MHCC's Strategic Planning Blog

Strategic Planning - Links

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Click on the following link to access the MHCC website with various documents on the Strategic Planning process.

http://mhcc.edu/pages/3182.asp

Strategic Planning Goals

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Goal One: Teaching and Learning

We value our students, employees, and community. We celebrate individual uniqueness, worth, and contributions while embracing diversity of people, backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We are committed to cultural competency and to the success of our students and employees.
Measures of Success:

1. Provide instruction that is sleek and innovative in spirit, relevant to a diverse student body, global in its perspective, multi-modal in its delivery, responsive to community partnerships, and responsible in its stewardship of human, physical, and fiscal College resources.

2. Perform continual and meaningful assessment that assures enhancement in the quality, relevance, and effectiveness of instruction, student services, and the learning and working environment of the College.

3. Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy based on a thorough understanding of the needs of MHCC’s community stakeholders.

Goal Two: Community Engagement

We value collaboration and actively pursue productive and mutually beneficial partnerships among people, institutions, organizations, and communities to share diverse ideas, talents, and resources.
Measures of Success:

1. Respond to the diverse and changing needs of our students, communities and businesses by ensuring that curricula provides the knowledge, skills and experiences required by employers.

2. Raise awareness of MHCC by providing life-long learning opportunities and contributing to the economic, social, cultural development of the communities we serve.

3. Develop and expand partnerships with P-20, community colleges, business and other public/private organizations to create mutually beneficial partnerships.

4. Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy based on a thorough understanding of the needs of MHCC’s community stakeholders.

Goal Three: Resource Development

We value personal and institutional integrity, responsibility, and accountability. We believe in serving our constituents responsibly in order to preserve the public’s ongoing trust. We value inspired, informed, transparent, and responsible leadership and decision-making at all levels of the college. We strive to create facilities, systems, programs, and practices that are environmentally sustainable.
Measures of Success:

1. Maintain public trust through effective, efficient, and inclusive internal and external communication, demonstrating transparency and responsible stewardship of all resources.

2. Collaborate with all constituencies to create dynamic, mutually beneficial partnerships.

3. Develop and implement a comprehensive marketing strategy and plan based on a thorough understanding of the needs of every campus community stakeholder.

4. Plan and manage growth strategically.

MHCC Facebook Group

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The following link will take you to MHCC's Facebook Group

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=15156093357

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FROM MHCC 2010

Possibilities 2009-2012

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.” Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

As we have listened to our campus and community members, a recurring theme in the many focus groups, listening tours, and personal discussions that form the basis for our strategic planning, has been the concept of “transformation”. Consider briefly the transformation of society since 1999 when Mt. Hood Community College first conceived its ten-year plan. Today’s environment does not invite long term plans. In order to maintain agility and flexibility to adjust to business and industry demands and changing needs of our community, the college is developing strategies for near term timeframes, a three- year perspective. There will be no one moment in time at which the college is “transformed.” Rather, we are building a culture of transformation and refinement, one of continuous improvement that fundamentally addresses the needs of our students and our communities.

►MHCC 2010: a multi-year project that resulted in a ten-year plan for the college (2001)

►Annual review of goals and progress toward goals

►Priorities identified and progress reported annually

►President John (Ski) Sygielski appointed as the 6th president of Mt. Hood Community College (2008)

►President Ski conducts preliminary SCOT analysis prior to arriving (April 2008)

►MHCCD Board directs President Ski to develop a strategic plan for the institution (August 2008)

►President Ski conducts dozens of Listening Tours (July - 2008)

►President Ski hosts a retreat with Administrators and JLC representatives (September 2008)

►College honors the past by reviewing and revising vision, mission, values (September - 2008)

►Executive Committee invited to participate by the President (September 2008)

►Campus appointments to the Executive Committee (September 2008)

►Results of the prior data collection drive the new plan (September – 2008)

“What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve"

Draft Strategic Plan, 2009-2012

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Draft Strategic Plan, 2009-2012

[Be | Creative -- Our Plan needs a title!]

Vision
To become the flagship community college in Oregon and beyond

Mission
Building Communities | Transforming Lives

Values
Access, Accountability, Collaboration, Communication, Diversity, Fun, High Performance, Inclusiveness, Innovation, Integrity, Joy, Learning, Opportunity, Quality, Relationship, Respect, Service, Student Success, Teaching, Trust

Goals

Teaching and Learning • Community Engagement
Resource Development
Internal • External • Human, Financial, Facilities

[Draft strategies or goals]

Strategic Planning Forums

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Gresham Campus

All Staff:

10/27, 4-5pm, Vista Dining Room
11/18, 12:10-1:10pm, Visual Arts Theater

Part-time Faculty & Tutors (all in president’s office):

10/27, noon
10/28, 5:30pm
12/1, noon
12/2, 5:30pm

Full-time Faculty:

10/22, 12-1pm Visual Arts Theater
11/4, 4pm, Faculty Senate
11/18, 4pm, Faculty Senate

Classified Association:

10/16, 12-1:30pm, Board Room
11/25, 2:30-3:30pm, location TBD
12/18, noon, Board Room

Students:

11/3, 5-6 pm, Jazz Cafe
11/10, 12-1pm, Jazz Cafe

Maywood Park Campus

All Staff:

11/5, 4-5pm, rm 223-224

P-t Faculty & Tutors:

10/30, 5-6pm, rm 223-224

Steps to Success

All Staff:

11/7, 2-3pm, Mt. Hood Room
12/12, 2-3pm, Mt. Hood Room

The Bruning Center

All Staff:

12/3, 4-5pm
12/10, 3-4pm

STRATEGIC PLANNING SUMMARY NOTES

2008-11-01T19:47:00.000-07:00

FINANCIAL RESOURCES

October 16, 2008

Duke Shepard, Joe Gall, Andrew Jackman, Eric Juenemann, JoAnn Zahn

Question posed: What must Mt. Hood Community College do to become a world-class education and training partner in your community, your life, your business?

Program development
- Visionary to future
- Emerging industries and technology
- Signature programs that Industry will provide funding
- Be “Green” and sustainability focused
- Ensure relevence to our “customers” in the district and beyond

The MHCC district represents more than 300,000 people
- Be the life-long learning provider
- Must provide quality in all aspects of teaching and learning
- Evaluate “where are we now?”
- Create an experience

Develop and/or enhance college funding
- Grow the Foundation endowment
- Collaborative lobbying for education funding
- Increase grant writing
- Maximize resources

STRATEGIC PLANNING SUMMARY NOTES

2008-11-01T19:46:00.000-07:00

INTERNAL RELATIONS

October 16, 2008

Ron Hitchcock, Jack Horner, Janine Johnston, Wendy Schissel, Hollis MacLean Wenzel, Marilyn Zook

Question posed: What must Mt. Hood Community College do to become a world-class education and training partner in your community, your life, your business?

Make MHCC the “hub” of the community

Create a speakers bureau of community/business members for classes
Identify “superstars” among faculty and get them into the community
Create formal and informal internships for students with community organizations
Make entire district feel it is part of MHCC

Make MHCC an “incubator” for ideas and pilot projects—e.g. every school district has same key needs as on our list for Teaching and Learning, ours are not unique but if we work with the districts we create synergy through sharing and “scaling up”
- Get out to high schools and bring high schools to campus

Build on what is here—for example,
- Recognize that our physical space/setting allow us to “demand respect”
- Natural Resource Management—so appropriate where we live
- Nursing program
- CASS program

Show off MHCC facilities/setting—make them valuable thru events such as
- Lunchtime concerts open to public
- “A Taste of MHCC” mini-courses, short performances, exciting lectures, etc. open to public once a month—reminiscent of “Strawberry Shortcake” of MHCC’s former days

Advertise intensively the “economy of scale” for students attending MHCC in comparison to 4-year or private schools
- Feature bachelor’s degree completion on campus [partnership with EOU]
- Brand MHCC—“When I go into X, I want to go to MHCC”
- Broaden concept of MHCC—not just transfer school

Host an annual non-profit organization conference so like-minded individuals can get together and share knowledge and ideas with students/faculty

Host events directed at children, featuring early education—kids are a way to get to parents, too

Don’t work as a sole entity—build community partnerships instead of thinking in terms of doing community “outreach”

STRATEGIC PLANNING SUMMARY NOTES

2008-11-01T19:44:00.000-07:00

PHYSICAL FACILITIES

October 16, 2008

Daryle Broadsword, Malcolm McCord, David Miles, Tony Palermini, Shelley Redinger, Dick Strathern, Paul Warr-King

Technology layout is key-
- Campus needs to be completely wireless
- Campus needs to be up to date/cutting edge
- Students will stay longer perform better
Campus has poor first appearance
- 30 plus years of no cosmetic work
- Gloomy place
- Failure of bonds at fault
- Confusing campus access
  - Exits were closed
  - Had to go around back to find access
  - What is back there
- Early Children Education building almost condemned
Satellite locations are not well known or utilized in community
- Maywood is not well known by community
- High Schools at night have not been options in the past few years as were utilized in the early days of the campus
  - Sandy would love to partner with Mt. Hood this way
- Cal Center/Bruning not widely utilized at night
- Could utilize Gresham City Hall
- Key of the above two spaces is the proximity to MAX
Clackamas Community College is a very welcoming place by comparison/a place people from with in this group have had their own children and friends of their children go
Perception of “No place for our students to go”
Need to have 4 year degree programs on our facilities- two members of our group unaware that we have EOU programs on our campus
- Need to work with PSU
- Provide more options than business/education
- Seek more seamless opportunities and offerings
Need new technology on campus
- Need to change perceptions of old fashioned place
  - Cash registers in the dining hall appear old and dated

Make sure all instructional equipment is quality and up to date
- SmartBoards in classrooms
- Multimedia in each classroom

Solar technology needed
- Partner with high tech industries in Hillsboro, Salem, Troutdale
Need to be seeking partners to help develop campus and attract new venture capitol
Alternative energy resources need to be developed
Natural Resources and Sustainability need to be a priority
- Partner with the Forest Service
- We are a growing area have a key linkage with our Hospitality and Tourism Program degree options
Concerns about our infrastructure
- Fire in the boiler/chiller two summers ago and not able to repair it due to old technology-limping along with only one left
- creates comfort levels for students
- Poor working conditions and potential reduced productivity
Need to be exploring options of facilities/resource
- Back 40 Acres-
  - Is it still ours
  - What level of development
  - Business
  - Educational space
Partnerships need to be developed
- Swimming pool for potential community outreach
  - Rockwood kids who need activities
  - Gresham City Sports Park tournaments that give added value events
Appearance issues-noticed lots of ‘old chewing gum’ on the way in 50 pieces
Need to have daily maintenance
- Lack of staff to provide for the large facilities
- Poor motivation of staff????
- Overworked staff
- Not enough staff
Improve site lines for safety on grounds-40 years of landscape growth time to redo the facilities and grounds
Foundation see donor for new buildings/partnerships- use other Community colleges to see who has had success and the models that they use as to how it can be done more effectively
Partner with other facilities to leverage new educational programs-
- McMenamins for a brewing program
- Miles fiberglass works with Clackamas Community college to develop employees
Transportation partnerships to help facilitate educational opportunities
- Kids for various athletic programs/activities in arts drama music with 1^st Student bus organization
- Free shuttles form each campus
Make sure Drama, Art facilities utilized and are state of the Art
Upgrade Band equipment
Improve lighting on all campuses for safety at night, Gresham, Bruning, Maywood
Use facilities as a learning lab for National Foundations to Transform MHCC into state of the art Green Facilities
Develop master plan with outside consultant to look at Entire Campuses to check for maximization of existing facilities and potential redesign and change in utilization of space for maximum efficiency
Gresham campus Main Mall area in front of the bookstore covered
Develop a customer center for service
Mascot of campus needs to have association and recognition with the facilities
Students need facilities that provide essential needs
- Comfortable study space
- Convenient study space
- Safe
- Well light
- Food and beverages that are healthy, affordable, and convenient
Need to seek out businesses that are evolving
- Nano technology
- Health care
- Provide facility opportunities for high school partners for these growing interest

STRATEGIC PLANNING SUMMARY NOTES

2008-11-01T19:43:00.000-07:00

HUMAN RESOURCES

October 16, 2008

Dawn Barberis, Sharon Birge, Sheri Mosher, Sue O’Halloran, Tom Perrick, Barbara Rommel

Question posed: What must Mt. Hood Community College do to become a world-class education and training partner in your community, your life, your business?

MHCC step up as a spokesperson through statistics; tell economic ‘story’ of our area, (often the media go to PSU); engage the college’s research office with the community and become the resource the community goes to for information
MHCC to become a leader with its vision / be a trusted advisor and liaison / be more engaged with business and industry and all customers
Outreach, especially among 20-30 year olds, engaging young people who may / may not finish high school; outreach at multiple locations; help students get started
Match desires of students for jobs to needs of business and industry, leading to living wage jobs for students
Poverty and crime are up in East County; reach out to those individuals to tell them about jobs and training; get more information out to help them with access to the college

Job readiness skills training needed; such as computer skills

Leverage and understand community partners; better partnerships with employers, high schools and business and industry; economic development
Communicate and connect with high school counselors; reach high school students and create opportunities to learning pathways to careers

Boeing – provides 12 high school students with internships to expose them to manufacturing
Workforce / work source

Anticipate social and learning needs of retiring ‘baby boomers’ – lifelong learners - partnering off campus so they don’t have to ‘trek’ to the Gresham campus; feed needs other than financial

Community education activities – compliment the good job the college is doing

Organization and staff flexible to find solutions to problems and systems

Knowing college staff and leaders; community does not know point people in the college
Be results oriented; easily make a call and get where you need to be through personalized attention and response

Instructors’ background – mark of respect of the college; publicly share research/experience of faculty - demonstrates quality of the college
Business and industry representatives serve on screening committees to provide insight into hiring key college staff

Strategic Planning Summary Notes

2008-10-27T22:32:00.000-07:00

EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION

October 16, 2008

Karen Fischer-Gray, Kim Freeman, Courtney Montague, Vickie Stom, Denise Walton

Question posed: What must Mt. Hood Community College do to become a world-class education and training partner in your community, your life, your business?

· Connect kids seamlessly to MHCC, including educational career pathways that articulate from K- 12 to MHCC and meet the needs of our regional workforce

· Increase number of clubs/activities for all students of color-beyond Latino

· Certified Nurse Assistant Program Level 1 and 2 at Maywood Park Campus

· Develop more on-line programs/evening weekend programs offered at Maywood for adults

· The College needs customer service that is 24/7, just like the business world

· More customized training and funds to support the departments providing it, i.e., new supervisor/leadership training, Lean/SigSigma

· Develop/create more educational opportunities that are relevant for ELL/VESL students

· Include partners in the development of the VESL programs and consistently market these programs to the community

· Enhance consistent two-way communication between MHCC and partners

· Businesses need not only the technical skills but the economic/soft skills for pipeline and incumbent workers

· More public/private collaborations

· Participate in community learning events (MHCC staff needs to do this)

· MHCC should be more involved in K-12-from elementary to high school, i.e., MHCC students as volunteer tutors

· MHCC should collaborate, not command, what K-12 should do

· Very detailed idea based on a model from Southern Oregon:

CREATED= Collaborative (education, business, college), Relevant, Educational, Applied Technology (for) Economic Development

A core group of leaders from across the region (from the subgroups listed above) meet four times per year-to define the training needs and create action plans for business/education - specifically focusing on four to five specific industries