Strategic Initiative Dashboard

Priority 1: 

Implement comprehensive initiatives and tailored support systems to better serve adult learners

Diversity in Curricular and Co-curricular Content and Programming

• Tactic 1.1 Build curriculum (course content & co-curricular programming) that reflects the diversity of our student body
• Tactic 1.1.1 Bring a team of faculty together to review our curriculum to see where we already do this
• Tactic 1.1.2 Review course learning outcomes to identify existing course content and if any revisions are needed (faculty to determine).

Student Evaluation of Courses and Services

• Tactic 1.2 Identify a committee/group (FEST) who can work towards developing a meaningful student evaluation of courses and services that is geared towards different modalities
• Tactic 1.2.1 Develop a meaningful student evaluation of courses and services that is geared towards different modalities for classroom and non-classroom faculty
• Tactic 1.2.2 Review with interested groups and receive feedback, incorporate feedback, and provide recommendations.

Industry-relevant Content & Curriculum

• Tactic 1.3  Ensure our instructors are tapped into industry practices and organizations to get relevant information to students
• Tactic 1.3.1 Review of ways advisory boards or other existing mechanisms are being utilized for best practices
• Tactic 1.3.2 Expand into liberal arts and other areas (beyond only workforce programs)

Faculty Professional Development

• Tactic 1.4  Expand our existing professional development system for faculty rank and tenure progression (possibly including sabbatical)

Adaptive Instructional Practice

• Tactic 1.5  Adapt instructional practices based on identified student needs
• Tactic 1.5.1  Better understand students’ needs holistically

Priority 2: 

Design a flexible schedule that accommodates students' diverse needs.

Schedule Optimization

• Tactic 2.1  Elevate the student informed scheduling needs with faculty (explain the why)
• Tactic 2.1.1  Get the data needed to help explain the why
• Tactic 2.1.1.1 Review modality needs and student preferences including types of courses
• Tactic 2.1.2  Ask current and former students what they want regarding schedules (more data) and ensuring they can build a schedule that works for them
• Tactic 2.1.3  Support faculty when we are asking for these changes
• Tactic 2.1.4 Articulate clear roles & responsibilities within the leadership structure
• Tactic 2.2 Ensure there are adequate options for students to be able to build a schedule
• Tactic 2.2.1 Conduct analysis of when required courses are offered to ensure students can complete all courses in a required program within a two-year period
• Tactic 2.2.1.1 Review the data we have to identify existing gaps
• Tactic 2.3  Identify ways to overcome space limitations for scheduling (ex. Labs or resources in classrooms)
• Tactic 2.4 Review the needs and scheduling options at the Lakeshore Campus

Priority 3: 

Realize inclusive learning environments at GRCC in both physical and online settings.

Inclusive Learning Environments

• Tactic 3.1  Assess the current state of inclusivity of learning environments
• Tactic 3.1.1  Create a clear process of evaluating inclusive environments across campuses and virtually

Universal Design for Learning

• Tactic 3.1.2  Assess & support faculty & staff’s implementation of UDL in instruction & classroom environment

English as a Second Language Curriculum

• Tactic 3.2 Assess where we currently are with ESL policies & curriculum
• Tactic 3.2.1 Create scaffolding that will help ESL (like developmental placement) students succeed

Priority 1: 

Harness the power of data to inform our practices and guide decision-making

Data Informed Decision-making

• Tactic 1.1 Foster a data-informed culture
• Tactic 1.1.1 Increase data literacy across the organization
• Tactic 1.1.2  Increases employee access to the data by creating dashboards
• Tactic 1.1.3 External training in analytics to drive overall data literacy including each person's role
• Tactic 1.1.4 Clarify the current plan for the student success data team to act as consultants to help other areas understand their data needs and what is available to them
• Tactic 1.2  Have a common framework to run parallel reports with accuracy & understand our data better
• Tactic 1.2.1  Have a common understanding of completion, transfer, & data collection
• Tactic 1.3  Finalize and implement a data governance policy
• Tactic 1.3.1 Establish data quality and integrity
• Tactic 1.3.1.1 Identify one source of data for college reports including an evaluation process for data
• Tactic 1.3.1.2 Minimize the number of locations where we store data

Priority 2: 

Foster a seamless integration between education and employment for our students

Student Career Planning

• Tactic 2.1 Review & understand the info the high schools are collecting on career planning (the checklist) to determine its relevance for GRCC
• Tactic 2.2  Create a mechanism to make career planning part of the systems (shared communication across campus)
• Tactic 2.2.1 Review and document the communications that are occurring around career planning
• Tactic 2.2.2  Assess how students are using the options we currently have and identify gaps
• Tactic 2.2.3  Build an indicator of where a student is in career decision making into orientation (explain they should expect this from GRCC) (underway)
• Tactic 2.2.4 Determine how we can better utilize the existing career exploration mechanisms we have in place

Employer-Based Career Exploration

• Tactic 2.3 Establish a coordinated effort for employer partners to give students the opportunity to learn about careers and a variety of fields and to develop the relationship between students and employers

Career-focused Curriculum

• Tactic 2.4  Leverage our curriculum to assist students in their career planning
• Tactic 2.4.1  Make intentional assignments in our courses around career exploration
• Tactic 2.4.2 Add a statement around career planning to the syllabi and/or faculty curriculum dev. shell

Non-Credit to Credit Course Alignment

• Tactic 2.5  Identify additional areas to enroll students from non-credit spaces to credit courses (alignment with grant opportunity)

Priority 3: 

Implement targeted retention and graduation strategies to support historically marginalized communities

Enhancing Belonging Among Underserved & Underrepresented Students

• Tactic 3.1 Better define what we mean by underrepresented & underserved and create strategies for each sub-group
  Tactic 3.1.1  Assess strategies and best practices in creating a sense of belonging for students in each subgroup
• Tactic 3.1.2 Implement best practices for creating a sense of belonging
• Tactic 3.1.3  Attract gender non-traditional students into specific career paths (males in nursing, etc.) / encourage students to expand their thinking about career possibilities
• Tactic 3.2  Expand professional development opportunities around serving underrepresented & underserved populations

Priority 1: 

Strengthen mental health support for students, staff, and faculty by expanding resources and capacity to address their diverse needs and promote well-being

Campus-wide
Mental Health Supports

• Tactic 1.1  Educate faculty about the systems (for example, Navigate, BIT reporting, etc.) that exist to help students
• Tactic 1.1.1  Understand the infrastructure and processes we have around mental health
• Tactic 1.1.2  Create a roadmap of the system that currently exists and including gaps (ex. Click navigate button doesn’t go directly to counselor)
• Tactic 1.2  Develop processes and systems to help fill in gaps identified in 1.1.2
• Tactic 1.3 Have the capacity (staffing & financial) to support the institution's mental health needs

Priority 2: 

Provide comprehensive support for students' basic needs by implementing initiatives that provide access to essential resources inside and outside the classroom

Student Basic Needs

• Tactic 2.1  Institutionalize supporting students’ basic needs
• Tactic 2.1.1  Support faculty and staff with knowledge and resources to support students’ needs
• Tactic 2.1.2 Support adjunct faculty as a first-line for students (provide same information as full-time faculty)
• Tactic 2.1.3  Help all staff & faculty know what is available to help students & support them getting their basic needs met

Wraparound Funding and Services

• Tactic 2.2 Identify grants and other additional funds for wraparound services to replenish existing funding sources
• Tactic 2.2.1 Identify funding to be able to add human resources to focus on wraparound services

CARES Network of Student Support Outcomes

• Tactic 2.3  Increase transparency and accessibility of data from GRCC CARES including what services are most often requested
• Tactic 2.3.1  Identify where the data is stored (ex: Navigate?) and how to gain access to it including who should access it
• Tactic 2.3.2 Better understand outcomes and students who use services vs. those who do not and how that impacts long-term outcomes

Priority 3: 

Cultivate an institutional environment that embodies and prioritizes equity and inclusion

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Professional Development

• Tactic 3.1  Create a shared understanding of what GRCC means by diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB)
• Tactic 3.2  Review our current policies, procedures and systems in place
• Tactic 3.3  Create learning opportunities to support DEIB across the college (ongoing)

Priority 4: 

Ensure representation of faculty and staff are reflected by the richness and diversity of our student body and community

Inclusive Hiring Practices

• Tactic 4.1  Review our hiring processes to ensure they support DEIB efforts
• Tactic 4.1.1  Ensure coordination among HR, People/Culture/Equity, academic depts. and associate deans 
• Tactic 4.1.2  Get more cooperation between dept. hiring of adjuncts & HR who work on this
• Tactic 4.1.3  Look at/change our policy of internal postings (if pool isn’t diverse to start this hinders us)
• Tactic 4.2  Redesign and deliver training on DEIB (including bias) for the search committees & anyone in a position to hire before interviews

Priority 1: 

Execute a comprehensive strategic enrollment management system to effectively manage and achieve enrollment goals

Strategic Enrollment Management Plan

• Tactic 1.1 Fully develop a strategic enrollment management plan
• Tactic 1.1.3 Develop student group enrollment strategies for each category of students we serve
• Tactic 1.3 Align current technology solutions to align data/enrollment management
• Tactic 1.4  Evaluate our enrollment processes to ensure they align with the SEM when complete

Community Economic
Forecasting

• Tactic 1.1.1 Better understand our competition- 4 Years, For Profits, & Comm. Orgs
• Tactic 1.1.2 Dig deeper into what the next 10-15 years look like including economic factors (forecasting)

Data Governance

• Tactic 1.2  Ability to obtain and interpret our data and share with relevant parties
• Tactic 1.2.1  Establish a data governance model (see Goal 2; Priority 1)
• Tactic 1.2.2 Review current systems to determine how they enable job performance and where data resides

Priority 2: 

Enhance academic and student services at the Lakeshore Campus

Lakeshore Academic and Student Services Optimization

• Tactic 2.1 Determine the identity of Lakeshore (which programs serving which students)
• Tactic 2.1.1  Assessment and gathering feedback from internal and external stakeholders to help determine gaps and direction for the campus 
• Tactic 2.1.2 Identify necessary student services and enhance them at the LS campus.
• Tactic 2.1.3 Enhance the Lakeshore facilities including lab space to meet the needs of the LS stakeholders
• Tactic 2.2 More effectively utilize technology to enhance the services available at LS & connect virtually to the main campus
• Tactic 2.2.1 Identify necessary student services (technology) and enhance them at the LS campus

Priority 3: 

Forge strong partnerships between GRCC and K-12 educational institutions

K-12 Partnerships

• Tactic 3.1 Establish new partnership models (beyond middle college) Ex. Pre-apprenticeships, Direct Credit, etc.
• Tactic 3.2  Align pathways for students to earn certificates that ladder to degrees
• Tactic 3.3 Establish partnerships with the lower grades K-8 to develop pipelines of students

Priority 4: 

Expand and diversify our network of employer partnerships by actively pursuing collaborations with previously untapped organizations

Strengthening Collaborations with Community and Employer Partners

• Tactic 4.1 Partner with community non-profits to expand employer relationships to lead to increase educational attainment for their employees
• Tactic 4.2 Offer work-based learning experience/ internships with employers for students
• Tactic 4.3 Reinvigorate and diversify our advisory committees
• Tactic 4.3.1 Create a President's Employers Council
• Tactic 4.4 Review technology solution to track partnerships (CRM)

Priority 1: 

Enhance our organization's human resource potential by implementing targeted training programs and fostering a supportive and inclusive work culture

The New Employee Experience

• Tactic 1.1 Re-envision the onboarding process for staff
• Tactic 1.1.1  Reinvigorate a mentoring program for new staff as part of onboarding
• Tactic 1.1.2  Help new employees acclimate to the College (formal portion such as policies, procedures, technology, etc.)

Transparent
Evidence-based Hiring Practices

• Tactic 1.2  Communicate the progress towards more transparency around the hiring process for staff (a better understanding of how we select candidates, who is in the pool, etc.)
• Tactic 1.2.1  Review our evidence-based hiring process for staff

Creating a Culture that Fosters Employee Recruitment and Retention

• Tactic 1.3 Create a better and more consistent employee experience to recruit and retain employees in a competitive environment 
• Tactic 1.3.1 Explore applicant tracking management system, onboarding, and performance management
• Tactic 1.3.2 Share information about what is being done to address the turnover rate and ensure departments receive the same information
• Tactic 1.3.3 Support supervisors to help provide a consistent employee experience across departments
• Tactic 1.3.4 Establish more structure and policy around contingency positions

Priority 2: 

Strike a balance between physical space and technology for a seamless integration that enhances the learning experience

Facility Optimization

• Tactic 2.1  Assessing physical space needs given the change in distance education demand
• Tactic 2.2  Use course scheduling to better respond to our physical space needs as assessed
• Tactic 2.3  Optimize and promote usage of our labs and study spaces to increase utilization
• Tactic 2.4 Provide guidelines to use student preference / attendance to optimize building usage

Priority 3: 

Foster a culture of environmental responsibility to reduce our ecological footprint

Campus-Wide Environmental Sustainability Effort

• Tactic 3.1 Reduce physical waste
• Tactic 3.2 Better understand how we can be more sustainable in the environments we are in
• Tactic 3.2.1 Reiterate the importance of incorporating sustainability actions into the daily routine

Priority 4: 

Ensure financial stability and resource optimization

Departmental Budget Literacy

• Tactic 4.1 Educate and empower supervisors and budget control officers to know the tools we have available including our budget process
• Tactic 4.2 Annual refresh on budgeting process 
• Tactic 4.3  Incentivize turning money back at the end of the year (rather than the May spend)*