Strategic Direction I: Student Success
Supporting themes include academic opportunities, employee recruitment/retention, and student resources.
- Academic opportunities – expansion of academic programs, course offerings – schedule and modality, ensuring transfer of courses/degrees
- Employee recruitment/retention – salary, benefits, valuing employees
- Student resources – housing, technology, cafeteria, academic support, mental health support, improved social media, additional sports (soccer), additional student clubs and organizations.
Strategic Direction II: Institutional Advancement
Supporting themes include moving forward, affordability, facilities, funding, and technology.
- Moving forward – improved technology, expanded partnerships – unified school districts, other higher education institutions, industry, communities
- Affordability – funding for the college, financial resources for students,
- Facilities – renovate/update buildings on campus, student housing
- Funding – external (state and national), foundations (gifts and grants), and local (tax, fundraising)
- Technology – all area
Strategic Direction III: Communication
Supporting themes include internal communication, marketing, public relations, social media.
- Internal communication – improving communication between and among all departments on campus.
- Marketing – external communication and advertising
- Public Relations – increasing methods of communication to campus and the community, telling our story, increasing use of social media, expand platforms used for social media, increased number of press releases for program promotion – relational aspects of communication
- Social media – increasing social media presence, use of QR codes, expand platforms
Strategic Direction IV: Community
Supporting themes include social and societal issues.
- Societal issues - violence in community, politics, economy
- Community involvement
- Community engagement