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Community College
Planning for Higher Education Journal
“Menus That Matter” at the Heart of Kalamazoo Valley Community College’s Bronson Healthy Living Campus
Culinary and food professionals can serve as positive change agents in society.Example Plans
2015–2019 Strategic Plan
The plan includes a revised mission statement, core values and nine goals with specific objectivesExample Plans
2023–29 Educational Master Plan Development Timeline
This timeline highlights opportunities for community input to the educational master plan’s development.Webinar Recordings
A Community College Perspective on Their Role in Future-Proofing Education
Richard Fort from Johnson County Community College and James Pfeiffer from BNIM will share lessons learned from post-covid educational offerings and incorporating a diversity of spatial and programmatic options to facilitate workforce development.Planning for Higher Education Journal
A National Economic Case Statement for Community Colleges
Now more than ever the role of postsecondary education is to cultivate the nation’s human capital.Example Plans
Academic Master Plan 2014–2017
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Academic Master Plan Website 2020–2025
Website for the institution's academic master planning process, offering information about purpose, process, and timeline.Example Plans
Academic Master Planning Process Flowchart
Flowchart showing the process that the institution will undergo to develop its academic master plan.Example Plans
Academic Program Review Template 2018–2019
Worksheet for performing academic program review.Example Plans
Annual Planning Guide for Academic Affairs Offices/Programs
This document provides an overview of the annual academic planning process at the college, with guidance on how to contribute.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Around the Water Cooler, Minus the Water Cooler
More than 100 Muskegon Community College employees attend weekly, all-college meetings. These are essential touchpoints for communication, learning, and planning.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
Assessing Institutional Capacity for Mission-Fulfillment and Student Success
Planning for Higher Education Journal
Book Review: Work Force Rx
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
Calendar to Develop Annual Plans & Budgets for the 2022–23 Academic Year
The college recently redesigned its planning and budgeting process to strengthen alignment and improve communications. This calendar depicts the timeline for that process.Conference Recordings
Campus Tour | H. Lavity Stoutt Community College
This tour chronicles the development of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) into a locally-grounded tertiary institution with international aspirations.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.Webinar Recordings
Catapulting African-American Women to Degree Completion at Land-Grant HBCUs
What factors support degree completion for African-American women students at Land-Grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)? New research on African-American women's degree completion dives into the contributing factors that support these students and catapult them to the degree completion mark.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
Converting the Community Colleges
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.Example Plans
Department/Unit Action Plan Sample
A worksheet provided to units and departments by the office of institutional research (filled with sample data).Conference Recordings
Developing Programs and Facilities for Next Generation Industry Leaders
We'll illustrate how industry-academic partnerships led to the reimagining of vocational education in a new, didactic facility for construction sciences.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.Example Plans
Enrollment Management Plan 2020–2025
The college’s enrollment management plan, which prioritizes student access and success.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Ensuring Effective Governance
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.Conference Recordings
Equitable Cross-Disciplinary Planning for Underserved Populations
Through the lens of two diverse community college districts, this session will investigate inclusive, interdisciplinary approaches to long-range campus and strategic 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.Example Plans
Facilities Master Plan
Webinar Recordings
Facilities Planning for Community Colleges
The planning team for Portland Community College will discuss lessons learned while practicing equity to create an inclusive Facilities Plan for Oregon’s largest higher education institution on thresholds of global, local, and institutional shifts.Report
Fostering Innovation on Ohio’s Co-Located Campuses Through Collaborative Planning
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.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Future of Community Colleges
Community colleges today are essential to civil society.Example Plans
Futures Work
From April 2020, the institution’s president led faculty and staff in a rigorous planning and exploration process to ensure that the college remained accessible and thriving through the pandemic and beyond. This bridge plan document details the action steps resulting from that process.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.Example Plans
Highland Campus Master Plan
Master plan for a community college system’s newest campus, including the relocation of several programs.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Improving Credit Mobility for Community College Transfer Students
A report reprint from Education NorthwestConference Presentations
Incorporating Critical Race Theory in Physical Planning
Learn from Portland Community College's ongoing exploration of what it means to apply Critical Race Theory to the built environment.Conference Presentations
Increase Student Participation in Planning to Create More Equitable Spaces
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.Example Plans
Institutional Planning & Accreditation Website
Example Plans
Institutional Planning Process Infographic
Blog Post
Integrated Planning at Nicolet College
During “Horizons 2025: Integrated Planning at Nicolet College,” presented at SCUP North Central 2023 Regional Conference, presenters Christin Van Kauwenberg, director of business intelligence, and Erika Warning-Meyer, chief of staff, described how the community college implemented integrated planning. Two conference attendees share the insights and ideas that resonated with them.Example Plans
Integrated Planning Cycle Infographic With Links to College Plans
The institution displays their list of institutional plans in a clickable infographic that shows them in the context of the long-range planning cycle and the annual cycle.Conference Presentations
Integrating Facility and Academic Master Plans Through Collaboration
In this session, we will share how the Mid-Plains Community College engaged in a collaborative process across the campus and community to integrate the facility and academic master plans.Conference Presentations
Integrating the Educational and Facilities Master Plans
Using an integrated planning model, Pima Community College District demonstrates how to integrate educational and facilities master plans through the lens of a shared mission.Planning for Higher Education Journal
It Takes a (Virtual) Village
This large community college successfully embraced virtual communication platforms and moved forward with a viable 10-year plan during a global health crisis, economic turbulence, and technological change.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.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Managing Change from the Murky Middle
Middle managers are often blamed for change failure and portrayed as change resisters or saboteurs. However, what looks like obstructionist behavior could actually be the observable effects of role ambiguity.Example Plans
Mission, Vision, and Values
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.Example Plans
Operational Plan Feedback Form
Worksheet for providing feedback on operational plan documents.Example Plans
Operational Planning Assumptions
List of assumptions to guide the operational planning exercise.Example Plans
Operational Planning Template
Worksheet for action planning at the department/unit level.Example Plans
Phase II Facilities Master Plan Summary
A summary of facilities projects the college proposes to fund with capital bond proceeds.Conference Recordings
Pivot! Planning During a Pandemic and Staying on Course
In this session, we'll share best practices and lessons learned in virtually adapting the cycle of planning and budgeting processes to an uncertain, volatile, and virtual environment.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 for the Future
The website for the 2023 strategic planning process.Conference Recordings
President’s Session | Every Student’s Dream Matters
Come learn how Lorain County Community College (LCCC) identifies game-changing innovations and aligns resources to bring them to scale.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.Example Plans
PVCC Futures
The community college’s strategic plan describing high-level goals and strategies.Example Plans
Quality Enhancement Plan
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 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
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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.Example Plans
Strategic Plan 2019
This strategic plan for a state system of community colleges defines its contribution to the state's workforce development goal.Example Plans
Strategic Plan 2019–2020
Example Plans
Student Success through Guided Pathways
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.Example Plans
Ten Year Vision for Success
The college’s 2006–2016 strategic plan. Highlights include a progress scorecard for each year and a matrix to guide cost savings through process and technology efficiencies.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Tennessee Promise
The Tennessee Promise will change the face of educational attainment for Tennesseans.Planning for Higher Education Journal
The 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Community College Presidents
This is a reprint of a study by Gallup® and Inside Higher Ed published in April 2016.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.Planning for Higher Education Journal
The Little Campus That Could
The Institutional Effectiveness Office at Kaua‘i Community College developed and administered community and workforce surveys to better understand current and future educational needs of residents and employers on Kaua‘i.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 Recordings
The Role of Community Colleges in Future-proofing Education
In this session, we’ll share how community colleges can use metrics to understand long-term projections around regional enrollment needs and use human purpose integrated design to build for the future.Conference Presentations
Two Community Colleges With Differing but Similar Survival Paths
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.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.Conference Recordings
You Can’t Cut Your Way to Financial Stability
This session focuses on the unique financial challenges facing community colleges due to the pandemic.