- Goal A. Clarify Student Pathways
- Create accessible pathways and meta-majors informed by data ensuring that student completion is the primary basis of course and program development.
- Communicate pathways, meta-majors, and potential occupational and educational outcomes internally to credit and noncredit students and campus constituencies.
- Communicate pathways, meta-majors, and potential occupational and educational outcomes externally to high school students and counselors as well as universities, workforce partners, and the community.
- Analyze labor market information regularly and systematically to support the development of new CTE programs meeting student and industry needs and the currency of existing CTE programs.
- Goal B. Facilitate Student Entry into Pathways
- Promote access by expanding outreach to prospective traditional and nontraditional students, including expansion of dual enrollment partnerships and effective use of branding.
- Enhance processes and technological tools to assist students in choosing pathways, including increased access to counseling at all locations and online.
- Maximize accessibility into appropriate pathways through class scheduling and improved student awareness of scheduling patterns and pathways.
- Improve the effectiveness of external and internal communication about the value of college, its relationship to job and transfer opportunities, and the value of GCC programs.
- Improve course placement (e.g., multiple measures assessment, corequisite remediation, articulation from noncredit and high school) and student transition from precollege to college-level courses.
- Goal C. Help Students Stay on Pathways
- Explore alternative curricular methods to improve student retention and progress (e.g., backwards design, competency-based education, assessment of prior learning).
- Improve student engagement through increased support for student life at all campuses (e.g., student clubs and campus events, as well as other collaborative efforts and activities).
- Investigate the use of and implement achievement coaches (e.g., student services technicians) to improve student retention and progress.
- Improve student retention through early alert, intrusive interventions, flexibility of pathways, and improved awareness of services available to students.
- Expand online student support services.
- Lower costs associated with being a student (e.g., Open Educational Resources, implementing the California College Promise).
- Goal D. Ensure Student Learning
- Reduce gaps in achievement, learning, and completion among student groups to ensure equity and improve outcomes.
- Increase dialog about learning outcomes and use assessment results to ensure strong linkage to Institutional Learning Outcomes, meta-majors, and expectations of employers and transfer institutions.
- Invest in innovation and professional development for student services and instructional pedagogy (e.g., active learning, contextualized learning, project-based learning, culturally relevant pedagogy) for student engagement, learning, and retention.
- Work with K-12, noncredit, and transfer partners to maximize matriculation, articulation, and applicability of credits.
- Increase effectiveness of distance education, including improving student access to it and the support of faculty in content creation, online pedagogy, alignment with statewide online education standards, and instructional design.
- Goal E. Improve Operational Effectiveness
- Integrate enterprise systems to increase efficiency in areas such as budgeting, personnel evaluation tracking, etc.
- Increase employee awareness of available resources and services for students so students are directed appropriately.
- Clarify resource allocation process and more tightly integrate the processes with planning and budgeting.
- Increase and improve professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, and students to develop technology skills and other topics prioritized by the Institutional Master Plan.
- Evaluate and maintain the currency and security of technology available to students and employees, including expanded support of BYOD (“bring your own devices”).
- Maintain and improve learning spaces in all buildings.
- Ensure safe, student-friendly, clean, functional, and physically accessible campuses for students (e.g., signage, directories, and working with bus schedules).
- Ensure effective implementation of automatic awards.
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