Strategic Goal 1- Accessibility

To enable all members of the community we serve to pursue or continue higher education.

1. Flexible Student Scheduling. Maximize student access to the existing college curriculum by continuing to increase flexible course offerings and alternative delivery formats.

2. Diversity. Prepare the college community to embrace an increasingly diverse student population, including students for whom English is a second language.

3. Student Preparation. Develop and expand programs and collaborations that increase the accessibility of higher education and increase the success of underprepared students.

4. Capital Improvements. Support the college’s curriculum and continuing education programs through the expansion and refurbishment of physical facilities and the provision of an up-to-date infrastructure.

Strategic Goal 2 - Stewardship

To become a model of fiscal, community and environmental responsibility, promoting these concepts at every level of the institution.

1. Alternative Funding. Decrease the college’s reliance on traditional funding sources by continuing to seek alternative funding sources.

2. Decision Making. Improve the college’s assessment and evaluation processes.

3. Organizational Efficiency. Reduce college costs by strengthening work practices that increase employee productivity and improve customer service.

4. Use of Technology. Re-engineer work processes to improve employee productivity using the college’s current technical resources.

Strategic Goal 3 - Community Prominence

To increase the college’s prominence in the region as a provider of educational services and a promoter of economic development.

1. Image. Enhance awareness of the College’s significant contributions to education and training and to economic development in the region.

2. Collaboration. Emphasize collaboration between the college and local, national and international communities.

3. Curriculum. Identify, develop and/or revise academic and continuing education programs as needed to promote the economic development of the area.

Strategic Goal 4 - Engagement

To build a community of learners in which all students, faculty, staff and administrators are active participants in and adherents to the principles of lifelong learning.

1. Student Development. Develop and offer programs and services to students that present opportunities for their intellectual and interpersonal skills development.

2. Campus Environment. Build a sense of campus community and improve campus morale.

3. Faculty/Staff Diversity. Recruit, employ and retain a faculty and staff that is representative of the ethnic diversity of the college’s service area.

4. Student Retention. Improve student progress toward completion of academic programs by increasing the percentage of students who maintain continuous enrollment.

5. Improved Communication. Improve the methods used by the college community to disseminate information and eliminate barriers to effective institutional communication.

6. Faculty Development. Develop a faculty skilled in all instructional methods appropriate to their disciplines, including competence in developing on-line instruction.

7. Employee Development.  Provide a work environment that supports employees in personal development and education.