VISION VISION

The Vision Statement for NSCC’s new Strategic Plan is:

This vision re-centers the college’s mission around the realities of the 2020s. The focus on life outcomes re-engages with the goals students and their families bring to the pursuit of higher education and with the community’s expectations of the college. Committing to consistently excellent outcomes recognizes both that our success rates are not high enough and that the regional economy is short of the well-educated professionals employers need NSCC to provide. Pledging equity in those outcomes assumes responsibility for the equity gaps the college’s students experience here and the resulting inequities that follow them through life, affecting the communities the college serves.

Global metrics will track the college’s progress toward this vision. These metrics include lead indicators, or formative metrics designed to track early progress towards planning goals, and lag indicators, which measure longer term, or summative, outcomes. Global metrics include

• 4-year degree completion after transfer, disaggregated by race/ethnicity/ gender/age (lag)

First-Year Retention of all new students, disaggregated by race/ethnicity/gender/age (lead)

– Degree/certificate completion, disaggregated by race/ethnicity/gender/age (lead)

– Transfer rate, grad/non-grad, disaggregated by race/ethnicity/ gender/age (lead)

• Employment earnings, disaggregated by race/ethnicity/gender/age (lag)

– Non-Traditional (pre/post college completion)

– High School Graduate (1 & 5 years post college completion)

• Student loan debt at graduation, disaggregated by race/ethnicity/ gender/age (lag)