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It is devoted to a mission.
It has a clear understanding of what the results of its program should be for students.
It is student-oriented.
Its goals must express what it does for the whole student.
It knows itself.
The school operates from an examined vision of service to students, family, and community.
It is self-correcting.
It demonstrates a capacity to control their own quality.
It keeps its promises.
It delivers the programs and services that it advertises.
It accepts objective evaluation.
Outside evaluators who have no prior involvement with the school or its sponsoring authority provide periodic evaluation.
It plans for its future.
It has plans that include strategies for improving its quality on a continuous basis.
It examines student success.
It obtains and analyzes objective evidence on student growth and presses for higher levels of learning for all students.
It participates in the responsibilities of the academic profession.
It participates in the self-renewing activity of evaluation.
It is recognized.
It cares enough about what it does to seek validation through recognition.
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