NEASC Self-Study
Steering Committee:
Mary Frances Malone*
Curt Naser*
Orin Grossman
Mark Reed
Lucy Katz
David Sapp
Katherine Schwab
William Weitzer
Fairfield University Committees for Eleven Standards
Standard One: Mission & Purposes - The institution's mission and purposes are appropriate to higher education, consistent with its charter or other operating authority, and implemented in a manner that complies with the Standards of the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. The institution's mission gives direction to its activities and provides a basis for the assessment and enhancement of the institution's effectiveness.
James Bowler, S.J. *
Mary Frances Malone
Ron Davidson
David Muccino '07
Standard Two: Planning & Evaluation - The institution undertakes planning and evaluation appropriate to its needs to accomplish and improve the achievement of its mission and purposes. It identifies its planning and evaluation priorities and pursues them effectively.
Georgia Day *
James Estrada
Curt Naser
Standard Three: Organization and Governance - The institution has a system of governance that facilitates the accomplishment of its mission and purposes and supports institutional effectiveness and integrity. Through its organizational design and governance structure, the institution creates and sustains an environment that encourages teaching, learning, service, scholarship, and where appropriate research and creative activity. It assures provision of support adequate for the appropriate functioning of each organizational component.
Charles Allen, S.J. *
Orin Grossman
Standard Four: The Academic Program - The institution's academic programs are consistent with and serve to fulfill its mission & purposes. The institution works systematically & effectively to plan, provide, oversee, evaluate, improve, & assure the academic quality & integrity of its academic programs & the credits & degrees awarded. The institution develops the systematic means to understand how & what students are learning & to use the evidence obtained to improve the academic program.
Edna Wilson *
Aaron Perkus
Jay Buss
Phil Greiner
Dan Geller
Dana Wilke
Vagos Hadjimichael
Sharon Clark - Graduate Student
Christopher Tsombanos '09
Standard Five: Faculty - The institution develops a faculty that is suited to the fulfillment of the institution's mission. Faculty qualifications, numbers, and performance are sufficient to accomplish the institution's mission and purposes. Faculty competently offer the institution's academic programs and fulfill those tasks appropriately assigned them.
Alan Katz *
James He
Tim Snyder
Meredith Wallace
Curt Naser
Roselie McDevitt
Paula Gill-Lopez
Standard Six: Students - Consistent with its mission, the institution defines the characteristics of the students it seeks to serve and provides an environment that fosters the intellectual and personal development of its students. It recruits, admits, enrolls, and endeavors to ensure the success of its students, offering the resources and services that provide them the opportunity to achieve the goals of their program as specified in institutional publications. The institution's interactions with students and prospective students are characterized by integrity.
Susan Birge *
Tom Pellegrino
William Johnson
Judy Dobai
James Fitzpatrick
Megan McConville '08
Standard Seven: Library and Other Information Resources - The institution demonstrates sufficient & appropriate information resources, services, instructional and information technology and utilizes them to support the fulfillment of its mission.
Joan Overfield *
Christina McGowan
Devin Hagan '06
Standard Eight: Physical and Technological Resources - The institution has sufficient and appropriate physical and technological resources necessary for the achievement of its purposes. It manages and maintains these resources in a manner to sustain and enhance the realization of institutional purposes.
Richard Taylor *
Robert Russo
Donald Adams
Greg Raucci '08
Standard Nine: Financial Resources - The institution's financial resources are sufficient to sustain the achievement of its educational objectives and to further institutional improvement now and in the foreseeable future. The institution demonstrates through verifiable internal and external factors its financial capacity to graduate its entering class. The institution administers its financial resources with integrity.
William Lucas *
Fred Wheeler
Mike Maccarone
Kenneth Fontain
Maria Regan
Standard Ten: Public Disclosure - In presenting itself to students, prospective students, and other members of the interested public, the institution provides information that is complete, accurate, accessible, clear and sufficient for intended audiences to make informed decisions about the institution.
Martha Milcarek *
Phyllis Fitzpatrick
Todd Pelazza
Barbara Kiernan
Georgia Day
Standard Eleven: Integrity - The institution subscribes to and advocates high ethical standards in the management of its affairs and in all of its dealings with students, faculty, staff, its governing board, external agencies and organizations, and the general public. Through its policies and practices, the institution endeavors to exemplify the values it articulates in its mission and related statements.
Susan LaFrance *
Mark Guglielmoni
William Lucas
David Sapp
Charles Allen, S.J.
Fairfield University Committees for Areas of Emphasis
Area one: Integration of the Core Curriculum - The Academic Division will create coherence within the core curriculum, both horizontally across disciplines and vertically in relation to the major. The academic Division will create specific structures, drawing on the resources of the Center for Academic Excellence and the Office of Mission and Identity, to foster discussion of the spirit and specifics of the core among faculty who teach it and develop a system for the regular assessment of the core.
Kathy Nantz *
Larry Miners
Roben Torosyan
Paul Lakeland
Laura McSweeney
David Schmidt
Marice Rose
Elizabeth Hohl
Aaron Perkus
Noel Appel
Jennifer Goldberg
(Liaison: Orin Grossman, Mary Frances Mal)
Area Two: Integration of Living and Learning - Working across traditional boundaries, Fairfield University will create a more intentional and holistic living and learning environment, which foster the integration of students' intellectual, social, ethical and spiritual growth. We will collaborate across divisions and departments to promote a campus culture that sustains our desire living and learning environment and a residential life setting that welcomes diversity and encourages respect.
Tom Pellegrino *
Joe DeFeo
Roben Torosyan
Mark Ligas
Elizabeth Petrino
Yohuru Williams
Joyce Shea
Robbin Crabtree
Linda Henkel
Deb Cady
Karen Donoghue
Matt Dinnan
Gary Nelson
Rob Wething
Michael Doody, S.J.
Melissa Quan
Tim Snyder
Heather Petraglia
Jim Mayzik, S.J.
Larri Mazon
Brian Torff
William Weitzer
Timothy Dee '08
(Liaison: Curt Naser)
Area Three: Integration of Jesuit Values in Graduate and Professional Education - The graduate schools will develop a comprehensive plan to promote and support the power of a Catholic and Jesuit education for all Fairfield students. Using data-driven strategies, enhance the quality and define and market what distinguishes Fairfield from other regional competitors.
Judy Dobai *
Susan Franzosa
Edna Wilson
Donald Gibson
Jeanne Lange
Richard Ryscavage, S.J.
Norm Solomon
David Zera
Barbara Kiernan
Sue Peterson
Susan LaFrance
Cathy O'Donnell
Jerry Sergent
Marianne Gumpper
Michael Tortora
Walter Conlan, S.J.
Orin Grossman
Timothy Snyder
Vagos Hadjimichael
Jeanne Novotny
Mary Nelson - Graduate Student
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