SCF Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness Issues

 

Other Broad Areas

ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

• Build/improve developmental learning labs
• Create a teaching assistance center
• Introduce supplemental instruction to all courses
• Expand curriculum (to better meet workforce needs)
• Develop an "early warning" system for at-risk students and courses
• Create internship/externship/fieldwork opportunities for students in all majors
• Support region specific research by faculty and students
• Provide support for student experiential learning opportunities
• Strengthen 2+2 programs
• Test student "Exit Competencies"
• Improve class scheduling
• Distance Learning
• Course/curriculum development
• For the community which we serve, provide future teachers and professionals in other areas which are in demand
• For our students, recognize their different learning styles, and also recognize and respond to the fact that they access and process information differently from the way we did/do. At the same time, they cannot evaluate the information they do access, and often, they lack the critical thinking skills to apply the information they get
• Improve developmental education curriculum
• Increase students' pass rate on the CLAST
• Develop an assessment driven curriculum (open entry and exit)
• Offer a full array of Internet-based courses
• Implement academic program review
• Strengthen existing programs
• Increase faculty interaction with students
• Increase faculty research contributions
• Have faculty become more involved with student advising activities
• Develop shorter term courses
• Increase Certificate offerings
• Offer baccalaureate degrees
• Strengthen links between SCF and the SUS
• Increase curriculum for A.S and A.A.S. degrees
• Increase faculty caring for student progress
• Promote active learning teaching strategies
• Redesign the faculty evaluation instrument
• Require a minimum technology competency of students
• Expand high-end computer training offerings (i.e. certifications)
• Focus on project-based learning
• Increase use of student portfolio (traditional and electronic)
• Continue to develop vocational curriculum/programs
• Emphasize credit and noncredit workforce development programming
• Offer more mini- and short-courses (variable class scheduling)
• Conduct needs analyses to help determine new program offerings
• Reduce excess credit hours
• Improve student success rates in all high-risk courses
• Expand weekend offerings

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

• Continue to support high cost programs (info tech, nursing, dental hygiene)
• Furniture upgrades
• Establish a learning site in downtown Sarasota [emphasize building this market]
• Have continuous Food Service from 7:00 a.m. through 8:00 p.m. (both campuses)
• Negotiate/acquire one hundred acres at Lakewood Ranch for future campus expansion
• Retain the gymnasium facility at the Venice campus and develop programs and rental opportunities to enhance use
• Build a Center for Economic/Workforce Development on Venice Campus to house classrooms, technology rooms for training, seminars, workshops, institutes, elder hostel, and similar noncredit, community development programs
• Improve student retention
• Continue to emphasize the importance of customer service
• Build assessment program
• Increase external funding (grants)
• Continue to be data-driven (in making managerial decisions)
• Alumni Affairs - build office / department
• Implementation of a student-centered system
• The Lakewood Ranch Technology Center
• Build additional V-Tel classrooms
• On a broad and general level, making SCF more learning-centered, more student-oriented
• For immediate and long range planning, consider declining budgets in education
• For the care and training of the faculty, noticing the changes in health issues (stress, lifestyle, etc.)
• Responding to the "graying of the faculty" taking place here and in the system in general
• Making SCF a wonderful place to work (morale and salary)
• For the academic community of which we are a part, staying current on national and local trends and needs
• For a larger learning community, setting up a distance learning program so that we are really a "click and brick" institution
• For the students, establish a learning site in downtown Sarasota and provide more 2+2 opportunities at all learning sites
• Fund ongoing mission critical activities, e.g. V-Tel, Distance Learning, etc.
• Focus on initiatives that pay the biggest dividends with appropriate human, technology and funding support
• Develop Institutional Effectiveness Plan
• Track employer satisfaction with SCF graduates
• Increase performance on state-mandated Accountability Measures
• Develop more off-campus teaching locations
• Continue to share SCF performance information with the faculty
• Secure additional external funding
• Increase involvement in State-level lobbying
• Finish updating College Rules and Procedures
• Release low- and non-contributing personnel
• Continue to solicit input on major college decisions
• Build FACC membership/programming
• Adopt practices from the business world - in all areas of college operations
• Work on relationships with state legislature and local representatives
• Cut the number of full-time personnel (faculty and staff)
• Continue to invest in technology
• Provide incentives for innovation
• Improve campus communications
• Improve college advertising / promotional efforts
• Strengthen college publications
• Become more involved in the community
• Develop partnerships with local businesses
• Use program-specific advertising
• Increase presence at community events
• Market to SCF internally
• Continue to improve campus safety
• Lobby for equitable budgeting model to be adopted for community colleges
• Establish a philosophy of management (direction with clear goals)
• Improve flow of downward communication
• Establish regular meetings between program managers and the President
• Clean up database mailing addresses (Open Campus)
• Conduct institutional research directed specifically at Open Campus
• Determine how to deploy teaching equipment to off-campus locations
• Create SCF philosophy statement, guiding principles, mission and vision statements
• Improve horizontal and vertical communication
• Free up restrictions on SPD form
• Continue focus on quality and continuous improvement
• Create a culture of assessment and accountability
• Expand college marketing for student recruitment/retention
• Bring all College Rules and Procedures up to date
• Improve internal communications
• Strengthen the one-college orientation
• Promote innovation
• Participate in collaborative relationships for regional economic development

PHYSICAL PLANT

• Updating facilities infrastructure (including grounds)
• Invest in additional landscaping
• Make sure all buildings are in compliance with codes
• Construct covered walkways for Venice Campus
• Site development/enhancement
• Install utility conservation measures
• Add directories to all buildings
• Update campus signage
• Campus renovation projects
• Improve parking lots (add more parking)
• Fix campus drainage
• Lakeside Ranch development
• Improve campus lighting
• Construct additional classroom/laboratory building
• Widen walkways
• Renovate and remodel:
  • Student Union
  • Administration Building
  • Art Building
  • 5A & 5B
  • Facilities Buildings
  • Open Campus Buildings
• Install temperature controls in all buildings

SCF FOUNDATION

• Design, build and/or remodel facilities to house impressive office/conference rooms(s) for the SCF Foundation on each campus
• Begin a capital campaign
• Find ways to express appreciation to volunteers
• Increase internal donor base
• Work on "naming" opportunities
• Link Foundation plans to College plans
• Implement an effective financial reporting system
• Strengthen Foundation procedures and policies
• Increase participation rate in annual fund
• Determine why past donors no longer give
• Increase Foundation Board participation in events at both campuses
• Build up Planned Giving program

HUMAN RESOURCES

• Bring salaries to market level (a recruitment and retention issue)
• Meet professional development needs of SCF employees
• Recruit and retain minorities (faculty/staff)
• Employee Development - TOPS Program
• Increase diversity in all areas
• Increase faculty and staff participation in developmental programs
• Increase the diversity in the pool of candidates for faculty and staff openings
• Find additional ways to help adjuncts get more involved with students
• Improve on institutional morale
• Review all position descriptions for accuracy (desk audit)
• Implement a zero-tolerance for inappropriate employee behavior
• Improve employee benefit plan
• Consider using "floaters" for vacant positions
• Clean up job descriptions
• Strengthen employee orientation program
• Strengthen faculty/staff orientation program
• Strengthen employee evaluation process
• Strive to be competitive in salary and benefits for employees
• Increase diversity among faculty and staff
• Continue to seek ways to improve campus morale
• Increase the use of non-dollar incentive programs
• Develop a merit-based compensation system
• Decrease turn around time in employee recruitment
• Develop a minority recruitment plan
• Improve employee benefits program
• Strengthen relationship between HR and Career Employees

LIBRARY

• Expand Library collection
• Enhance e-book collection
• Increase connectivity to databases
• Extend services
• Strengthen Information Literacy instructional program
• Make Information Literacy instruction available to all classes/students
• Expand database access (digital archives)
• Network microfiche/microfilm collection
• Expand DVD collection
• Increase availability of e-book readers
• Upgrade library instructional room
• Renovate library facilities
• Expand reference resources
• Improve Library web site

STUDENT SERVICES

• Accommodate the full needs of dual enrollment students
• Improve student advising system [on-line info on schedule, degree requirements]
• House permanent assessment/testing centers on both campuses in a centrally located facility that houses all labs
• Reestablish Club time for both campuses (e.g., Thursdays 12:30-1:00 and Wednesdays 5:00-5:30)
• Student recruitment
• A central testing center to handle testing needs of classes with a nontraditional format
• Decrease barriers to entry for potential students
• Improve student advising
• Centralize student learning laboratories
• Strengthen SCF's relationship with local high schools
• Reexamine the viability of the athletic program
• Continue to work on on-line registration system
• Establish relationships with service area middle schools
• Become more student friendly
• Reeducate advisors (need to have same information)
• Improve customer service
• Cross-train personnel
• Train advisors consistently
• Reduce wait time
• Better develop unit/divisional systems and procedures
• Increase availability of laptop hookups for student computers (all over campus)
• Make more printers available for student use (even if it is a pay service)
• Create additional recreational/social on-campus opportunities for students
• Consider creating a student game room
• Enhance communication of financial opportunities (scholarships, financial aid) to students
• Create a "family" of brochures
• Upload "identical" software on all campus student-use computers
• Move to web-based services (registration, advising, financial aid, etc.)
• Begin student services program review
• Develop a career development plan

TECHNOLOGY

• Upgrade College web site (and Intranet)
• Upgrading distance learning capabilities
• Keeping current with information technologies (hardware & software)
• Upgrade all classrooms with full multimedia capability
• Linking (via Internet) SCF to all regional high schools
• Link SCF via V-Tel to region HS/major employers (course delivery)
• Systems Upgrade (SCT Banner)
• Full function Web Site
• Implementation of Web for Students, Web for Faculty and Web for Employees tied into the new Student Centered System
• Infrastructure enhancements. My definition of infrastructure include: 1) Buildings; 2) Network wiring within the buildings; 3) Network connectivity between buildings; 4) Network connectivity between campuses; 5) Network connectivity with the outside world (Internet); 6) Appropriate computer hardware and software to support the College's Mission; and 7) Appropriate support staff
• Upgrade computer labs
• Continue to develop Intranet
• Explore wireless connectivity options
• Increase access to Internet and Intranet
• Remain current in technology applications
• Increase training in Banner and Crystal Reports
• Construct additional V-Tel classrooms

Other broad areas that merit consideration:

1. Auxiliary Enterprises
2. Financial/Business Affairs
3. Governance Structure
4. Institutional Image
5. Public Service
6. Research
7. Student Financial Aid
8. Tuition Pricing

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