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LCC Board of Trustees December 3, 2012 Jim Luke Professor of Economics and Strategic Challenges Project Champion. Strategic Challenges: Project Wrap-Up. “ Strategic Challenges ” Project. Led by Executive Leadership Team in collaboration with campus and community partners
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LCC Board of Trustees December 3, 2012 Jim Luke Professor of Economics andStrategic Challenges Project Champion Strategic Challenges: Project Wrap-Up
“Strategic Challenges” Project • Led by Executive Leadership Team in collaboration with campus and community partners • Considered external issues that could have a substantial impact on our operations • Undertaken as an Action Project as part of Academic Quality Improvement Program (AQIP) requirements
“Strategic Challenges” Project • Included input from a broad range of constituents • Generated conversations on some of the most important issues facing higher education today
What We Heard: Common Themes • Board of Trustees • Community • Faculty • Staff • Research
Strategic Issues • Funding shifts
Strategic Issues • New rules, goals, and roles
Strategic Issues • New competition
Strategic Issues • New student life realities
Strategic Issues • Changing demographics and community factors
Strategic Issues • Communications and organizational climate
Strategic Issues • Accelerating change
Strategic Issues • New facts of life for higher education: • Funding shifts • New rules, goals, and roles • New competition • New student life realities • Changing demographics and community factors • Communications and organizational climate • Accelerating change
Transition to Strategic Planning • Findings will inform the college’s Strategic Plan, which is also an AQIP Action Project. • We must strengthen and build fundamentals. • We must transform for the future.