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Strategic Planning
Dear colleagues and community members,
I hope this message finds you safe and well. Though this has been a trying year for all us, with many twists and turns, Clackamas Community College is still doing what it does best, quickly adapting to changes while still serving students and the community. Despite COVID-19 and now the wildfires, we have continued to plan for the future.
Clackamas Community College has begun work on a five-year strategic plan, which will serve the college through the year 2025. The strategic plan will provide direction for the college and help inform what services and programs we should be providing, how to more fully integrate into the community, and how to prepare students for the careers of the future.
This plan will help us define who we want to be and how we are going to get there, along with defining what we should be doing and what we need to stop doing. This plan will also serve as a reference point when we work through the budget process each year, ensuring we align resources with what is most mission critical.
Given the recent challenges of COVID-19 and the changing landscape of education, now more than ever our community is counting on us to:
- Provide high-quality student and community experiences
- Respond to the needs of our service district
- Leverage the strengths of our faculty, staff, and other resources
To provide the greatest value in a rapidly changing environment, it is crucial that we establish clear priorities and strategies to guide our decision making, investments, and programs. Strategic planning requires us to be purposeful and to make choices. We have engaged the consulting firm Coraggio Group to assist us in the process. We have also assembled a Planning Team whose membership includes faculty, staff, students, and community representatives.
To do this process well, we need everyone involved. We want to hear your voices and perspectives. Over the course of summer and fall 2020, the College will use surveys, interviews, and focus groups to gather input from internal and external stakeholders. During winter and spring 2021, the College will convene town halls to discuss themes that have emerged from that input, and begin working on defining its next set of strategic priorities, and related action plans.
The success of this process and plan depend on the engagement of the college community and the community of our college district. Thank you in advance for your participation. We’ll be updating this website with information throughout our strategic planning process. If you have any questions, contact Jason Kovac at jason.kovac@clackamas.edu.
Kind regards,
Tim
Strategic planning updates
Dear colleagues,
Last spring, Clackamas Community College began work on a five-year strategic plan, which will serve the college through the year 2025. The strategic plan will provide direction for the college and help inform what services and programs we should be providing, how to more fully integrate into the community, and how to prepare students for the careers of the future.
I’d like to announce that the first phase of the college’s strategic planning work, the Get Clear phase, is complete. This summer and fall the Strategic Planning Team conducted a survey, held virtual focus groups, and led many interviews with internal and external stakeholders to learn their perspectives on the key opportunities and challenges facing the college. I want to thank everyone who participated in this initial work.
Based on the input gathered, our strategic planning partner, Coraggio Group, has put together an Insight Report that captures key themes to inform the college’s next strategic plan. The report includes a summary of the engagement process as well as insights, implications, and supporting data for each of the six themes listed below.
Strategic themes
- Clackamas Community College’s culture is strongly student-centered. The college has an opportunity to think comprehensively about the best ways to provide holistic student support for the needs of 21st century learners.
- To remain relevant and responsive to the evolving needs of the community, the college needs to continue to innovate and focus on quality teaching and learning.
- Clackamas Community College has an opportunity to lead in diversity, equity, and inclusion work, both internally through greater alignment and externally as a community convener.
- Clackamas Community College is one of the community’s best-kept secrets. This limits its reach.
- Strengthening relationships, improving systems and processes, and building change resilience will better position the college for the future, including successful implementation of the strategic plan.
- State funding, the COVID-19 pandemic, and decreased enrollment are impacting Clackamas Community College’s budget and ability to deliver on its mission.
We recognize it is the end of the term but wanted to share this information with our college community as soon as it became available. You can find the full Insight Report here. The Coraggio Group will also be preparing an executive summary of the full report, which will be shared in early January.
Next steps:
- The Strategic Planning Team will meet several times in January and early February to begin translating the themes into elements of the strategic plan.
- The Strategic Planning Team will facilitate a portion of winter 2021 in-service (Feb. 12), where the draft elements will be discussed and refined. Save-the-date calendar invites have been sent for winter in-service, and additional details will follow in January.
Best,
Tim
Dear colleagues,
Last spring, Clackamas Community College began work on a five-year strategic plan, which will serve the college through the year 2025. The strategic plan will provide direction for the college and help inform what services and programs we should be providing, how to more fully integrate into the community, and how to prepare students for the careers of the future.
I'd like to announce that the first phase of the college's strategic planning work, the Get Clear phase, is complete. This summer and fall the Strategic Planning Team conducted a survey, held virtual focus groups, and led many interviews with internal and external stakeholders to learn their perspectives on the key opportunities and challenges facing the college. I want to thank everyone who participated in this initial work.
Based on the input gathered, our strategic planning partner, Coraggio Group, has put together an Insight Report that captures key themes to inform the college's next strategic plan. The report includes a summary of the engagement process as well as insights, implications, and supporting data for each of the six themes listed below.
Strategic themes
- Clackamas Community College's culture is strongly student-centered. The college has an opportunity to think comprehensively about the best ways to provide holistic student support for the needs of 21st century learners.
- To remain relevant and responsive to the evolving needs of the community, the college needs to continue to innovate and focus on quality teaching and learning.
- Clackamas Community College has an opportunity to lead in diversity, equity, and inclusion work, both internally through greater alignment and externally as a community convener.
- Clackamas Community College is one of the community's best-kept secrets. This limits its reach.
- Strengthening relationships, improving systems and processes, and building change resilience will better position the college for the future, including successful implementation of the strategic plan.
- State funding, the COVID-19 pandemic, and decreased enrollment are impacting Clackamas Community College's budget and ability to deliver on its mission.
We recognize it is the end of the term but wanted to share this information with our college community as soon as it became available. You can find the full insight report here. The Coraggio Group will also be preparing an executive summary of the full report, which will be shared in early January.
Next steps:
- The Strategic Planning Team will meet several times in January and early February to begin translating the themes into elements of the strategic plan.
- The Strategic Planning Team will facilitate a portion of winter 2021 in-service (Feb. 12), where the draft elements will be discussed and refined. Save-the-date calendar invites have been sent for winter in-service, and additional details will follow in January.
For more information about the college's strategic planning work, please see the strategic planning website.
Best,
Tim
Good morning,
The college has begun work on a five-year strategic plan, which will serve the college through the year 2025. Given the recent challenges of COVID-19, wildfires and the changing landscape of education, now more than ever our community is counting on us. The strategic plan will provide direction for the college and help inform what services and programs we should be providing, how to more fully integrate into the community and how to prepare students for the careers of the future.
To do this process well, we need everyone involved and want to hear your voices and perspectives. Please share your insights to inform how the college serves our community by taking our survey. The questions are also attached if you would like to review them prior to taking the survey. This survey will be open through Oct 19.
Survey: Clackamas Community College Strategic Planning Survey
Strategic Planning Team members
- Jane Littlefield
- Tory Blackwell
- Laurette Scott
- Tim Cook
- David Plotkin
- Alissa Mahar
- Loretta Mills
- Stephanie Schaefer
- Dean Walch
- Katie Alexander
- Wesley Buchholz
- Esther Sexton
- Ivan Acosta
- Lanie Sticka
- Irene Konev
- Bonnie Wilkinson