Strategic Priorities and Action Steps

PLANNING, ACHIEVING AND MANAGING GROWTH

Action steps
Highlighted steps will be addressed in 2002 and 2003. Other steps will be prioritized at the conclusion of Year 1 and remanded to Years 2, 3, and beyond.

1. Develop multiyear enrollment projections based on assumptions supported by documented trends.

2. Set objectives for yearly enrollment growth for targeted market segments and align growth objectives with revenue projections.

3. Emphasize a data-driven approach to student recruitment through development of an enrollment management database to track prospects.

4. Identify retention strategies for collegewide implementation.

5. Develop and implement a collegewide training program for staff on project and program financial planning and cost/benefit analysis.

6. Recommend and implement a new business system that will improve services to the college community.

7. Identify and address new sources of alternative revenue, including public and private funding, creative financing and appropriate reductions/costs savings to the college.

8. Establish a method to assure that financial and human resources are committed to meeting priorities related to instructional excellence and student success.

   review and revise current practices and patterns for allocating current revenue and resources in college funds and appropriated grant funding disseminate related information internally and externally

9. Identify and implement activities designed to strengthen and support a revised technology plan.

10. Implement short-term phase of the Master Facilities Plan.