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Strategic Priority #3

Build Community

Commitment— Create a climate where internal stake holders feel included, valued, empowered and seen, by taking ownership of goals and performance

Strategic Intentions:

Revitalize a positive, mutually supportive and caring Barstow Community College that sustains a sense of belonging and affirms the contributions of all members.
  1. Redefine institutional roles and boundaries to break down barriers that inhibit well- coordinated and nurturing support and focus on students.
  2. Establish processes and practices to on-board new staff and faculty providing support and learning opportunities and professional development.
  3. Provide an organizational structure that supports and rewards hard work, dedication and discipline, and creates upward mobility.
  4. Establish practices that acknowledge contributions to institutional and community goals and that celebrate our shared successes.
  5. Implement a comprehensive student achievement recognition program.
  6. Implement a comprehensive staff recognition program.
  7. Support college-wide professional development activities that advance institutional priorities and professional growth, and embraces all aspects of a professional learning organization
  8. Infuse educational programs with opportunities for students, faculty and staff to meaningfully participate in and enhance the greater Barstow Community.
  9. Encourage students, faculty and staff to continuously assess and identify opportunities for improvement and change, and to remove barriers to creative innovations that lead to institutional and educational effectiveness.
  10. Develop an internal culture that embraces the spirit and expression of innovation through intentional investment in learning college systems, to act as marketers and ambassadors for the college in the community.
Create an environment that supports and celebrates diversity by developing a cohesive and caring community
  1. Broaden and strengthen diversity and equity through outreach efforts and community service.
  2. Gather and use empirical evidence to analyze and improve access, advancement, climate, education, training, recruitment, contracting, hiring and retention of historically under- served populations of students, faculty and staff.
  3. Internationalize and infuse equity language into all college curriculum and documents to create globally aware and culturally intelligent students, staff and faculty.
  4. Continue to support Basic Needs by appropriately supporting the food pantry and providing resources for students with housing insecurity needs.
  5. Support student success through student engagement, leadership and co-curricular opportunities, frequent opportunities for interaction with faculty and staff, top-notch student services, discipline-wide systems of learning assessment and accountability, and other opportunities and support mechanisms for personal and intellectual growth.
Invest in Continuous Professional Development for faculty and staff
  1. Develop culturally astute and responsive leaders in their respective fields, who model collaborative thinking in their work with students, and community members and partners.
  2. Provide support for faculty and staff in developing digital fluency to effectively learn, interpret, analyze, construct, communicate information and teach in a digitally connected world
  3. Continue to develop online learning strategies to include full degree and certificate programs, access to current technology, and a flexible and comprehensive suite of online support for faculty towards better services for students.

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