AQIP Category Nine  —  Building Collaborative Relationships

AQIP Category Nine, Building Collaborative Relationships, examines your organization’s relationships – current and potential – to analyze how they contribute to the organization’s accomplishing its mission.

Processes (P)

9P1.  How do you create, prioritize, and build relationships with the educational organizations and other organizations from which you receive your students? [9P1]

9P2.  How do you create, prioritize, and build relationships with the educational organizations and employers that depend on the supply of your students and graduates that meet those organizations’ requirements? [9P1]

9P3.  How do you create, prioritize, and build relationships with the organizations that provide services to your students? [9P1]

9P4.  How do you create, prioritize, and build relationships with the education associations, external agencies, consortia partners, and the general community with whom you interact? [9P1]

9P5.  How do you ensure the varying needs of those involved in your partnership relationships are being met? [9P2]

9P6.  How do you create and build relationships between and among departments and units within your organization? How do you assure integration and communication across these relationships? [9P3]

Results (R)

9R1.  What measures of building collaborative relationships, external and internal, do you collect and analyze regularly? [9P4]

9R2.  What are your performance results in building your key collaborative relationships, external and internal? [9R1]

9R3.  How do your results for the performance of your processes for Building Collaborative Relationships compare with the performance results of other higher education organizations and, if appropriate, of organizations outside of higher education? [9R2]

Improvement (I)

9I1.    What recent improvements have you made in this category? How systematic and comprehensive are your processes and performance results for Building Collaborative Relationships?

9I2.    How do your culture and infrastructure help you to select specific processes to improve and to set targets for improved performance results in Building Collaborative Relationships?