| The institution's resource base supports its current educational programs and its plans for maintaining and strengthening their quality in the future. | |
| 5.A. The institution’s resource base supports its current educational programs and its plans for maintaining and strengthening their quality in the future. |
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| 1.The institution has the fiscal and human resources and physical and technological infrastructure sufficient to support its operations wherever and however programs are delivered. |
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| 2. The institution’s resource allocation process ensures that its educational purposes are not adversely affected by elective resource allocations to other areas or disbursement of revenue to a superordinate entity. |
Enrollment History and Projections Socially Responsible Investment Committee Charge Earlham Foundation Investment Policy Enrollment History and Projections |
| 3.The goals incorporated into mission statements or elaborations of mission statements are realistic in light of the institution’s organization, resources, and opportunities. |
Facilities Condition Assessment Sightlines Facilities Benchmarking Sustainability Tracking and Reporting System Sustainability in Higher Education Facilities Condition Assessment Sightlines Facilities Benchmarking |
| 4. The institution’s staff in all areas are appropriately qualified and trained. |
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| 5.The institution has a well-developed process in place for budgeting and for monitoring expense. | |
| 5.B. The institution's governance and administrative structures promote effective leadership and support collaborative processes that enable the institution to fulfill its mission. |
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| 1. The institution has and employs policies and procedures to engage its internal constituencies—including its governing board, administration, faculty, staff, and students—in the institution’s governance. | Governance Manual |
| 2. The governing board is knowledgeable about the institution; it provides oversight for the institution’s financial and academic policies and practices and meets its legal and fiduciary responsibilities. | Earlham By-laws |
| 3. The institution enables the involvement of its administration, faculty, staff, and students in setting academic requirements, policy, and processes through effective structures for contribution and collaborative effort. | |
| 5.C. The institution engages in systematic and integrated planning. |
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| 1. The institution allocates its resources in alignment with its mission and priorities. | |
| 2. The institution links its processes for assessment of student learning, evaluation of operations, planning, and budgeting. | |
| 3. The planning process encompasses the institution as a whole and considers the perspectives of internal and external constituent groups. | |
| 4.The institution plans on the basis of a sound understanding of its current capacity. Institutional plans anticipate the possible impact of fluctuations in the institution’s sources of revenue, such as enrollment, the economy, and state support. | |
| 5. Institutional planning anticipates emerging factors, such as technology, demographic shifts, and globalization. | |
| 5.D. The institution works systematically to improve its performance. | |
| 1. The institution develops and documents evidence of performance in its operations. | |
| 2. The institution learns from its operational experience and applies that learning to improve its institutional effectiveness, capabilities, and sustainability, overall and in its component parts. | |
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