Everett Community College

The board meeting agenda includes a President's update featuring student recognitions, an executive session regarding employment qualifications and legal matters, and board action items concerning the student housing fee structure and exceptional faculty. Informational items scheduled for discussion include a global education and social justice update, a preliminary budget review, a first review of draft board bylaws, and an enrollment report.

The Strategic Plan for Everett Community College aims to provide quality education, encourage students to achieve their educational goals, and prepare them to be lifelong learners and responsible community members. It focuses on ensuring equal access to educational opportunities, maintaining high standards in instructional programs and student services, promoting a supportive campus community characterized by mutual support and open communication, encouraging diversity, collegiality, and professionalism, and collaborating with regional businesses, agencies, schools, and universities. The vision is to establish the College as the academic, technical, and cultural center of learning for the region, with intended student outcomes including active learning, critical thinking, effective communication, participation in diverse environments, information literacy, and technology proficiency.

This strategic plan for Everett Community College focuses on four primary pillars: Belonging, Student-Ready, Sustainability, and Career-Connected. It aims to create an equitable and supportive campus culture by enhancing social and academic integration, expanding access to learning opportunities and student services, ensuring responsible resource management with an emphasis on equity and social justice, and fostering career-connected educational experiences to meet student aspirations and community needs.

Everett Community College's strategic framework is designed to create a better world by fostering student success. Its mission is to educate, equip, and inspire each student to achieve personal and professional goals, contribute to diverse communities, and thrive in a global society. The plan is built upon core themes of Student Success, Innovation and Leadership, Community Connections and Partnerships, and Cultural Pluralism and Global Readiness. Strategic priorities include providing guidance for college completion and career readiness, strengthening community engagement and partnerships, developing cultural competencies for global participation, promoting innovative learning and technology, and ensuring financial stability and responsible resource stewardship.

Everett Community College aims to provide quality education in an atmosphere that encourages all students to achieve their educational goals, preparing them to be lifelong learners and responsible community members. As the academic, technical, and cultural center for the region, the college's strategic initiatives focus on enhancing institutional effectiveness by attracting and retaining diverse, high-performing staff and faculty, increasing access and retention for underserved populations, and expanding baccalaureate-level degree opportunities. Furthermore, the college is committed to developing distinguished programs in healthcare, advanced technology, sciences, entrepreneurship, and visual arts, offering innovative learning experiences in various modes, and supporting educational programs that cultivate a globally aware and diverse student body and workforce.