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- Title
MISSION, VISION, AND CORE VALUES THROUGH ONLINE EDUCATION: A Case Study on Tribal College Leadership.
- Authors
Bunkowski, Lisa; Shelton, Kaye
- Abstract
As leaders of many higher education institutions determine online education is an important strategy for longterm success, one challenge this presents is the alignment of this approach with the institutional mission, vision, and core values-especially when these statements contain place-based emphases. The purpose of this descriptive, case study was to examine perceptions of leaders at a tribal college with several campus locations in the Pacific Northwest United States, regarding leadership strategies they determined to be most effective in leading their institution to achieve its mission, vision, and core values through online education. This college was selected because of the place-based focus of its vision and core values, as well as its commitment to online education. The data collected for this study included: interviews conducted and recorded through a secure video conferencing platform, and various publicly accessible planning and assessment documents. Effective strategies discussed by the participants fell into 4 categories: faculty and staff development, student support, strategic planning and assessment, and community collaboration. Critical to their success in achieving the mission, vision, and core values through online education was their emphasis on supporting students, followed closely by strategic planning efforts that engaged all levels of the institution as well as leaders of local tribal communities in a manner that balanced cultural and community values with those of regional accreditors.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EDUCATIONAL leadership; NATIVE American universities &; colleges; ONLINE education; TEACHER development; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; VISION
- Publication
Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2019, Vol 20, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1528-3518
- Publication type
Article