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Adopt Strategic Change and Continuous Quality Improvement Systems
- Embrace mission-based outcomes assessment, planning, and budgeting
- Maintain high morale through effective communication and employee involvement
- Support and promote shared campus governance and open and timely decision making
- Utilize self-studies, both with or without certification or accreditation linkages (Middle States and others), to bring about needed changes
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Promote Teaching Excellence and Maintain a Responsive and Dynamic Curricula
- Expect and maintain student-centered teaching excellence
- Maintain effective and efficient instructional delivery systems, including distance learning and workplace learning models
- Develop new curricula as needed and phase out outdated or undersubscribed courses, services, and programs based on community and student needs
- Develop and maintain student and faculty learning support services (for example: library, instructional technology, tutorial services) that contribute significantly to faculty and student success
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Maintain Proactive Enrollment Management, Student Support Services, and Marketing Strategies
- Develop and maintain strategies to increase student enrollments and the diversity of student populations served
- Increase the retention of students who have not completed their educational goals
- Establish marketing and retention plans to maintain student enrollments in all of the College’s traditional service areas
- Serve a diverse array of students in all our mission based areas, providing special services to reach out to underserved populations.
- Develop and maintain co-curricular and extra-curricular activities that enhance student development and success
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Align Facilities Development and Management with Mission Based Priorities
- Plan space improvements to promote student, faculty, and staff success
- Align facility planning and management to directly support strategic directions, especially instructional and enrollment develop plans
- Study and maintain a master campus plan that addresses both short term and long term college facility needs and the related funding
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Increase Technology Applications in a Cost-Effective Manner
- Expand the College’s Internet capabilities and Web presence
- Enhance technology infrastructure in support of future growth
- Equip instructional spaces and offices with the necessary technology to assure faculty, student, and staff success
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Improve Human Resources Development Systems
- Improve recruitment, selection, and orientation processes aimed at securing and maintaining a diverse and competent faculty and staff
- Maintain employee development and evaluation systems which are supportive of the College’s mission, vision, and strategic directions
- Establish and maintain externally competitive and internally equitable salary and benefit packages for all employee groups
- Support quality improvements by providing the training needed by people to do things differently and to feel competent in a dynamic work environment
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Enhance Resource Development, Allocation, and Reallocation Strategies
- Make efficient and effective use of available funds and resources
- Make resource reallocations as needed
- Establish strategies and plans to enhance revenues from both traditional (state and county aid, tuition and fees, Foundation and Alumni Association contributions, grants, et cetera.) and non-traditional sources (consider innovative revenue enhancement strategies, including developing revenue centers and establishing revenue enhancement partnerships)
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Expand Community Services and Strategic Partnerships and Alliances
- Collaborate with business and community leaders and organizations in shaping the College’s future
- Expand strategic partnerships and alliances in fulfilling the mission
- Cooperate with other educational and community organizations in seeking educational solutions to local economic and social problems.
- Maintain the College’s role as the hub of intellectual, social, and cultural development in its service area.
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