Colorado Mountain College Values

T2R2: TRUTH • TRUST • RESPECT • RESPONSIVENESS

T2R2 Actualized
Actualized defined as “to make something real or actual, to make something come about. Expectations actualized by deeds.” (Encarta Dictionary - online)

TRUTH
By revealing, understanding, and blending diverse personal perceptions, biases, and “truths,” as well as providing accurate and fact-based information at the start of a decision, vote, or discussion, we come closer to an inclusive Truth, thus resulting in the best course of action.

Evidenced by

• Providing accurate and fact-based information versus guessing at the truth and having an adverse impact on sound decision making.

• Understanding others’ experiences and background, as well as our own, bias perceptions or understandings of the truth.

• Acknowledging internally that each of us can be wholly attached to our own perception of a situation (the Truth in our mind) and thus, may be closing ourselves off to "hearing" another viewpoint or perception of the truth.

TRUST
Trusting that others are relaying the truth as they see it and are working in the best interests of the College and the students we serve by ensuring decisions and actions are guided by a commitment to student and personal success, accountability, maintaining confidentiality, keeping promises, and a commitment to life-long learning.

Evidenced by

• Ensuring decisions and actions are guided by a profound commitment and sense of accountability to the public interest and to each other.

• Ensuring decisions and actions are guided by a profound commitment to the provision of lifelong learning enrichment to our community and to ourselves.Ensuring decisions and actions are guided by a profound commitment to the success of all.

RESPECT
Valuing and acknowledging individual differences, opinions, and contributions by communicating openly, honestly, and directly and treating each other fairly and consistently.

Evidenced by

• Valuing and acknowledging individuals, listening to them, and accepting their individuality.

• Seeking to understand feelings, beliefs, values and needs; taking these seriously and giving them genuine consideration.

• Accepting differences of opinion with graciousness.

• Listening actively and attentively while others are speaking.

• Acknowledging and giving credit for contributions of others.

RESPONSIVENESS
Being able and ready to respond, at all times, in support of our communities by remaining readily accessible, timely, solution-seeking, well-informed, accountable to our values and norms, encouraging, and responsible for our own actions.

Evidenced by

• Awareness that, as public servants, we have the obligation to be individuals of good character, prepared at all times to be good stewards of the public trust.

• Passionately endeavoring to deserve the great support our communities give.

• Bringing our best every day.

• Keeping ourselves readily accessible to students, colleagues, and our community.

• Being timely in responding to or acknowledging the needs and requests of others.

• Endeavoring to keep each other well-informed so accurate responsiveness is possible

• Courageously holding each other accountable to our values and norms.

• Accepting responsibility for the outcomes of our own actions and apologizing for our behavior when we need to.