Derrick Bennett

This strategic plan outlines York Technical College's commitment to transforming lives and elevating communities through excellence in student success, aspiring to be a world-class model for future-ready education. It focuses on four main strategic themes: ensuring a seamless 'Front Porch Experience' through service, expanding workforce relevance and lifelong learning opportunities, fostering an empowered culture and community, and reimagining the campus as a connected, future-ready ecosystem. The overarching vision is to create an environment where every student and employee thrives through access, opportunity, relevant pathways, and immersive learning.

The strategic goals for York Technical College for 2025-2026 focus on increasing enrollment, improving student success rates, boosting the number of program completers, and ensuring high graduate placement rates. The primary indicators used to measure the college's effectiveness in achieving its mission include enrollment, retention, completion, and placement, which are regularly monitored to identify and address equity gaps and improve overall institutional quality.

The 2024-2034 Campus Master Plan Update for York Technical College focuses on creating an environment embodying values of Curiosity, Care, Courage, Centered on Strengths and Champions for Equity. It prioritizes interconnectedness, forming neighborhoods of similar programs and services, and aims to adapt to the evolving needs of industry, community, and college to remain at the forefront of education and innovation, with an emphasis on student success.

The 2024-25 strategic goals for York Technical College focus on improving key indicators of student success: enrollment, retention, completion, and placement. The college aims for a 2% annual increase in enrollment and completers, a 70% opening fall to opening fall success rate, and a 90% graduate placement rate. These goals reflect the college's mission to transform lives and elevate communities through excellence in student success. Regular monitoring of these indicators, including equity gap analysis, will inform adjustments to strategies for continuous improvement.

The Quality Learning Council meeting focused on several key proposals and updates. Discussion included the approval of the 2024-2025 Academic Calendar, considering alignment with school district breaks. Updates were provided on flex work initiatives, ongoing capital projects, cybersecurity measures, and recent audits. A proposal to integrate Reading 100 and English 032 into a new course, RWR 100, was approved, along with a proposal to replace Accuplacer with Edready as a placement methodology. The meeting concluded with a discussion of refining the QLC's mission and vision statement.