Five Dimensions of Quality: A Common Sense Guide to Accreditation and Accountability

CHAPTER 5INTEGRITYDoing the Right Thing

Your college’s stakeholders expect you to look out consistently for the best interests of your students, your college, and your stakeholders. They expect your college to demonstrate that it meets its responsibilities and keeps its promises. They expect honesty, discussed in Chapter 16, and fairness, discussed in Chapter 7. In short, they expect your college to do the right thing.

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Stakeholders

A stakeholder is simply someone whom your college serves, who has an interest in your college, who is involved with your college, or who is affected by what it does.

Meet Your Responsibilities

Quality is defined in Chapter 3 as excellence: a quality college does an excellent job at whatever ...