses and he, above all, is committed to the maintenance of each institutional mission. The broad scope of experience and educational background of each leader—both the president and the provost—combine to provide the college with an opportunity to reinvent itself in philosophy and vision, yet strengthen its roots of high quality technical education that develops not only technically skilled and knowledgeable graduates, but ever increasingly, learners who recognize the importance of engagement and applying personal initiative and perseverance in this complex world. Category Five addresses the College’s commitment to leadership and communications as it carries out its mission and purposes and reaches toward its vision of education in the 21st Century. To learn more about how the college leads and communicates, click on the categories below or on the menu at the left. Processes Results Improvements
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