Brigitte Bruna

This strategic plan for Highland Community College outlines a clear path for the next five years, aiming to advance student success, strengthen access, and maximize the institution's impact on its communities. It focuses on six strategic imperatives: nurturing student success and engagement, expanding access and affordability, enhancing learner success opportunities (including workforce and transfer pathways), boosting institutional innovation and agility, fostering a culture of belonging and collaboration, and ensuring stewardship and sustainability. The plan is designed to transform lives through education, position the college as a national model for rural-serving community colleges, and achieve enduring impact.

The strategic plan focuses on key priorities and goals for HCC. It aims to enhance institutional effectiveness and student success.

The 2016-2019 Highland Community College Strategic Plan outlines goals and initiatives across various areas, including improving online platforms, enhancing campus communication, fostering diversity and inclusion, engaging with the community and business partners, ensuring Title IX compliance, providing professional development, implementing a new employee orientation process, enhancing website usability, promoting academic integrity, assessing program outcomes, supporting student development, and improving resource allocation. The plan emphasizes continuous quality improvement, data-driven decision-making, and collaboration across departments to achieve its objectives. Specific initiatives include improving online learning environments, enhancing student resources, developing new evaluation tools for faculty and staff, expanding career services, and strengthening the college's financial position.

The strategic plan focuses on managing enrollment, strengthening local economics, and enhancing the quality of life. It aims to incorporate common learning outcomes, improve teaching and learning quality, enhance academic and non-academic assessment plans, and improve operational efficiency across all units. The plan also addresses increasing satisfaction for employees and students through various strategies, including equitable salary structures.

The Highland Community College Strategic Plan (2020-2023) focuses on improving institutional effectiveness, resources, and planning to fulfill its mission and enhance the quality of its educational offerings. Key areas of focus include ensuring ethical and responsible conduct, providing quality teaching and learning, evaluating and improving educational programs, and strengthening administrative structures and collaborative processes. The plan outlines specific goals and initiatives across various criteria, including mission articulation, integrity, teaching and learning, evaluation and improvement, and resource allocation. Outcomes aim to improve student retention, persistence, and completion rates; enhance program quality and learning goals; foster a diverse and inclusive campus climate; and strengthen the institution's financial stability and operational efficiency.