Radecka Appiah-Padi

This strategic plan outlines HACC's strategic direction for 2025-2028, focusing on four key commitments. These commitments are to reimagine employee success, reimagine student success, amplify HACC's impact through strategic partnerships, and ensure HACC's long-term sustainability. The plan aims to enhance employee growth and well-being, improve student outcomes and support, deepen community engagement and educational accessibility, and strengthen financial capacity, accountability, and technological infrastructure.

The 'Pathways to Success' strategic plan for HACC outlines a roadmap for 2022-2025, focusing on five core commitments. These include reimagining employee success through a supportive and diverse culture, enhancing student success by improving completion rates and leveraging technology, amplifying impact via strategic partnerships and community engagement, embracing next-generation teaching and learning with culturally relevant initiatives and accessible technologies, and ensuring long-term sustainability through financial management, data-informed decisions, and new revenue streams.

The HACC Strategic Plan 2022-25 focuses on several key commitments: reimagining employee success by creating a culture of care and belonging, ensuring a safe and secure workplace, and attracting a diverse workforce; reimagining student success by increasing student completion rates, defining student success through retention measurements, implementing pathways to bridge workforce development and credit programming, and leveraging technology to enhance accessibility; amplifying impact through strategic partnerships by ensuring systems support broader partnerships and aligning student needs through collaborative efforts; embracing next-generation teaching and learning by scaling culturally relevant initiatives and delivering accessible technologies; and ensuring long-term sustainability by advancing financial stability, strengthening data-informed decision-making, streamlining administrative processes, and developing new revenue streams.

The meeting included the creation of a Diversity and Inclusion Board of Trustees Standing Committee with Dr. Ortiz as chair. An expression of appreciation was given to Interim President Ronald R. Young for his 40 years of service. The President's report covered town hall meetings, the value proposition of HACC, and upcoming meetings with community leaders. A presentation on "A View On Imminent Trends For Classroom Delivery" was given, showcasing new smart-device applications for enhancing classroom experiences. Various personnel recommendations, appointments, and retirement items were discussed, along with financial reports, contract ratifications, and donations. An executive session was held to discuss pending litigation.

The board meeting included reports from the Finance Committee, approving contracts for a compensation and classification consultant and elevator modernization at the John Hall Technology Center. Presentations were given on the HACCYeah! program and HawkSOAR. The board approved College Policy 070 (Institutional Review Board) and the Title IX Policy. The president's report covered updates on the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging, a prison education program, the AI chatbot HAWKbot, email security, service desk performance, financial year-end activities, a technology grant, ongoing community engagement, and the development of pickleball courts. An executive session was held to discuss personnel matters.