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. Aggressively pursue alternative funding sources to augment traditional 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, leverage the college's technical resources, and improve customer service.
4. Sound Environmental Practices. Reduce college costs and implement practices that model environmental responsibility.
5. Sound Business Practices. Implement practices that promote fiscal responsibility and accountability.
6. Risk Management Practices. Reduce college costs by continuous review and revision of regular monitoring and evaluation of activities, processes and practices in order to reduce or remove potential liability of the college.
Strategic Goal 3 - Community Prominence
To increase the college's prominence in the region as a provider of educational services and 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 the 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.
4. TTC Enterprise Campus. Enhance the state's economic development by implementing the TTC Enterprise Campus Authority.
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 and procedures used by the college community to disseminate information and eliminate barriers to effective institutional communication.
6. Faculty and Staff Development. Provide a work environment that supports employees in personal development and education.