Paige Baade

This implementation plan outlines the strategic direction for Dakota College at Bottineau, focusing on adapting to the evolving educational landscape to empower students and positively impact communities. The plan is structured around three core priorities: Student Success, which aims to guide students academically and holistically; Community Commitment, focused on articulating college identity, expanding community programs, and enhancing relationships; and Institutional Improvement, dedicated to fostering a passionate team culture, refining processes, and upgrading facilities and technology.

The Dakota College at Bottineau Implementation Plan for 2025-2026 focuses on student success, community commitment, and institutional improvement. Key areas include guiding students academically, investing in their overall development, articulating college identity, aligning community programs, enhancing community relationships, fostering a passionate team culture, modifying processes to enhance services, and improving facilities and technology.

The Dakota College at Bottineau Implementation Plan for 2024-2025 focuses on adapting to the changing education landscape to empower students and impact communities. Key priorities include student success through individualized advising, resource training, and support services; community commitment by articulating college identity, expanding workforce programs, and enhancing community relationships; and institutional improvement by developing a team approach, modifying processes to enhance services, and improving institutional facilities and technology.

The document reports on enrollment management efforts by Dakota College at Bottineau (DCB) as essential for institutional planning. It highlights initiatives since 2009 to enhance student re-enrollment, implement a First Year Sequence program, design developmental coursework, establish an early warning system, and offer a summer Math Bootcamp. The plan also includes advising days, a Certificate in College Studies program, additional staffing in financial aid and business offices, mental health counseling, increased campus safety, residence hall modernization, and career and technical education programs in Minot. Furthermore, it focuses on a First Year Experience program, collaboration with the International Peace Garden, a prior learning program, an honors program, professional graphics design, grant writing, developmental education courses, transition programs, new career and technical education programs, increased scholarship awards, campus environment enhancement, institutional research, community activities, and online learning program improvements. The goal is to stabilize and grow enrollment by strengthening the institution and ensuring it meets its mission.

The 2015-2020 Strategic Plan for Dakota College at Bottineau focuses on providing a quality education in a caring environment, emphasizing diversity, personal enrichment, and engaged learning for employment and university transfer. Key areas of focus include liberal arts education, career/technical education, distance delivery, community education, support services, campus activities, campus outreach, and workforce training and development. The plan aims to improve learning and services through ongoing assessment, enhance extra- and co-curricular offerings, provide relevant curricula, develop the institution's focus on nature, technology, and beyond, utilize campus resources, enhance residential life, develop learning partnerships, promote global awareness, and foster an innovative culture. Specific goals include improving affordability, developing new curriculums, improving student persistence and completion rates, and developing collaborative arrangements with other institutions. The plan also addresses facility renovations and the development of a strategic enrollment management plan.