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3 year plan helps college leadership focus on goals
The Advocate
Mt. Hood Community College has a new three-year plan, starting this year that extends to 2012, to help the college leadership team focus on goals.
The plan is a re-vamped version of the 2010 Plan. The new three-year plan is now called “be|strategic” and consists of three main goals: teaching and learning strategies, plans for community engagement, and resource development.
“The three over-arching goals are teaching and learning, number one – no surprise, we’re an educational institution; community engagement would be number 2 – that is, how we’re involved in the community, we had been somewhat disassociated from the community and that’s something people wanted from us (to be more engaged in the community). The third is resource development, what are we doing to raise more money?” said MHCC President John Sygielski.
“We looked at the 2010 plan and realized that it was a little out of date,” said Sygielski. “We also know that it wasn’t in the consciousness of the college community. So what we decided to do, in August of 2008, was develop a new three-year strategic plan which we called ‘be|strategic’.”
The be|strategic plan includes information gathered from Sygielski’s SCOT analysis as well as from more than 70 town-hall meetings and from Sygielski’s listening tours.
“We held over 70 town-hall meetings, that included not only internal faculty and staff, but external business people, educational leaders and all the rest,” said Sygielski.
According to MHCC’s strategic planning blog, the teaching and learning objectives include recruitment from local high schools, assessment that “enhances the effectiveness and relevance of instruction,” and a plan to implement a comprehensive marketing strategy based on an understanding of the needs of MHCC’s “community stakeholders.”
The community engagement portion of the be|strategic plan includes goals to forge relationships with local public and private institutions in order to “respond to the diverse and changing needs of our students.” As well as to “raise awareness of MHCC by providing life-long learning opportunities,” that also contribute to the social, economic and cultural development of the communities MHCC serves.
The third goal, resource development, pledges to build and maintain public trust through communication and transparency, to “create facilities, systems, programs, and practices that are environmentally sustainable.”
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