Example Plans
2015–2019 Strategic Plan
The plan includes a revised mission statement, core values and nine goals with specific objectives
Conference Presentations
ASAP
In this session, you will learn about CUNY's ASAP model, how it receives operating and capital funding, and how the physical spaces that support the program were identified, designed, and renovated.
Conference Presentations
Bringing Industry, Education, and Non-Profits Together
In this session, we will discuss the Construction Education Center, a state-of-the-art facility at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha campus, that facilitates project-based learning to bring industry partners, non-profits, and students together under a common vision.
Example Plans
Campus Master Plan
Master plan for a community college system’s newest campus, including the relocation of several programs.
Conference Recordings
Can a Campus Plan Drive Equity?
Come find out how you can apply lessons learned and strategies from Wake Tech's inclusive master planning process to successfully respond to opportunities and challenges of diverse enrollment on your campus.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Community Colleges
This is a reprint of a paper originally published on the Fulton-Montgomery Community College website in August 2013.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Crafting the Master Plan: A Collaborative Challenge for Community Colleges
Master planning can help an institution address major challenges, but you have to know how to do it right. This article examines the planning process, with special emphasis on community and consensus building, using case studies from two rapidly growing community college districts in Texas and California.
Conference Presentations
Educating the Next Generation of Industry Leaders
This session will illustrate how industry-academic partnerships have led to the creation of cutting-edge, career-focused education that reimagines vocational training through a new, didactic construction sciences facility.
Conference Recordings
Entrepreneurial Planning
Join this session for a facilitated, interactive journey with two college and university leaders that will explore the application of the effectuation model to college planning.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Expanding College Completion
It is important to ensure that our nation’s open-access colleges can operate at a level where they can provide seats at the higher education table for all who wish to attend.
Conference Recordings
Go Nowhere Without a Partner
This session will demonstrate how to meet complex needs for economic mobility and the workforce through several diverse partnerships. You’ll learn about various sources you can use to achieve successful project results as well as how you can nurture your campus and community partnerships for the long term.
Conference Recordings
Insights
This capstone session will identify key insights from the series, pose new questions, and offer creative, actionable ideas for moving higher education forward.
Conference Presentations
Lanier Technical College
We will explore the planning, design, and stakeholder collaboration behind Lanier Technical College's new campus, which is designed to house 50 workforce development programs.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Leveraging Institutional Planning to Benefit Latinx Students
How can institutional planners make a difference for underrepresented minority students? Senior administrators at East Los Angeles College addressed inequities in Latinx student transfer rates with data-backed culturally-relevant strategies.
Conference Presentations
Not Your Typical Classroom
This session will explore current and emerging approaches for medical teaching environments that enhance learning outcomes as well as inventive ways of leveraging building infrastructure for maximum functionality.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Planning at Mesa Community College
Within the span of a year, it’s possible to make significant progress toward achieving and institutionalizing integrated planning and budgeting.
Example Plans
Planning Website
Web home for planning activities and resources at the institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Promoting Engagement in Strategic Planning
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.
Conference Recordings
Renovating Student Services to Promote Success
Using the renovation of Normandale Community College's College Services Building as a case study, we'll discuss how integrating student services and creating an innovative service model can better promote student success.
Conference Recordings
Simulation and Partnerships
This session will explore trends and partnership development strategies around simulation-based training facilities for first responder students and professionals.
Example Plans
Strategic Plan 2006–2016
Webpage for the college’s 2006–2016 strategic plan, including a progress scorecard for each year.
Example Plans
Strategic Plan 2013–2016
The institution used the framework of the AACC Completion Agenda to develop and align its College Completion Indicators to its mission. These measures address its core categories of institutional effectiveness.
Example Plans
Strategic Plan 2017 Update
This progress report measures progress toward goals put forth in the college’s 2017 strategic plan.
Example Plans
Strategic Plan 2017–2018
The college’s strategic plan lays out strategies for each of its three strategic goals. Each strategy is accompanied by a deadline date and a list of critical departments.
Conference Recordings
Supporting the Whole Student
In this session, we’ll share how the College of Marin and Chabot College's integrated learning centers are serving changing student populations using an inclusive library design approach.
Example Plans
Technology Strategic Plan 2017–2021
Technology plan for the college including current status of technology at the college, needs statement, and information about college technology directions.
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Tennessee Promise
The Tennessee Promise will change the face of educational attainment for Tennesseans.
Conference Recordings
The Kitchens
In this session, you'll learn how RCC delivers culinary workforce training and academic programs in a satellite facility at the heart of a poverty-concentrated area, pushing back economic isolation and promoting learning and health.
Conference Presentations
The Kodak Legacy Reimagined
Monroe Community College opened its new urban campus in fall 2017 through an initiative that repurposed an industrial complex into a vibrant community college steeped in town/gown relationships that provide mutual benefits.
Conference Recordings
The Library in Transition
The transformation of CCP's library will aid a diverse student body with learning, tutoring, research, and social spaces—learn from this project and discover methods to help your students achieve educational success.
Conference Recordings
The Paradigm Shift for Higher Education
Join us to discuss the postsecondary education paradigm shift and its potential impact on our educational infrastructure, ecosystem, and role.
Conference Presentations
UW Bothell/Cascadia College Master Plan
We will discuss how the implementation of our master plan galvanized collaboration and amplified partnerships among two co-located institutions, public agencies, and the Bothell community to creatively address capital funding and implement needed growth.
Webinar Recordings
Voices from the Field: Episode #19
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.