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Glen Oaks Strategic Plan: "Vision 2010"

Glen Oaks Community Collegen Five-Year Capital Outlay Plan 2011-2016

Glen Oaks Community College, as a part of the Academic Quality Improvement Project (AQIP) and from the Draft of the Strategic Planning Committee, adopted a new Mission Statement, Vision Statement and six Core Strategies for the Years 2005-2010.

Vision Statement

Transforming Lives and Advancing Communities

Mission Statement

The mission of Glen Oaks Community College is to provide quality educational programs that meet the life-long learning needs of its students and the communities it serves. A dynamic and relevant curriculum, accompanied by effective support services, enables the college to serve as a catalyst for creating and strengthening linkages among students, community members, businesses, and educational institutions. The college will respond proactively to changing local needs and fulfill its role in the global economy through the effective use of instructional and emerging technologies.

Values

We support and celebrate successful learning within an educationally transformative process. We are committed to high expectations and systems to foster quality learning. We value the role of the college in helping our communities develop and prosper.
We value service provided by individuals and groups, working together for the common good of the college and our service area. We recognize our responsibility to the communities we serve and look for opportunities to connect our programs and services to community needs. We are committed to providing access to the college’s academic programs and services, fostering the vision that everyone can be a part of building our shared future.
We are committed to interacting in ways that demonstrate civility, caring, and respect. We develop our working and learning relationships based on mutual trust, recognizing that each individual has inherent worth and unique talents. We appreciate and value diversity of expression, collaboration and partnering, and finding ways we can communicate effectively across difference.
We value and encourage innovation. We promote the development of questions, ideas, and college activities that engage students, faculty and staff, area employers and communities in taking reasoned risk and pursuing new learning. We recognize that creative solutions require effective processes for support and implementation.
We are committed to the value and practice of integrity and public accountability. We recognize that each of us is accountable to the public and that we share a responsibility for expanding mutual trust and support. We pledge to act with personal integrity and to ensure a high degree of organizational transparency.
We are committed to diversity as an educational and social value. We understand that diversity requires caring, cultivation, and inclusive processes in order to build unity and insight from difference.

Six Core Strategies for 2005-2010

1. Community Connectedness Initiative

During the next five years, GOCC will enhance its communications and connectedness with communities in its service area, and a new model for career education in service to area businesses will be developed.

2. Learner Success Initiative

During the 2005-2010 period, GOCC will advance all aspects of the learner's journey through the college, focusing all college units on creating programs and services that respond to changing student learning needs and enhance student success.

3. Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative

GOCC will institutionalize principles of continuous quality improvement (CQI) for the operation of the college.

4. GOCC Technology Initiative

During the next five years, GOCC will significantly upgrade instructional equipment, electronic-based learning, communications, and information technologies.

5. Employee Communications and Development Initiative

During the next five years, GOCC will develop and implement a college-wide employee communications/development program.

6. Choosing and Implementing GOCC's Financial Future

During the next five years, the voters of the college's legal district will, with the college, determine its financial future.

Strategic Plan Goals

Glen Oaks Community College has adopted the following goals or initiatives within the Six Core Strategies to support its 5-Year Strategic Plan "Vision 2010":

Community Connectedness Initiative

To develop a Community Relations Plan
To develop a Diversity Plan
To develop a partnership model /plan with business/industry/K-12/government agencies
To develop a Marketing Plan

Learner Success Initiative

To develop a plan that enhances the success of current and future students from initial inquiry through completion of student goals.
To create a Faculty and Staff Development Plan that Supports learner success.
To develop academic program completion patterns for full time and part time learner.

Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative

Identify and flowchart the systems and processes of the College.
Develop and distribute a CQI Design (template).
Create two teams to advance the College’s personnel in the knowledge and practices of CQI: a CQI Visiting Team (In-house volunteers) and a CQI News Team.
Develop and implement an Employee CQI Training Plan.

Technology Initiative

To provide the technical framework (current use assessment, future use needs, software/hardware updates and training) to improve communication between all aspects of the college, representative of current business and industry standards, including internal and external stakeholders, through such things as web applications, student e-mail and telecommunication technologies by 2008.
To educate, develop and improve all members of the college community, internal (use of) and external (knowledge of), in the skills and knowledge necessary to access and make use of the college’s information resources by June 2008. Pre and post testing/surveying will be used to establish baselines and evaluate progress toward involving all stakeholders in skills and knowledge of information resources.
To assess learning/instructional technology needs, provide education/training to instructional technology users, and distribute instructional technology throughout educational environments.

Employee Communication and Development Initiative

To create and implement a comprehensive human resources plan by 12/31/07
To create and implement by 12/31/07 an effective college wide communication system

Financial Future Initiative

The college will develop and utilize an open and transparent budgeting process that includes an annual operational budget and a five year forecasted budget. Both the operational and longer term budgets will align resources with the college’s strategic goals.
The college will optimally utilize its resources including facilities, personnel, and finances.
The college will implement a development plan for the leadership team resulting in a combined effort from all departments of the college to develop new initiatives that generate additional revenue.
The college will implement short and long term facilities plans that include preventative and corrective maintenance, space utilization, and current and future physical plant requirements, in alignment with the college’s stated strategic goals.

Areas of First Focus

The following goals were identified as the first areas of focus

for the implementation of the Strategic Plan:

To develop a plan that enhances the success of current and future students from initial inquiry through completion of student goals
To provide the technical framework (current use assessment, future use needs, software/hardware updates and training) to improve communication between all aspects of the college, representative of current business and industry standards, including internal and external stakeholders, through such things as web applications, student e-mail and telecommunication technologies.
To create and implement an effective college wide communication system.
To create and implement a comprehensive human resources plan.

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