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Fall Faculty & Staff Meeting. October 9, 2006. Overview. United Way Kickoff Enrollment Stats – Fall 2006 Anderson Campus Update Strategic Plan (2006-07) – Executive Staff Activities Becoming a Learning College SACS and QEP Update. Support United Way!. Lynn Lollis, Campaign Chair
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Fall Faculty & Staff Meeting October 9, 2006
Overview • United Way Kickoff • Enrollment Stats – Fall 2006 • Anderson Campus Update • Strategic Plan (2006-07) – Executive Staff Activities • Becoming a Learning College • SACS and QEP Update
Support United Way! Lynn Lollis, Campaign Chair Lane Hudson, Campaign Co-Chair 2006-07
Expected to open Spring 2007 Campus-wide planning underway Credit by Summer Start with C.E. Classes in Spring Anderson Campus Update
Strategic Plan 2006-07 Executive Staff Activities
Enhance Opportunities for Student Success • Student Learning Initiative: Establish the essential foundation elements for becoming a Learning College. Executive Staff Activities: • Introduce the Learning College concept • Define the needs and approach required to embrace a “Culture of Evidence” • Integrate Outcomes/Assessment and Institutional Planning • Student Retention Initiative: Improve the programming and services that impact student retention.
Promote a Collegial and Diverse Environment • Organizational Culture Initiative: Foster an organizational culture that encourages open and full participation of all employees and students in the life of the College. Executive Staff Activities: • Define the organizational culture • Assess perceptions and needs of the campus community • Develop and prioritize strategies for achieving the desired culture • Diversity Initiative: Increase diversity of the campus community.
Promote Professional Development and Personal Enrichment of Employees • Professional Development Initiative: Provide mechanisms to build awareness, develop skills, and expand perspectives of employees through professional development. Executive Staff Activities: • Provide appropriate support for professional development • Personal Enrichment Initiative: Encourage employee participation in personal enrichment experiences Executive Staff Activity: • Define processes and conditions needed to support employee participation in PD experiences
Promote Economic and Community Development. • Collaborations Initiative: Increase mutually beneficial collaborations between the College and the community and between the College and other institutions of higher education. • College Image Initiative: Define the desired image of the College and implement programs and activities to achieve the desired image. • Economic Development Initiative: Initiate economic development programs and partnerships in the service area.
Improve the Physical Environment. • Physical Environment Initiative: Provide a physical environment that enhances student learning and employee satisfaction.
Expand Educational Opportunities • Educational Opportunities Initiative: Expand educational opportunities that effectively meet the economic and personal goals of all segments of the service area. Executive Staff Activity: • Establish a systematic process to coordinate a smooth transition to the Anderson Campus facility and to provide effective internal and external communication
Becoming aLearning College • We exist to produce LEARNING! • Learning is our PRODUCT!
Characteristics of a Learning College • Be committed to student learning; • Organize our work for the purpose of student learning; • Put learning first in everything we do and think seriously about how we engage students for learning; • Provide meaningful learning options for students that may be cross disciplinary; • Treat our students as full partners in the learning process; • See our faculty as learning facilitators, not deliverers of content; • Conduct meaningful assessment of student learning; • Develop a college culture that supports learning at every level of the institution.
SACS Reaffirmation • Compliance Report (completed; final issues addressed during on-site team visit) • Quality Enhancement Plan • Review by on-site team Oct 30-31 and Nov 1 • Decision expected Nov 1 • Disapprove; or • Approve (and offer recommendations); or • Approve (with no recommendations) • Ruling on Reaffirmation (June 2007)
Preparing for the On-Site Visit On-site team will meet with groups of faculty, staff, and students • Review latest QEP information—Check QEP portal on Campus Pipeline
Quality Enhancement Plan • The topic of the QEP is the Learning Excellence Initiative (LEI) • Purpose: To improve students’ learning and their learning capacity during the transitional experience, and to foster their social and academic integration into the institution . . .
Learning Excellence Initiative • Three components: 1. Smart Start 2. Freshman Seminar 3. Learning Communities
LEI Implementation: Next Steps Establish LEI Implementation Team • Complete initial planning work • Smart Start begins May 2007 • Initial COL 105 and learning communities offered Fall 2007
SC Technical College SystemLegislative Priorities2007-08 • Lottery Funding • Tuition Assistance: $47.6M requested • Technology Equipment Funding: $12M for higher education; $5M flows to Technical Colleges.
Legislative Priorities2007-08 – General Funding • Continuing and Expanding the Allied Healthcare Initiative ($15M recurring) • Ensuring Quality and Innovation Through Teaching Faculty ($8M recurring) • Developing a Statewide Registered Apprenticeship System Coordinated within the SC Tech System ($1M recurring) • Supporting CATT ($8M nonrecurring)
