1. ECC Excels
ECC’s Strategic Plan

2. Strategic Plan Focus Areas
Access
Completion
Engagement
Operations
Success
Strategic Plan Focus Areas

3. Excels: Targets Enrollment: Moderate increase of 1.4% annually
Faculty/Staff Diversity: Increase in faculty minority rate from 10.1% to 18.4%
Retention: Increase from 53.5% to 62%
Graduation: Increase from 19.4% to 24.8% in the 3- year graduation rate
Degrees Awarded: Increase from 2,474 to 2,800 by
Time-to-Degree: Decrease from 4.01 years to years
Improvements in Student Financial Literacy, START- UP NY Rollout, Increased Philanthropy, etc.
Excels: Targets

4. Collaboration: Task Forces and Work Groups
Timeline and Process
Collaboration: Task Forces and Work Groups
Winter
Spring 2015
Summer 2015
Fall-Winter
Summer 2016
Scan
Environmental Scan
Review of Internal Assessments
Philosophy
Planning Principles
Mission and Vision
Data Review
SUNY Excels
Local Analysis
Plan Draft
Goals
Initiatives
Implementation
Operational Plan
Reporting

5. Collaboration: Task Forces and Work Groups
Board of Trustees
IPA Committee – Faculty and Senior Executives
Strategic Plan Working Group – All Bargaining Groups Invited
College Senate – Broad Representation
Task Forces – All Bargaining Groups Currently Engaged
Collaboration: Task Forces and Work Groups

6. Collaboration: 5 Task Forces and 29 Work Groups
Access
Accessibility, Cost, Curriculum, Distance Learning, Employee Diversity, Intake, Non-Credit/High School, Recruitment
Completion
Communication, Completion, Data, Distance Learning Success, Intake, Support
Engagement
Civic Engagement, College Climate, Employee and Student Engagement, Philanthropy, Staff and Faculty Development, Workforce Development
Operations
Administrative Processes, Facilities, Finance, Technology
Success
Applied Learning, Financial Literacy, Multicultural Experiences, Successful Transfer, Workforce Success/Job Linkage
Collaboration: 5 Task Forces and 29 Work Groups

7. Major Issues Being Discussed: Access
Testing incoming students for college readiness
Establishing a rational tuition plan
Expand use of OER
Streamlined Intake Structure
Increased access to support services for DL students
Establish online advisement
Adoption of SUNY Diversity Task Force recommendations
Reform of incoming transcript workflow
Major Issues Being Discussed: Access

8. Major Issues Being Discussed: Completion
Establishing a comprehensive communication matrix for faculty and students to promote student completion
Pushing out more critical communication to students
Requiring the use of by students
Improving the capacity of advisors to participate in student completion
Expand online tutoring for DL students
Grow DL program capacity to assist with instructional design
Adoption of OSCQR for DL courses
New graduation procedures
More college readiness training during intake period
Increased use of Starfish throughout the institution; e.g., Collegewide rollout of electronic attendance tool
Improvements to academic and financial aid probation/dismissal processes
Improved career counseling at intake
Development of academic success plans for students
Study of late admissions; consideration of late start term or other solutions;
Major Issues Being Discussed: Completion

9. Success: Default Rates

10. Success: Default Rates

11. Major Issues Being Discussed: Success
Increased use of transfer, employment, and wage data to track students after they leave ECC; increased engagement by academic departments in post-ECC success measures
Establishment of Civic Engagement Center; expanding collaboration between Career Resource Center and Applied Learning entities (Service Learning, Internships, etc.)
Increased programming around multicultural experiences with an eye toward college climate improvements
Increased use of SUNY Smart Track to improve financial literacy
Improved communication between CRC and academic departments
Major Issues Being Discussed: Success