Georgia Highlands College

This document outlines the strategic initiatives for Georgia Highlands College, aiming to guide its direction over a multi-year period. Key priorities include decentralizing student services, implementing a comprehensive fundraising strategy, and developing a robust budget process aligned with institutional goals. The plan also focuses on capacity planning through maximizing existing space, expanding e-learning programs, and potential campus expansion to accommodate 10,000 students by 2015. Further initiatives involve human capital development, enhancing student success through various programs, optimizing marketing and recruitment efforts, improving internal communications, and establishing intercollegiate athletics to increase visibility and student engagement. Additionally, the college seeks approval for a four-year limited mission status to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing by 2020 to address healthcare workforce shortages.

This document outlines the strategic priorities for Georgia Highlands College from 2021 to 2026. The plan is structured around four key pillars: enhancing access and opportunity, fostering inclusivity and engagement, ensuring student success through high-quality academic and support services, and improving institutional efficiency and effectiveness through data-informed decision-making and robust planning.

This document presents a comprehensive SWOT analysis, identifying internal strengths such as student-centric care, efficient faculty, and affordability, alongside internal weaknesses including thin staffing, employee retention challenges, and communication inefficiencies. It further outlines external opportunities like workforce rebuilding, collaboration, and innovative degree offerings, while addressing external threats such as funding constraints, employee burnout, and enrollment declines.

The Quality Enhancement Plan, "Quest for Success," for Georgia Highlands College, aims to enhance student academic and personal success by prioritizing holistic advising. It employs a two-pronged approach: providing students with ongoing, goal-focused advising that considers cognitive and non-cognitive factors, and implementing intensive professional development and training for faculty and staff advisors. The plan seeks to improve the student experience by fostering self-direction, decision-making skills, and academic planning through a structured advising process and the creation of individualized success plans, ultimately leading to increased persistence and success rates.

The Information Technology Strategic Plan for Georgia Highlands College (GHC) outlines a technology roadmap aimed at optimizing IT resources to meet the future needs of faculty, staff, and students. Key areas of focus include diversifying technology platforms to reduce reliance on single vendors, optimizing software license usage to eliminate redundancies and reduce costs, and migrating on-premises services to multiple cloud vendors for scalability and enhanced security. The plan emphasizes innovation, collaboration, and efficiency to enhance the college experience and align with GHC's mission.