NSCC Board Approves Strategic Plan
Goal 1:
Life Changing Education
Create and maintain high quality, transformative, and safe educational environments that meet the needs of our current and future learners.
- Ensuring high quality learning experiences by creating opportunity and inspiring faculty to optimize the learner experience in the classroom and beyond the classroom.
- Ensuring transformative educational experiences by increasing both the opportunities and the rate of credential attainment, and reducing the average time that learners take to attain their credential.
- In response to pandemic efforts, plan and deploy digital strategies for rapid response to public health demands and student needs.
Goal 2:
Learning for All
Promote collaborative partnerships that serve our learners and provide an equitable opportunity to succeed.
- Align efforts across NSCC EMT and Success & Completion Committees and identify new recruitment and retention strategies.
- Identify segmented enrollment streams and set strategic enrollment goals.
- Employ Graduation Pathways to Success (GPS) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to monitor and assess enrollment progress of segmented enrollment streams.
- Deploy specific tactical teams to implement Enrollment Management strategies that reflect evidence-based best practices centered on access and equity.
- Develop three specific agreements / grants partnerships with civic, not-for-profit, and governmental partners to directly address Learners’ barriers to success such as childcare/eldercare insecurity, financial insecurity, food insecurity, healthcare insecurity, and transportation insecurity.
Goal 3:
Organizational Excellence
Improve NSCC’s institutional effectiveness to create a sustainable, stakeholder-focused and high-performing organization.
- Provide support to the teams working on the five other goals
- Submit NSCC’s decennial self-study (December, 2020) and successfully host an HLC site visit (February 2021).
- Identify three – five processes that can move to remote operations permanently.
- Identify and redesign three – five policies towards “learner-friendly.”
Goal 4:
Empowered Team
Cultivate and sustain a positive culture that empowers team members to fulfill our mission.
- Create and deploy college events that reinforce and improve the current positive culture.
- In response to pandemic efforts, develop digital tools to connect team members.
- Encourage team care and self-care part of the regular team regiment.
- Successfully complete faculty negotiations for a renewed labor agreement.
- . Emphasize the role of professional development with Cabinet member individualized plans and a second year of the President’s Leadership Team curriculum.
Goal 5:
Engaged Community
Create intentional communications and interactions between the College and its stakeholders to strengthen our community relationships
- NSCC Marketing Theme: “Your community’s college” Increase our overall marketing footprint in the service area.
- Foster, facilitate and manage community involvement within each county. Strengthen alumni participation and scholarship giving.
- Develop specific campaigns to support the College’s enrollment management and partnership plans.