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ACCSCT’s mission is to serve as a reliable authority on educational quality and to promote enhanced opportunities for students by establishing, sustaining, and enforcing valid standards and practices which contribute to the development of a highly trained and competitive workforce through quality career oriented education.
ACCSCT stimulates, nurtures, verifies, and recognizes ongoing educational quality and integrity in institutions offering programs of a vocational and career-oriented nature. ACCSCT’s mission has two primary objectives:
- to assure students and the general public of the quality of educational training provided by ACCSCT-accredited institutions and their programs; and
- to assist institutions in continuously improving themselves and the training they provide students.
As a way for the Commission to continually meet its mission in a committed fashion, ACCSCT has established a values-based framework supported by the following foundational core values: Integrity, Accountability, Continuous Improvement, Open Communication and Teamwork.
The Commission, its professional staff, and its corps of volunteers were all instrumental in developing these core values as a way to convey how we strive to go about our work. ACCSCT uses the following definitions to give a deeper expression of its core values.
Integrity - Accomplishing our mission with a commitment to ethics, honesty, trust, consistency, and fairness.
Accountability - Fulfilling our responsibilities to one another, the higher education community, and the public.
Continuous Improvement - Cultivating personal and professional growth through learning, goal setting, innovation, commitment and participation.
Open Communication - Fostering a free and timely exchange of ideas and information in a collegial environment.
Teamwork - Creating strong partnerships while recognizing individual strengths and emphasizing respect and mutual support.
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