State College
PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE
JAN l FEB 2021
VO LUME 5, NO. 01
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Northwest Florida State College’s call to action in 2021 is to promote engagement in the classroom, on our campuses and around the community. Led by our commitment to improve lives throughout the region, we are leaning into the new year with great anticipation for continued success and excellence. Using the word ENGAGE as our focus, six actionable targets will guide our efforts:
- ELEVATE - NURTURE - GENERATE - ADVANCE - GUARANTEE - EMPOWER
We are striving to ELEVATE educational attainment and our service territory (Okaloosa and Walton counties) to a region of prominence by raising expectations that NWF State College is the first choice for higher education and vital to the success of the Northwest Florida region. We offer accessible, affordable and relevant programming via multiple learning methods. Through innovative partnerships with business and industry, we are equipping the local workforce with valuable credentials and infusing that talent back into the community. To NURTURE a culture of inclusiveness and diversity, we are diligently pursuing a college family where differences are valued, treatment is equitable, and individuals feel empowered to effect change. This creates an environment which allows everyone to reach their full potential; provides multiple perspectives and delivers better performance outcomes. (continued on next page)
SHELTER HOUSE Members of the 2020-2021 PLA class packed and delivered food bag donations to local charity, Shelter House in December.
The 2020-2021 President’s Leadership Academy class challenged College employees to donate 30 meals to Shelter House in December. The response was generous, with enough donations to provide 50 meals to the charity as well as several boxes of bib lettuce from the culinary department’s greenhouse production and many
additional non-perishable items. “We are incredibly grateful to the President’s Leadership Academy for their partnership this holiday season,” said Rosalyn Wik, Executive Director of Shelter House. “It was a tough year for so many people, especially the survivors we serve, but the positive impact made by the PLA and Northwest Florida State College will be one that remains with Shelter House families long past the holiday season.”
NORTHWEST FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE CELEBRATES DIVERSITY, UNITY AND COMMUNITY
Empowering individuals to realize their unique potential is a transformational gift. Equal rights and respecting the dignity of every person is a must and something that should not be taken for granted or assumed. We must always remain open to people and ideas. We all benefit when we embrace differences and expand inclusion. People succeed by helping others improve their lives and at Northwest Florida State College we are seeking solutions that truly help every person rise. In the poignant words of the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, Amanda Gorman:
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e are striving to forge a union with purpose To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man And so we lift our gazes not to what stands between us but what stands before us We close the divide because we know, to put our future first, we must first put our differences aside
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