Strategic Plan

 

Expanding College Access for High School Students

• Strengthening opportunities for high school students in math
• Creating new initiatives in English to bridge the gap between high school and college
• Developing an integrated K through 20 system of education in Cascadia's district that focuses on life-long learning
• Expanding dual enrollment opportunities through Running Start and College in the High School
• Exploring an early college high school academy program in Information Technology
  
  

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Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Social Justice by Expanding Access to College Programs

• Enhancing recruitment and support of underrepresented students
• Improving transitions from Adult Basic Education to college coursework
• Increasing off-campus, online, and time-shifted scheduling to increase options for students
  
  

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Streamlining Access to Bachelor's Degree Attainment

• Streamlining pathways with UW-Bothell (co-located partner) and other four-year institutions in areas such as Business, Global Studies, Art, Engineering, Computer Science and Science
• Developing new Transfer Admission Guarantees, with other high choice destinations (e.g., Stanford, Arizona State University)
• Developing a system of co-enrollment with several universities (e.g., Bastyr, UW, Seattle University, DigiPen)

Enhancing Interdisciplinary Programs

• Implementing the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices
• Expanding integrated learning experiences (e.g., learning communities, linked classes, and opportunities for community-based learning) for new and continuing students
• Exploring ways to further integrate STEM and Humanities programs
• Developing new interdisciplinary Professional Technical programs/certificates in high demand occupations
  
  

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Growing Community-based Learning and Internships

• Identifying opportunities in the curriculum for community-based learning and internships
• Developing community partnerships that promote assessment and community- based learning programs
• Recruiting industry partners to engage students in real world applications in Professional Technical Programs
  
  

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Developing and Implementing a Model Community College  Internationalization Plan

• Developing a comprehensive and integrated internationalization plan including the infusion of global themes into the curriculum and the development of global studies
• Facilitating ties between local and global cultures within Cascadia College and beyond
• Exploring innovative ways to link STEM programs to global partners

Improving Faculty and Staff Support

• Increasing the full-time part-time faculty ratios to 50:50 of credits taught as budget and enrollment allow
• Increasing support for full-time and part-time faculty and staff development
• Supporting use of data in implementing best practices in teaching and learning
• Recruiting and supporting faculty and staff to represent the diversity of the student body, diversity, equity and inclusion and social justice
  
  

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Extending Academic Support for Students

• Implementing, assessing and refining effective supplemental instruction and/or tutoring models including developing a comprehensive STEM Learning Center
• Enhancing retention by implementing and improving best practices (e.g., intensive advising for high risk students, mandatory orientation, year-long registration)
• Ensuring the continued adoption and implementation of high impact instructional technology
  
  

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Creating Physical Spaces that Support Integrated Education

• Devising physical spaces to more effectively integrate STEM and the humanities
• Creating spaces that support informal modes of learning
• Developing spaces that increase the connections between the campus and community partners
  
  

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Enhancing and Expanding STEM Education

• Enhancing the quality of STEM education through cutting-edge lab curricula, new faculty hires, and ongoing professional development
• Expand the integration of sustainability research and practices in STEM education
• Creating spaces and identifying resources that allows for the development of undergraduate research opportunities

Maintaining High Levels of Student Engagement

• Promoting student engagement in "active and collaborative learning"
• Promoting high levels of "student effort"
• Promoting high levels of "academic challenge"
• Promoting high levels of "student-faculty interaction"
• Promoting student use of "support for learning"
  
  

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Strengthening Students' Success

• Increasing student attainment of Student Achievement Initiative credit-accumulation benchmarks (completion of 15, 30, 45 college-level credits)
• Increasing student attainment of Student Achievement Initiative completion benchmark (completion of apprenticeships, certificates, or degrees)
• Increasing student attainment of Student Achievement Initiative benchmarks concerning completing gateway courses (completion of a college-level English or Quantitative Math course)
• Maintaining progression through ELP levels and transition ELP to college level
  
  

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Ensuring Student Learning

• Ensuring students meet college outcomes in distribution areas
• Maintaining high success rates in gatekeeper courses

Improving Infrastructure

• Creating and configuring facilities to support growth of the student body, integrated learning, program development, and employee effectiveness
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining technology to support the operations of the College
• Developing and implementing a transportation management plan to supports enrollment growth in an environmentally responsible manner
  
  

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Managing risk

• Managing enterprise risks through a systematic process
• Maintaining a high level of emergency preparedness
• Maintaining a safe and secure campus
• Developing and implementing a financial plan to support the implementation of the Strategic Plan
  
  

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Maintaining Relationship with UW Bothell

• Maximizing synergies with UW Bothell while maintaining institutional identity and control in a financially sustainable manner
  
  

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Communicating and Engaging

• Maintaining Shared Governance in organizational decision making
• Establishing college as community resource for higher education
• Maintaining effective lines of communication with campus community
  
  

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Supporting Employees

• Providing opportunities to participate in personal, professional, and required training and development
• Maintaining Effective Employee and labor relations