The Strategic Planning Council is a college-wide body that involves every constituency associated with the college. The Council reviews and makes recommendations to the President regarding planning and action priorities at the campus and college-wide levels.
Members of the SPC are charged with the following responsibilities:
Review plans and the progress made in effecting them.
Communicate the status of the strategic and operational plans.
Provide input at various points of the planning process.
Propose any changes to the process of planning (including its relationship to budgeting and resource allocation).
Recommend revisions to the Strategic Plan.
Provide counsel to the President as requested.
The 2022-2027 Strategic Plan is at the heart of continuous improvement at the college. The Strategic Plan helps to link Operational Plans, assessment and evaluation, and the budgeting processes, and the Strategic Planning Council will continue to help with those linkages.
Each year, Cabinet members and their teams are asked to submit Operational Plans (OP) for the academic year. Operational Plans primarily impact day-to-day operations and can be carried out within the academic year or over several years. They are tied to the college’s Strategic Plan, Middle States standards and sometimes other national initiatives in which the college is involved (i.e., Achieving the Dream).
Cabinet members provide Operational Plan updates in January, June and August, and those updates are reviewed and discussed by the Strategic Planning Council. Operational Plans and updates are then posted to the college’s Strategic Planning and Office of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness webpages.
The college’s Strategic Objectives have been developed so that there is room for various conversations across departments and offices within each objective. Because the Strategic Objectives are broad in scope, instead of each objective having a specified Key Performance Indicator (KPI), the college will be utilizing the following seven KPI’s to determine whether the college community is meeting, exceeding or having challenges in achieving objectives.
Institutional data and metrics from SUNY, IPEDS, the Equity Scorecard and the like will be utilized when reviewing progress towards intended results.
