Alamo Colleges District

The board discussed and approved a contract with ProEducation Solutions, LLC for the purchase of financial aid application verification services. This contract is for an estimated annual amount of \u0024105,000.00 and will cover the verification of approximately 14,000 student financial aid applications annually. The services include connecting to the Alamo Colleges District's financial aid processing system, reviewing applications, and reporting inaccuracies to Alamo Colleges District Student Financial Aid representatives.

The strategy map outlines key strategies focusing on completion, advising, institutes, enrollment, high school programs, and quality. It includes measures of success such as degrees and certificates awarded, student career goals, satisfaction with advising, and market penetration rate. The plan aims to align course guides, enhance enrollment management, improve employee engagement, and increase student success and completion rates.

The 2019 Alamo Colleges District Stakeholders' Strategic Planning Retreat focused on identifying action focus themes and big ideas for breakthrough innovation to enhance student success and performance excellence. The plan involved conversations with 1300 stakeholders to gather input. Key areas of focus included improving processes and removing barriers to enrollment, increasing student resources and advocacy, empowering all people to lead, strengthening collaboration and communication, improving the overall student and employee experience, and enhancing internal and external communication. Big ideas for breakthrough innovation included initiatives such as one-day enrollment, free college plus, free instructional materials, creating higher education leaders, leadership development innovation, program-based learning, merit pay and employee appreciation, and a robust path to career/credential to career. The goal is to empower diverse communities for success and advance the economic and social mobility of students.

The 2022-2025 Strategic Plan for San Antonio College outlines a three-year operational strategic planning and assessment cycle. The plan involves regular data reviews, updates to division strategic plans, gap analyses, mid-year analyses, and annual audits of reporting units. The process incorporates data from SAC SCORES and informs the college's budget. The plan also includes an "OUTLOOK: Looking Forward" component utilizing external data and college-wide strategic conversations to inform the end of the 2022-2025 plan and the development of the 2025-2028 plan.

The 2016-2019 Strategic Plan for San Antonio College focuses on empowering the community by meeting the postsecondary learning needs of a diverse, globally networked society. The plan aims to help students reach their full potential by preparing them for graduation, transfer, or workforce entry with strong critical thinking, communication, leadership, and teamwork skills, as well as civic responsibility and quantitative understanding. Four strategic priorities are outlined: developing integrated student success pathways from pre-entry to credentialing; strengthening college infrastructure and resources to manage internal and external changes; fostering a culture of responsibility and performance excellence to improve student, employee, and organizational effectiveness; and embracing diversity and inclusion to support individual potential. Specific goals under each priority address student access and success, system-wide process enhancement, infrastructure strengthening, change management, student responsibility, performance-based culture, outcome assessment, student needs understanding, community partnerships, and employee development.