CATALOG & HANDBOOK 2019-2020 ACCREDITATION MISSOURI VALLEY COLLEGE IS ACCREDITED BY THE HIGHER LEARNING COMMISSION (hlcommission.org) a regional accreditation agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. 230 SOUTH LASALLE STREET, SUITE 7-500 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60604 TELEPHONE: 800-621-7440 Education programs are accredited by: ● The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education The Nursing program is accredited by: ● The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education The Nursing program is licensed by: ● The Missouri State Board of Nursing The Missouri Department of Higher Education serves as a clearinghouse for postsecondary student complaints. The MDHE complaint policy may be found at: https://dhe.mo.gov/documents/POLICYONCOMPLAINTRESOLUTION-reviseddraft.pdf This webpage contains information about the complaint process and includes instructions for how to file a formal complaint. Note that the policy provides that a student who wishes to file a complaint with the department must first exhaust all formal and informal avenues provided by the institution to resolve disputes. As updates to this catalog are made, they will be posted on the Missouri Valley College website catalog. Dear Missouri Valley College Students, On behalf of the faculty, staff, and board of trustees, I want to welcome you to Missouri Valley College. I am Dr. Bonnie Humphrey, the 13th president of this College and the first woman president. I have spent the last 40 years of my life working with students of all ages in educational settings. Missouri Valley is a great place to gain an excellent education while making lifelong friends. You will find that Valley is a very close-knit institution. Missouri Valley graduates have consistently ranked MVC’s “family atmosphere” as one of its greatest strengths. Our professors are genuinely interested in your success. MVC is focused on providing students from all backgrounds a great opportunity for an excellent education. The truth about a college education is that we can only offer you the coursework, the professionals, and the atmosphere for a successful college experience. The rest is up to you! You must take advantage of what we have to offer. We have counselors, ministers, and medical personnel on staff. We have faculty that have studied around the world—all here to help you be successful. Our Student Affairs Office ensures that there are activities and organizations that will allow you to get involved. We have a staff that love Missouri Valley College and its students! All of this is here for you! We have a wonderful Learning Center where free tutors are available to help you prepare for tests in all areas of academic study. The Student Success Center was developed to ensure that all MVC students are successful. The counselors in the Student Success Center are dedicated to helping keep you on track academically. There are lots of wonderful people on this campus. All of them are dedicated to your success. If you take good care of Valley—Missouri Valley will take good care of you! Welcome and have a great year! Valley Will Roll! Sincerely, Bonnie L. Humphrey, Ph.D President MISSION GOALS Guiding students to succeed through personal ● Recruit and retain a strong and diverse graduate faculty instruction and intellectual inquiry. ● Recruit and retain a strong and diverse graduate student population ● Provide adequate library resources VISION ● Foster an interactive and collaborative relationship with Known for its dynamic, richly diverse, and friendly educational the community environment, Missouri Valley College offers many opportunities to ● Broaden offering times for the convenience of working grow in mind, body, and spirit. Faculty are personally and and nontraditional students professionally engaged in preparing thoughtful citizens for ● Review on a continuous basis learning outcomes, meaningful lives and careers. Grounded in the liberal arts, instructional quality, and administrative processes undergraduate and graduate studies empower students to master ● Develop new graduate programs according to need interdisciplinary skills needed to succeed in a knowledge-based global society. Stewardship of resources will sustain innovative Graduate Studies at Missouri Valley College have been formulated teaching to stimulate critical thinking, creativity, aesthetic to promote the development of the student within the mission and appreciation, and the joys of lifelong learning. goals of the College. Educational policy is intended to ensure the academic growth of the student within a framework of social, VALUES physical, and spiritual growth. Because of the need for consistency ● Compassion and uniformity of application, all exceptions must be approved by ● Diversity the Dean of Graduate Studies. ● Social responsibility ● Integrity ● Accountability ABOUT THE CATALOG & GOALS HANDBOOK ● Nurture a campus culture to embrace all individuals with This Missouri Valley College Catalog & Student Handbook is the compassion, civility, and respect College’s official notification of its policies, rules, regulations, and ● Gather a demographically diverse student body standards of conduct. The student is responsible for knowledge of embracing differences in ethnicity, gender, culture, these policies, rules, regulations, and standards of conduct; economic status, and regional and national origin enrollment is considered acceptance of all conditions specified in ● Extend access to higher education to students from all this document. However, the provisions of this document do not educational backgrounds with support to achieve constitute a contract between any student and Missouri Valley success College. The College reserves the right to change any of the ● Ensure high academic standards in all baccalaureate, policies, rules, regulations, and the standards of conduct at any graduate, and professional programs time as may be necessary in the interest of the College. The ● Recruit and retain a dedicated, diverse staff and faculty, College also reserves the right to modify or discontinue any of the well-educated and current in their fields services, programs or activities described in this document. If a ● Focus curricula on developing interdisciplinary, material revision to a policy, rule, regulation, or standard of analytical and communicative skills, historical and conduct is made and becomes effective during the academic year, cultural awareness, and critical and creative thinking students will be notified of such and will be expected to abide by ● Maintain a safe, healthy campus environment conducive the updated terms. Graduate students are responsible for to learning and research based on academic freedom, reviewing their program handbook and ensuring they comply with innovative teaching, and intellectual inquiry the program’s requirements. ● Expand opportunities for applying academic learning in real-world settings and study abroad The policies contained within this document will govern in ● Support extracurricular activities to develop teamwork situations where an outdated or otherwise inconsistent policy and leadership in arts, academics, and athletics covering the same subject matter is in circulation. ● Promote civic engagement through service to the community, special programming for the common good, continuing education for career development, and NON-DISCRIMINATION POLICY facilities for public gatherings Missouri Valley College is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The College complies with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and other GRADUATE STUDIES legislation that prohibits discrimination in employment and access to educational programs because of race, sex, age, or physical MISSION handicap. The mission of Graduate Studies at Missouri Valley College is to Missouri Valley College is committed to a policy of non- provide educational opportunities for advanced study at the discrimination. The College is dedicated to providing a positive, master’s degree level to prepare students for professional careers discrimination-free educational and work environment. Any kind of and lifelong learning. Graduate Studies promotes excellence in discrimination, harassment or intimidation (i.e., race, age, sex, instruction, research, and public service to enhance the creed, ethnic origin or disability) is unacceptable conduct and will intellectual, professional, and personal growth of students, faculty, not be tolerated. For the purpose of this policy, discrimination, and the community. 2 harassment, and intimidation are defined as any attempt on the the following: part of individuals, groups, and recognized campus organizations ○ TOEFL OF 68 to deny any individual or group those rights, freedoms, or ○ IELTS OF 6.5 opportunities available to all members of the College community. ○ EIKEN of Grade 1 ○ Other Test of English as a Second Language Inquiries concerning the application of Missouri Valley College's graded in accordance to the Common policy of non-discrimination should be directed to the President, European Framework of Reference for whose office is located in Baity Hall. Languages with a minimum level of C1. When applicant meets all of the admissions and financial ADMISSION requirements they may be issued an I-20 form as a degree seeking student. APPLICATION PROCEDURES Applications for admission to Missouri Valley College are reviewed LIFE @ MVC - PATHWAY PROGRAM - NEW individually. The College desires to select freshmen and transfer FRESHMEN students who will benefit