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Welcome

This Week

• Jam-packed day and week

• Both serious and fun, required and desired

• Intros of new people at today’s lunch

• Start with highlights and strategic plan

Communications and Marketing• myUCC

• Digital signage network

• Redesigned webpages

• Digital campus calendar

• Transfer video

• UCC Fast Facts

• Self-service marketing items (PowerPoint, letterhead, brochure, poster, flyer, email sig) – go to myUCC, Resources

• Award winning video

UCC Inside-Out Campus Tour

Award-winning video!! Kudos to C&M!!

OERs*

UCC had the third highest estimated savings in textbook cost among the seventeen Oregon community colleges

*Free and accessible teaching, learning and research resources that can be legally adapted and redistributed for students’ use at low or no cost

Nursing

NCLEX pass rate of 90.7% last year, three percentage points above the national average

UCC Skills USA

State Champs and National Qualifiers:Welding (Nazario Ferguson) Automotive Service Technology (Matt Chace)

Highest rate of GED Completion

UCC rate: 34%; State average: 14%

Performing Arts Studio

Wayne Crooch 20; theatre classes, dance classes, black box theater; donor funded

Admissions Office

1 recruitment coordinator, 3 enrollment advisors, 1 educational partnership coordinator; funded from one-time student success state $

Enrollment Actions• C&M: New Student Lead Workflow,

student success stories, Getting Started redesign, transfer animated video, campus tour video

• Bus: SNAP benefits in Bookstore

• IT: AdvisorTrac, Degree Works, labs

• Adv: Scholarships, grants

• EM: tracking students, Allied Health, Soar to Success, transition guide, recruitment events, orientation

• Library: OERs, tutoring, early alerts

• SS: advising, career coach

• IR: data, data, data

• Facilities: upgrades, grounds

• Faculty: summer recruitment

• Academics: math pathway, scheduling logistics, gen ed revision, assessments, FYS/FYE, curriculum mapping, academic structure, streamlining course offerings

• AND MORE

• Athletics: Fall 2016: 44Fall 2017: 92Fall 2018: 148

• Enrollment is trendinggreen over last year

% Increase over Last Year

In the green for over a month!

Ready to Play Ball

• Refinished floor with new lines, wording, and logo• New LED lights

Champs on and off court

• WBCA Academic Top 25 Honor Roll• #5 in country for CCs for women’s BB team GPA - #6 last year• Highest in program history; only college in top 25 from OR

Fitness Center Update

New treadmills, free weight workout stations, stationary bike; $35 per term employee membership

Governance

Article

• “Exactly What Is Shared Governance”

Governance meeting

• 4:15 p.m. today

• Council member required

• All invited

• HNSC 201/202

Assessment of Governance

• Clarify roles

• Modify structure

• Communicate with campus

• Communicate within councils

• Modify policy approval process

• Modify council membership

• Flex meeting times

• Set annual goals

AccreditationAccreditation Cycle• The mid cycle accreditation

report and ad hoc report will be submitted this spring.

• Mid-cycle report: assessment of mission fulfillment

• Ad hoc report: five recommendations from year seven visit

• Site visit: April 18-19

Accreditation Committee• Members: Jason Aase, Jessica

Richardson, Becky Kipperman, Steve Rogers, Vincent Rose, Debbie Gresham, Carol McGeehon, Dan Wright, Shauna McNulty, Joseph Villa, Brenda Lewis, Kacy Crabtree.

• Please work with the committee when needed, requested, or if you have any questions regarding

accreditation.

Blue Zones

• Community-wide well-being initiative that makes healthy choices easier in all the places we live, work, and play

• Learn more: Bistro, 10:30 a.m., Wednesday

• UCC applying to be a Blue Zones work site

The Power 9

FISH! Philosophy & Program

• The FISH! Philosophy is a proven way to find joy and energy in our work.

• When a team lives four simple practices, it builds trust, teamwork, appreciation and accountability.

• Generously funded by UCC Foundation as a strategic enterprise

• Inclusive• Incremental• Systematic• Sustained

Strategic Plan

• Process

• Review by campus and Board of Education

• Feedback by September 30

• Board approval on October 10?

• SP info online:

>myUCC

>Governance

>Institutional

Effectiveness

Council

SWOT Analysis

STRENGTHS

• Location

• Specialized Programs

• People

• Value

WEAKNESSES

• Internal Processes

• Marketing

• Campus Cultural History

• Facilities

• Overreach

SWOT Analysis cont.

OPPORTUNITIES

• Student Housing

• Marketing

• Transfer

• Partnerships

• Programs

• Technology

THREATS

• Enrollment

• State funding

• Competing choices

• External perceptions/ marketing

Surveys

• Community members, students, employees

• Social media with help from ESD, school districts, TFFF

• 4 on-site forums (Roseburg, Winston, Sutherlin, Myrtle Creek)

• 568 Responses

– 96 employees• 45 classified

• 36 faculty

• 15 administrators

– 112 students

– 360 community (~35% never attended UCC)

SURVEY: Strengths – Top 3

• Community: Location, affordability, range of programs

• Students: Faculty, staff, location

• Employees: Faculty, staff, location

SURVEY: Improvements–Top 3

• Community: More academic offerings (including more online), reduced cost, better advising

• Students: More academic offerings (including more online), reduced cost, better advising

• Employees: Communication, change management, processes

SURVEY: Barriers – Top 3

• Community: Cost, transportation, advising

• Students: Advising, scheduling, cost

• Employees: Admission and registration processes, advising, transportation

Draft Strategic Plan

• Vision, mission, values, and core themes

• Goals, objectives, intended outcomes, actions, and indicators/metrics

• After review and endorsement, add responsibilities, timeline, budget

Goal 1: Improve institutional climate, culture and efficiency

• Create positive, welcoming, respectful culture

• Improve efficiency and effectiveness of operations

• Apply equity lens to all operations

Goal 2: Increase innovative and specialized academic programming

• Streamline, strengthen, and expand academic programs

• Implement innovative models of program delivery and content

• Expand workforce training options

• Enhance applied learning experiences

Goal 3: Implement an enrollment management plan

• Recruit a wide range of students

• Improve registration and advising processes

• Ensure that all students have equitable access to learning and to academic support services

Goal 4: Improve integration of the College with the community

• Create an alumni relations program

• Make UCC the go-to place for cultural events and athletic competitions

• Develop relationships with business and industry

A word about metrics

• Need to measure

• Challenge to measure

• Percentages vs numbers

• Indirect measures

Review Questions

• Are the goals, objectives, actions, and metrics the ones that will strategically place us in a strong position? Help us achieve our vision of innovation?

• Do the goals and objectives incorporate findings from the SWOT analysis and the community, employee, and student surveys?

• Are the objectives sufficiently challenging yet achievable?

Next steps

• Review in department meetings and individually

• Where can you find the SP draft?

• Pass along suggestions for improvement (through Robynne) by September 30.

• Board approval on October 10?

Stand, Stretch, Stay, Sit!!