STRATEGIC PLAN 2023-26 I COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS
PARTICIPATION IN PLANNING To be effective, planning requires the entire campus community to work together to integrate efforts in service of our students. As described in the Decision Making Guide, individual academic departments and administrative units play a central role in driving college-wide planning and budget development, program development, and other services. At the same time, departmental plans are influenced by college plans, reflecting institutional focus goals and priorities. Every department, both instructional and administrative, completes Program Planning and Review every three years with annual updates. Together, the nexus of these planning efforts is part of the College’s comprehensive and integrated planning processes that support ongoing progress and improvement.
DEVELOPING THE STRATEGIC PLAN California Community Colleges continue to experience new challenges each year and disruptive structural shifts due to perpetual changes in statewide leadership and initiatives. These external influences, plus volatile funding methodologies, create an ongoing urgency for College of the Canyons to focus our planning on actionable impacts, doubling down on our commitment to student success. Accordingly, the Strategic Plan focuses on the three primary goals of Access, Engagement, and Success, which are built respectively upon the successful institutional foundations of planning noted in the introduction. These three goals demonstrate a resolve to focus on student success and confirm that COC remains at the forefront of change with integrated planning efforts that both evolve and anticipate the needs of our students. The college utilizes reliable college-wide planning processes, which produce numerous plans including the Strategic Plans, 8 PAGE I STRATEGIC PLAN 2023-26
Educational and Facilities Master Plans, Technology Master Plans, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) plans, FiveYear Construction Plans, Enrollment Management plans, and individual unit plans. Operational planning is driven by the college’s Strategic Plan, revised every three years, and the strategic goals and institutional foundations are used by all college divisions, departments, and work units to develop specific unit objectives that help determine the short-term directions and future plans of the district.
