MISSION: BCC prepares, inspires and empowers our richly diverse student body with a quality educational experience that facilitates social mobility, lifelong learning and engaged citizenship.
GUIDING PRINCIPLES: Accountability, Communication, Empowerment, Equity, Integrity, Respect
STRATEGIC PLAN: 2020-2025
Prepare, Inspire, Empower
GOAL 1: FOSTER STUDENT SUCCESS
Objective 1.1: Promote Student Engagement and Success Behaviors
a. Restructure, consolidate, improve and integrate student services to support, track and develop student engagement and success behaviors.
b. Develop clear, consistent Growth Mindset and Intelligent Practice messaging, programming and assessment across the campus.
c. Improve and coordinate all communications with and about students (including communication of policies, regulations, protocols and procedures) in transparent and user-friendly formats.
d. Promote and reinforce both active teaching and learning for application.
Objective 1.2: Support Holistic Needs of All Students
a. Expand and improve efforts to provide financial supports and financial literacy training for students.
b. Support the physical, emotional and mental well-being of students.
c. Develop expanded and integrated programming for specific populations (adults, online, Honors, at risk and international students) using best practices from what we have done and learned.
Objective 1.3: Facilitate Improvement through Assessment
a. Develop and maximize the utilization and impact of e-tools to support systematic tracking, reporting and analysis of feedback, self-reflection, student actions and outcomes.
b. Further develop the assessment program, including the use of formative assessment to inform improvements; the use of summative assessment to demonstrate learning/success outcomes; and the development of mechanisms to support, collect and organize
assessment results.
GOAL 2: ADVANCE ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Objective 2.1: Strengthen the Effectiveness of Curricula and Programs
a. Consistent with the Academic Master Plan (AMP), develop, implement and accelerate efforts to support curricular and programmatic improvement in alignment with educational and employment trends and student needs.
b. Develop and implement an Integration Plan for basic and higher-order thinking (critical thinking, quantitative literacy, information literacy, visual literacy) skills across the curriculum.
c. Increase efforts to promote students’ job readiness and career success.
d. Expand partnerships with industry, senior colleges, and international institutions.
Objective 2.2: Support Excellent Teaching, Scholarship of Teaching/Learning, and Faculty Diversity
a. Develop roadmaps of professional development and mentorship for all faculty built around student learning-centered pedagogies and assessment.
b. Increase faculty diversity and mentorship/retention of underrepresented faculty and staff.
Objective 2.3: Facilitate Improvement through Assessment
a. Further develop the Academic Assessment Program, including the use of formative assessment to inform improvements; the use of summative assessment to demonstrate learning/success outcomes; and the development of mechanisms to support, collect and organize assessment results.
GOAL 3: STRENGTHEN INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Objective 3.1: Increase Enrollment and Retention
a. Create a Strategic Enrollment Plan with corresponding structures, functions, accountabilities and targets.
Objective 3.2: Improve College Operations and Facilitate Improvement through Assessment
a. Leverage technology to develop systems, structures, and communication vehicles to improve transparency, efficiency, and communication, including improvement and dissemination of budget/administrative reports.
b. Strengthen oversight and accountability processes, benchmarks, and dashboards, utilizing existing structures (annual and periodic reports and assessments, administrative council, senate committees) to:
(1) further develop administrative assessment, review and improvement processes,
(2) develop budget recommendations, priorities and decisions supporting the college’s core functions and strategic priorities, and
(3) inform emergency planning and recovery processes.
c. Create, update and utilize policy and procedure manuals and documentation for all administrative processes.
Objective 3.3: Enhance the Campus Physical Environment
a. Improve the condition of facilities, including: (1) daily maintenance and cleaning; and (2) utilizing assessments of infrastructure systems and life cycle duration to inform actionable items and priorities as well as longer-term facilities planning.
Objective 3.4: Strengthen Campus Climate and Community Impact
a. Improve campus climate through the development of campus traditions, recognition programs, equity initiatives and by defining campus principles in behavioral terms.
b. Develop and increase opportunities for faculty/staff professional development and growth.
c. Engage all faculty, students and staff in active civic and community service.
d. Formalize orientation/professional development program for all new campus leaders (department chairs, senate members, committee chairs, student government, etc.).
