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Published
July 21, 2020

2020 Annual Conference | July 2020

President’s Session | Every Student’s Dream Matters

Lorain County Community College’s Vision for Student Success

By: Marcia Ballinger, President, Lorain County Community College | Jonathan Dryden, Provost/Vice President for Academic and Learner Services, Lorain County Community College

Come learn how Lorain County Community College (LCCC) identifies game-changing innovations and aligns resources to bring them to scale.

Abstract: Core to the mission and vision of Lorain County Community College is the belief that “Every Student's Dream Matters,” that every student, regardless of their background, can succeed. LCCC built its culture of student success upon strategies that include a broad community-based strategic planning process, transparent dialogue about institutional data, an organizational structure that fosters responsiveness, and strategic finance principles that align resources with mission. Come learn how LCCC, as a mission-driven institution, identifies game-changing innovations and aligns resources to bring them to scale.

Institutions Mentioned: Lorain County Community College
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Community College, Presidential Leadership, SCUP 2020 Annual Conference, Student Success

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Voices from the Field: Episode #19

Maintaining Community and Connection Through COVID-19

By: Suzanne Wilson Summers, Special Assistant to the Provost, Austin Community College, and ACE Fellow 2019–2020

Suzanne Wilson Summers explains how Valencia College, a large urban community college system and her ACE Fellowship host school, harnessed the power of personal outreach to ensure students regained a sense of agency and connection while providing engagement for employees.

Abstract: One of the most difficult things to maintain when there’s a quick move online is the feeling of connection and community staff and students feel when they’re together on campus. Suzanne Wilson Summers explains how Valencia College, a large urban community college system and her ACE Fellowship host school, harnessed the power of personal outreach to ensure students regained a sense of agency and connection while providing engagement for employees.

Institutions Mentioned: Valencia College
Planning Types: Continuity Planning
Tags: American Council on Education (ACE), Community College, COVID-19, Online Learning, Response Planning

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Promoting Engagement in Strategic Planning

Southeast Community College Used FAST Goals to Capture Stakeholder Interest

By: Paul Illich and Shawna Herwick

Creating a positive, reflective, inclusive, and transparent institutional climate facilitated improved engagement in and ownership of strategic and departmental planning. The process of using FAST goals (frequently discussed, ambitious, specifically measured, and transparent) produced constructive outcomes.

From Volume 48 Number 3 | April–June 2020

Abstract: Southeast Community College (SCC) transformed its departmental planning by embedding a cultural goal within its strategic plan. The goal focused on creating a positive, reflective, inclusive, and transparent institutional climate—through the implementation of departmental FAST goals. That goal type refers to those that are frequently discussed, ambitious, specifically measured, and transparent, which represents an alternative to the commonly used SMART goal-setting approach. This article describes how a change of climate at SCC set the stage for the conversion to FAST goals—and improved engagement in and ownership of strategic and departmental planning.

Institutions Mentioned: Southeast Community College
Planning Types: Strategic Planning
Tags: Community College, Organizational Culture, Planning Processes

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Fostering Innovation on Ohio’s Co-Located Campuses Through Collaborative Planning

By: Jeremy W. Webster, PhD, Ohio University-Zanesville

This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2018–2019 program. This research project investigates whether co-located institutions, specifically, and competing institutions of higher education, more generally, could use the concept of “collaborative planning” to achieve mutual success.

Abstract: This research project investigates whether co-located institutions, specifically, and competing institutions of higher education, more generally, could use the concept of “collaborative planning” to achieve mutual success. Collaborative planning is a conceptual framework from urban planning that emphasizes “partnership,stakeholder involvement, collaboration, and consensus-oriented decision-making” as core principles of planning (Vandenbussche, Edelenbos, and Eshuis 2017). It is an effective tool for transcending competition, negotiating disagreements, and achieving increased institutional collaboration and innovation.

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Conference Presentations

Published
March 8, 2020

2020 North Atlantic Regional Conference | March 2020

Two Community Colleges With Differing but Similar Survival Paths

By: Robert Hicks, Senior Project Manager, Stantec | James Mabry, President, Middlesex Community College | Anthony Benoit, President, Benjamin Franklin Institute

This session will explore how two community colleges are making both similar and different strategic choices in order to thrive during a very uncertain period in higher education.

Abstract: In this period of declining enrollment, decreasing resources, increasing competition, changing demands, and changing technologies, colleges must be both entrepreneurial and careful in their strategic planning. This session will explore how two community colleges are making both similar and different strategic choices in order to thrive during a very uncertain period in higher education. We will explore how planning processes have produced divergent strategies for navigating the very uncertain waters facing all of higher education, particularly in this region.