Mission-Based Institutional Goals
I. Ensure that all who may benefit from the learning experiences offered by the college are welcome, through appropriate admissions practices, affordable tuition and fees, financial aid, and a supportive environment.
II. Encourage all degree-seeking students to develop competencies in critical analysis and reasoning, information literacy, oral and written communications, scientific and quantitative reasoning, and technological competence.
III. Promote student learning and achievement through effective teaching, a supportive learning environment, data-based enrollment management strategies, and activities to encourage student engagement and responsibility.
IV. Prepare students for successful completion of the baccalaureate degree through rigorous transfer programs, appropriate advising, and effective articulation agreements.
V. Provide career preparation and job skill enhancement through credit programs, noncredit entry-level career training, professional continuing education leading to industry licensure and certifications, and career development and counseling services.
VI. Support county business development through provision of customized training and business services including assessment, consulting, training plan development, and performance improvement programs provided under contract.
VII. Develop educational partnerships with business, industry, community organizations, and governmental entities to further economic and workforce development.
VIII. Embrace an increasingly diverse and changing world, encouraging students, faculty, and staff to value diversity, cultivate global awareness, promote social justice, and welcome new ways of working and learning.
IX. Promote community enrichment through cultural programming, lifelong learning offerings, and accessible facilities.
X. Create an intellectually stimulating and professionally rewarding environment that encourages employees to grow as individuals and team members, to act with integrity at all times, to seek out and implement best practices, and to embrace the college's core commitment to be a student- and learning-centered institution.
XI. Employ financial, human, information, physical plant, and technological resources effectively and efficiently to fulfill the college's mission.
XII. Establish and nurture a sense of community among students, faculty, and staff.
