Another area where the College has witnessed considerable productivity and achievement is in the area of institutional effectiveness. For example, over the past five years we have:

• Piloted our first attempt at a new budget development and planning model (September of 2007)
• Formally established our Core Indicators of Institutional Effectiveness (May of 2008)
• To meet the new NWCCU standards, we adopted our four Core Themes (May of 2008)
• Institutionalized an integrated model of planning, budget, and assessment of institutional effectiveness
  (September of 2008)
• Published the first Great Falls College MSU Performance Report Card (April of 2010)
• Hired the College’s first Executive Director of Institutional Research and Planning (January of 2011)
• Created the Office of Institutional Research and Planning (January of 2011)
• Implemented an innovative new Academic Program Review protocol (June of 2011)