Baker College

About

Mission

The Baker College is committed to the mission of providing quality education and training programs which are likely to enable the graduates to become successful throughout their careers.

Guiding Principles

Following are the important guiding principles of Baker College.

Highly Effective Programs and Delivery Systems
Baker College offers reasonably effective educational programs which lead to career and employment enhancements of its students. These programs are career-focused, market-driven and accessible.
 
Right to try
The Baker College shows a belief in ‘Right to Try’ principle. According to this principle, the college believes that every person who has attained high school diploma or equivalent possesses a potential and has a right to get access to quality higher education.
 
Disciplined Fiscal Management
In order to achieve the long term goals of an organization, prudent fiscal management practices must be observed. Baker College exerts a strong focus on the disciplined financial management and it adopts successful business practices for it.
 
Customer Focus
Baker College fosters such an environment in which a strong customer-focused approach is adopted in all the functions. Due to this environment all the internal and external customers of Baker College feel valued.
 
Willingness to Change and Adapt
Baker College shows agility in changing and adapting to external and internal conditions. The College believes that its willingness to adapt and change is important for the prosperity of the organization and for other stake-holders including student, faculty and staff members.
 
Strong Image
The college portrays its high quality educational and training programs to public through marketing, consistent branding, pristine appearance and employee professionalism.
 
Accountable for Mission, Stated Values, and Public Trust
The Baker College shows and accepts full accountability for its mission, stated values and public trust.
 
High Work Ethic of Employees
The employees of Baker College possess high work ethics. They show a reasonable commitment to the mission of college and they bear high standards of personal accountability.
 
Family and Team Atmosphere
The Baker College considers the people related to it as the assets of institution. So, the college promotes team oriented and familial environment.
 
Community Orientation
The Baker College considers the community as a source of students and employers of its graduates. The Baker College strives to reflect social values in its corporate citizenship models.


History of Baker College
Muskegon College founded in 1888 and Baker Business University founded in 1915 merged together in 1965 under a common management when Robert Jewell representing a group of businessmen, purchased the Baker University.
 
The institution flourished and it is now known as the Baker College System. With a huge number of students it is regarded as largest independent college in Michigan. The enrollment surpassed 45000 students in 2009 - fall.  Its main mission was maintained throughout the past years.

Effective Teaching and Learning

In order to support quality teaching and learning, the Effective Teaching and Learning initiative of Baker College holds on to the mission of equipping academic and faculty leaders with respective knowledge and skills.

The Baker College strives to support the research based quality teaching and learning.

Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP)

Baker College pays regard to the Academic Quality improvements. The College has worked to enhance its academic offerings and other support programs.

The college bears the honor of having association with Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) through Higher learning commission.

Baker College technology

In order to cater with the changing environment and needs, technology must be given reasonable importance. Baker College pays a due regard to technology initiatives. Following are some of the features of technology initiatives taken by Baker College.
 
Computer Resources
The Baker College bears the honor of having about 7000 PCs and multiple workstations. The workstations are connected to Wide Area Network of Baker College.
The estimated expense of new hardware and software tools exceeds about $7 million a year. This huge expense is done by the College in order to keep the computer systems and workstations updated.
 
Many programs offered at Baker College are available over the internet. These programs can be accessed from any computer having an internet connection. Thousands of Baker college students attend their classes through the online systems managed by the College.
 
Faculty Resources
PCs are provided to the Full-time faculty members in their offices. Through these computer systems, faculty members can get access to Web browsers, Emails and Microsoft office suite. Access to specialized software applications is also provided to the faculty members according to the requirements of courses taught by them.
 
Student resources
PCs are also provided to the students in the classrooms. On average about 24 PCs per classroom are provided to the students.
 
Specialized workstations and computerized equipment are available in the laboratories where networking, graphics, engineering, medical programs and electronics are taught.
 
In order to support out of classroom research needs and access, PCs are made available to students in campus libraries and learning resource centers.
 

Campus safety

The Baker College takes many initiatives in order to enhance the campus safety. The campus safety office of Baker College shows a commitment to well-being and safety of all the students, staff members, faculty members and employees. It holds on to the mission of protecting, preserving and defending people and property so that the dignity and rights of all persons could be respected.
 
Following are the annual crime statistics of Baker College-Allen Park Campus. These statistics can be deemed as giving information about the safety initiatives of Baker College on the whole.