HCC Strategic Plan
HCC Strategic Plan
Priority 1
Student Success
Students are the center of the college. Their needs must be identified and met through new and improved programming and excellent customer service from entry to exit.
- Areas of Focus
- Create new programs at HCC with pathways to associate and bachelor degrees as well as direct entrance into the workplace.
- Develop new student services not currently provided.
- Communicate with students through a variety of channels.
- Create multiple pathways to enter, progress through, and go beyond HCC.
- Enhance credit programs with new credit courses.
- Establish a retention office staffed with retention specialists.
- Develop/expand/connect to existing programs/partnerships.
Priority 2
Educational Excellence
Housatonic Community College's institutional excellence depends on adhering to rigorous standards and continually assessing best practices in all areas of the college.
- Areas of Focus
- Develop college wide initiatives to address student preparedness.
- Develop services to meet academic, career, and personal needs of students.
- Create educational excellence throughout the campus.
- Provide opportunities for faculty/staff to further develop levels of excellence while being mindful of the need for balance between work and release time.
- Improve and maintain facilities to support educational excellence.
Priority 3
Enrollment
Streamline enrollment by simplifying the process, alleviating student confusion and anxiety; highlight HCC as a welcoming place where advisement fosters retention and matches student needs to academic and non-academic program options
- Areas of Focus
- Base an advising model on best practices.
- Base a customer service model on best practices.
- Conduct an assessment of internal/external needs for new programs.
- Base a retention model on best practices.
- Examine trends to connect programs and careers.
- Develop a multi-faceted and integrated communication approach.
- Promote recruitment through a variety of external groups.
Priority 4
Programs
Develop a comprehensive, sustainable plan in which needs of students and workplace match demands and where pathways for cutting-edge non-credit and credit programs flow to careers/employment/transfer.
- Areas of Focus
- Develop programs based on community needs and sustainability.
- Develop and expand new and existing partnerships and programs including linkage between non-credit programs that feed into credit programs.
- Base a retention model on best practices.
- Develop and expand existing and new partnerships.
- Adjust faculty/staff workload to accommodate program development.
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