2013-2018 Strategic Plan-Archived

STUDENT LEARNING & SUCCESS

• Utilize research to assess and develop curriculum to meet the needs of students, employers, the community, and transfer institutions.
• Focus, align and integrate organizational efforts to create learning-centered environments that offer all students an opportunity to succeed.
• Develop pathways that support the timely completion of degrees for all students.
• Provide innovative developmental education and college readiness programs that work to close achievement gaps and address structural inequities that impede student success.
• Implement comprehensive research-based strategies to increase student retention.

TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVES

• Commit the funds to maintain user-centered, state-of-the-art technology and staffing support that enhances student learning, supports faculty/staff productivity, maximizes student success, and ensures organizational effectiveness.
• Establish systematic processes and practices to maintain data integrity.
• Promote a culture of data security awareness across all areas of the organization to support student privacy and limit college liability.

SYSTEMS IMPROVEMENT

• Enhance and align continuous process and systems improvement to respond quickly to changes in the internal and external environment.
• Expand and integrate the use of quality improvement processes within and across divisions and departments.
• Establish measurements and benchmarks to systematically advance organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Ensure that MCC programs and services are directly related to the current and emerging labor market needs of our region.
• Continue to partner with local, regional and state entities to ensure that our students are prepared to meet the needs of the workplace.
• Participate in coordinated leadership with local, state, and regional efforts to attract and retain jobs.
• Monitor global markets for emerging fields of study that will bring new opportunities to our students, the community, and the region.

HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT

• Promote a culture that fosters collegiality, creates a sense of community among faculty and staff, and furthers employee responsibility for outcomes.
• Maintain rigorous selection and performance standards for faculty and staff.
• Provide comprehensive professional development opportunities that improve teaching and learning, develop leadership, and strengthen employee skills.

INSTITUTIONAL IMAGE & COMMUNITY RELATIONS

• Maintain a leadership role in the community by engaging community partners to better meet area educational needs.
• Continue to provide a safe learning and working environment.
• Emphasize the diversity, quality, and affordability of the college’s programs and services through marketing.
• Promote and share best practices in education at the local, state, and national levels.

BUDGET/FINANCE

• Focus on controllable revenues and costs to sustain our current reputation and facilities and provide funding for strategic priorities.
• Maintain short and long term budget and finance priorities that provide a balanced approach to the needs of a learning organization with the flexibility to realign resources.
• Continually review the comprehensive strategy that addresses the long term deficit which enables us to provide affordable high quality education.
• Continue to provide relevant and accurate financial information to college stakeholders in a timely manner in order to facilitate effective decision making, maximizing student success.
• Seek and cultivate alternative resources to supplement and/or increase existing revenue streams and funding sources.