I. F. 3. Strategic Planning
The President of each Technical College shall be responsible for the development and maintenance of an institutional strategic plan that is aligned with the strategic plan of the Department of Technical and Adult Education. Each Technical College President will ensure that a comprehensive, participative planning process is conducted at least every third year. Additionally, each Technical College will ensure that the strategic plan of the institution, including the institutional mission statement, is reviewed, updated as needed, recommended to the local board of directors for adoption, and approved by the local board of directors each year.
The institutional strategic planning process of each Technical College will conform to the requirements of the Department of Technical and Adult Education and the accrediting agency or agencies of the institution. The plan shall establish, at least, the mission, vision, values, goals, outcomes, objectives, and strategies for the Technical College. The strategic plan of the Technical College will serve as a guide for the institution as a whole for the next five years and will serve as a foundation from which to develop shorter-term operational plans, functional unit plans, and topical plans.
When formulating their own local strategic plans, each Technical College should align its goals and objectives with those of the Department of Technical and Adult Education, where applicable, and should develop institutional strategies to contribute to the agency-wide objectives.
Each Technical College should endeavor to align the timing of the strategic planning process with that of the Department of Technical and Adult Education as closely as practicable. When the Department of Technical and Adult Education develops a completely new strategic plan to become effective at the beginning of a fiscal year (July), the Technical College should strive to complete the development of a new plan during the same fiscal year and to gain local board approve the new plan by March of that fiscal year. It is also recommended that annual updates of the strategic plan be approved by the local board od directors no later than March of each year to enable annual operational plans and budget requests to reflect the updated strategic plan.
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Created: April 23, 2001
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