North Dakota Center for Distance Education - NDCDE

ND CDE Values:

Student learning – CDE strives at all times to understand current and future student learning needs and respond to them.

Leadership – CDE believes that teaching provides a key component to all types and
methods of leadership.

Involvement of people – CDE believes that the full involvement of all people enables their individual and collective abilities to be used for the organization's benefit.

Processes – CDE applies the process-based approach because a desired result can be achieved efficiently and effectively using the process approach.

Connections – CDE is convinced the highest level of effectiveness and efficiency is achieved by identifying, understanding, and managing the connections between processes.

Continual improvement – Every member of CDE is responsible for continually improving CDE's products, services, processes, and system.

Factual approach to decision-making – CDE knows that effective decisions are based on analysis of data and information, not conjecture.

Mutually beneficial supplier relationships – CDE firmly believes it and its suppliers are interdependent; a mutually beneficial relationship enhances the ability of both to add value.