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Keri,
I am glad that you took time to review the organizational chart. It really does bring everything together in a picture sense.
Patty Aronoff
This is a tough one. The chart starts with me and pretty much ends with me. Not a lot of room to delegate.
Much like the other representatives, our school is centered around the student. All department heads and support staff hold a function within the organization to support the student from their first phone call to placement. There weren't many surprises when reviewing our organizational chart. There are some that we may not interact every day with in Admissions, but we know how vital they are to the overall success of each and every enrollment, student, graduate and the overall operation of the institution. Even facilities management serves its vital role in making the campuses a better place.
Emily,
We do need to know how we are structured and where major responsibilities lie.
Patty Aronoff
David ,
It takes ev3ryone on the organizational chart to grow a graduate. We are their educational family.
Patty Aronoff
Phillip,
Librarians or Learning Resource Center Coordinators usually report to the Director of Education.
Patty Aronoff
The organizational structure at our institution is very sound. We have gone through some major changes over the last few years but have now found a working structure. Knowing and understanding positions and hierarchy is integral in our organization. It is very cool to see the positive change of flow as structure have been more clearly defined.
In reviewing the organizational structure of the school, it is important to see how all departments to work together to make the student experience successful as well as for the institution. Seeing that students complete their program successfully is top priority.
I compared our structure with that available in the course as an example and found it to be nearly identical...our only exception was the librarian reported to the Director of Education...(there was no librarian listed on the example).
Michael,
Interesting! It goes to show when we look at things from a different angle, new ideas emerge.
Patty Aronoff
Joseph,
Exactly! The organizational chart is the representation of the school operation.
Patty Aronoff
Kathy,
We should always put the student first. If we do not have students, we do not have a school.
Patty Aronoff
Jay,
At any school, the lines may cross. We all take part in graduating a student.
Patty Aronoff
I work at a small niche vocational school. We have an organizational chart, but we can often cross the chart lines to ask for help from any department. Everyone is involved with the success of our students!
I love that your students are at the top of the chart! That is really showing your student-first philosophy. Great job, Becky!
We discovered that we had too many people reporting to a particular supervisor. We in the field of Fire/EMS rely heavily on the Incident Command System that states that a span of control is between 3-7 with 5 being the optimal amount of people to which one can effectively supervise. Once we took a look at our Org chart, changes were made to better relfect an organizational control.
I found no surprises. In an organizational structure there should be clear accountability, responsibilities, and task management. With clear job roles and accountability, everyone on the organization should be clearly aware of who does what and in what time frame with the needed metrics.
Our organization puts the students first and does every thing in our power to make sure they are successful students and succeed. We work as a team to maintain successful outcomes. Every one has a role in the contribution of maintaining organizational structure.
Susan,
Awesome! Organizational charts put it all in a visual perspective.
Patty Aronoff