Lynn Giese

This document outlines Columbus State Community College's significant institutional transformations and the launch of a new strategic planning process in 2012. The plan focuses on student success and credential attainment, driven by Achieving the Dream principles. Key strategic pillars include enhancing access, improving college readiness, promoting student success and attainment, fostering workforce development, and maximizing economic impact. The college aims to increase student completion rates and close achievement gaps through data analysis, continuous improvement initiatives, and robust partnerships with K-12 districts, other higher education institutions, employers, and community agencies.

This College Completion Plan serves as an institutional roadmap to student success, guiding the college toward better student outcomes with a comprehensive vision focused on equitable student outcomes, student success, and transformation. Aligned with the 2023 Strategic Plan, it outlines guiding principles to increase degree, certificate, and credential completion, close equity gaps, and boost graduates in in-demand career pathways (Advanced Manufacturing, Computer Science, and Health Sciences). Strategic priorities include improving gateway course success, optimizing course schedules, implementing proactive program advising, and fostering institutional growth for the Delaware Campus and adult students. The plan details key metrics for credit completion, gateway course completion, student persistence, and overall degree/certificate attainment by 2027, aiming to operationalize these strategies through rigorous data analysis and collaborative efforts to ensure student success and community transformation.

This Systems Portfolio outlines Columbus State Community College's comprehensive processes and performance results across key areas, including helping students learn, accomplishing distinctive objectives, understanding student and stakeholder needs, and valuing people. The college's mission is 'To educate and inspire, providing our students with the opportunity to achieve their goals,' guided by eight crucial values and a vision to be 'Central Ohio's front door to higher education and a leader in advancing our region's prosperity.' The document details the ongoing strategic planning process, initiated in October 2011 and with mission, vision, and values approved in January 2013, which identifies three strategic goals: Student Success and Attainment, Workforce Development, and Civic Engagement.

This document outlines Columbus State Community College's college-wide priorities and strategic conversations, focusing on advancing student success and institutional effectiveness. Key pillars include student success and attainment, financial planning, and a regional strategy for college completion through the Central Ohio Compact. The plan emphasizes continuous improvement, data-driven decisions, stakeholder engagement, and achieving a vision of dramatically improved student success by 2021, specifically targeting a 60% completion goal and addressing diverse student needs.

This Campus Completion Plan outlines a systemic improvement strategy for institution-wide policy and practice changes designed to directly enhance student persistence and completion. Key strategic pillars include building academic and career pathways for students prior to higher education entry, optimizing the first-year experience and student advising, strengthening student success strategies to promote equitable outcomes, fostering an empowered culture through culturally responsive teaching and faculty development, and collaborating with employers to align curriculum with workforce needs.