AQIP at Cowley
Cowley College is a quality-driven institution that is committed to a systematic approach to continuous
quality improvement.

Our dedication to learning excellence
and personal enrichment ensures that
our administration, faculty and staff promote quality education to all of our students.

AQIP was launched in July 1999 with a generous grant from the Pew Charitable Trusts. AQIP, the Academic Quality Improvement Program, infuses the principles and benefits of continuous improvement into the culture of colleges and universities by providing an alternative process through which an already-accredited institution can maintain its accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. With AQIP, an institution demonstrates it meets accreditation standards and expectations through sequences of events that align with those ongoing activities that characterize organizations striving to improve their performance.

Fall Inservice 2008
The Fall Inservice on August 13, 2008, provided an opportunity for the Cowley community to be updated on the progress of the Institution's quality initiatives and it's progress toward reaffirmation of accreditation. Action Project team members were also recognized for their efforts during the presentation.

"Discover the Noise" In-Service October 6, 2006
A day-long session was designed to aid in the exploration of "the Noise" that makes Cowley College the unique learning community that it is and to amplify the bet of this "noise" in the creation of what Cowley College will become in the years ahead.

This in-service was facilitated by Dr. David Gatewood, an Organizational Development Consultant. He used an Appreciative Inquiry approach to:
1. Discover the noise of Cowley's past, focusing on "whats' working," successes and "high point" experiences
2. Identify which of Cowley's great noise, its positive core of what people value most, should be part of Cowley's future, and
3. Create images of what the noise of the future, based on the best of the past should look like at Cowley.

Read the Provocative Propositions that were written during this in-service.

A visual representation of Cowley that was
created by college employees at the in-service.

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