2021-2025年战略计划
Visioning Team Develops College's New 战略计划ning Objectives
介绍
澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 is embarking on its fifth five-year plan as a national leader institution that joins other progressive institutions of higher learning in redefining the role of the community college in America. Its success agenda for the past two decades—Start Early, Start Right, Finish, Succeed— remains unchanged. 发生了什么变化呢 周围的世界. As the pace of change has accelerated, 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 has positioned itself as a leader in effective and orchestrated response to innovation and disruption.
Embracing the principles of the national Guided Pathways movement, and curricular and administrative pathways marked by simplicity, clarity, intentionality, and alignment, 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 is intent on making student and community success, to the degree possible, 默认路径. Moreover, in a world that needs a source of caring and light, the College remains focused on improving the lives of its students, employees, and 社区利益相关者.
To this end, the college introduces the Four A’s of a Future Community to frame 澳门威尼斯人APP下载 State’s leadership role for the next five years. 的 four critical areas of focus in this plan are: ALIGNMENT, ACCELERATION, ACQUISITION, AND ACHIEVEMENT.
的 accomplishments of 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 have been exceptional, including being named a three-time Aspen semi-finalist, an award given annually to the most outstanding community college in the nation, and being one of a select number of Leader Colleges in the seminal Achieving the Dream program. Achieving the Dream was started by the Lumina Foundation and other organizations to enable more students to achieve the dream of realizing their own personal and professional potential, a step that often begins at the door of a community college. In 2015, the College was one of thirty chosen to lead the national Guided Pathways movement using a conceptual framework proposed by the American Association of Community Colleges.
澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 is beginning its new five-year plan with a sense of renewal and hope despite the unprecedented challenges of 2020, from a local cyberattack to the national tides of political and social strife and a global pandemic. 学院的愿景是 not one of limits, but instead one of learning without boundaries, and partnerships that can truly transform the College, the community, and the world.
我们的使命
的 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 Community College mission statement serves as a beacon for guiding 其项目和服务:
澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 Community College is committed to learning that transforms lives and 社区.
In support of our mission, 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 Community College is committed to student success through a student centered, innovative, engaging, and supportive learning environment; teaching excellence; respect for uniqueness and diversity; strategic partnerships that advance community, workforce and economic development; cultural enrichment of our 社区; and accountability and integrity.
我们的愿景
澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态 will facilitate learning without boundaries, will be committed to every student’s success, will exemplify the spirit of perpetual improvement, and will promote an overarching sense of community.
我们的流程
2020年4月. Vicki Karolewics, the 总统 of 澳门威尼斯人APP下载状态, commissioned a planning task force to review the previous five-year plan and establish a new five-year plan reflective of the College’s shift to a new model that provides quick and intentional response to sudden, transformational change. 的 Task Force was comprised of approximately fifty representatives of various campus and community constituencies.
的 Task Force met virtually at a planning summit on June 24, 2020. 峰会开始了 with remarks from the 总统 and the College Dean, who served as moderators. 的 participants, divided into working groups, analyzed the College’s positioning in regard to strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and submitted summaries to the 总统.
Parallel to these efforts was a call for statewide strategic planning under the auspices of a new program, ASPIRE (Achieving Systemwide Potential through Increased Resources and Engagement), led by the Chancellor of the Alabama Community College System. 澳门威尼斯人APP下载 State actively participated in this initiative as well, hosting more than fifteen meetings with legislators, government officials, business and industry leaders, educational partners, economic development agencies, nonprofit leaders, and others.
This five-year plan reflects a confluence of these efforts.