Mission
The Doña Ana Community College English Department promotes academic and workplace literacy through quality instruction. We strive to connect students to foundational knowledge of rhetorical and multimodal strategies, critical thinking, and audience-centered communication. We embrace diversity and advocate for students through mentoring and by creating learning environments that engage and retain students.
About Our Department
Goals
- Address specific needs of a diverse populace to ensure success
- Foster learning opportunities for ELL/ESL students
- Increase students’ academic persistence
- Promote multiple forms of literacy including verbal, visual, and technological
- Involve students in meaningful activities and decision processes
- Support development and expertise of faculty and staff via professional workshops & conferences
- Request adequate instructional resources and cutting edge technology
- Improve full-time to part-time faculty ratio
- Create an atmosphere of mentorship between colleagues as well as students
- Build partnerships within our college and the larger community
- Advocate for additional resources that assist in fulfilling our mission
- Prepare students for transfer to a four-year institution
Values
- Quality, integrity, and diversity
- Multiple points of view
- Student engagement
- Critical thinking
- Student success
- Mutual respect
- Student empowerment
- Informed, evidence-based pedagogy
- Reflective practice
- Real-life application
- Teamwork and collegiality