Environmental Scan

• Develop employment level, customer service, student outcome benchmarks and ratios and financial indicators to guide and support decision-making in the allocation of fiscal and human resource costs to all College functions.

• Create compensation, recognition and succession models to help the College attract new employees, and support employee retention and career advancement.

• Develop long and short-range capital improvement plans that will help guide capital expenditures and space utilization priorities, and maintain pace with capital depreciation models.

• Develop long-range financial planning models to support decision-making and the development of strategies to strengthen the College's financial position.

• Evaluate and implement models for the pricing of tuition, fees and service costs that encourage enrollment, retention and the use of College services and facilities.

• Develop long-range academic planning models to support decision-making and the development of strategies to ensure the currency and excellence of the College's curriculum, and related academic and student services.

• Establish an innovation fund to support the development of new programs and services that will advance the mission of the College.

• Target programs and services that can be implemented, enhanced or supported by external funding sources and implement strategies to secure support.

• Create Banner templates and intra-net web sites to increase the availability of data and improve the College-wide use of data to support decision-making.