The Road To Strategic Plan 2012 - 2017May 24, 2011

LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY

COLLEGE DISTRICT

STRATEGIC PLANNING KICK-OFF

Road To STRATEGIC PLAN 2012-2017AGENDA

VISION 2017Next Exit

Chancellor’s Welcome and Introductions

Committee Charge, Vision, and Timeline

Status and Evaluation of the Current Strategic Plan

Follow-up Accreditation Action Plans

AGENDA

OBJECTIVES

Reach consensus on the timeline and vision

Review and validate evaluation of the 2006-2011 plan

Reach consensus on those parts of the old plan we want to keep

Agree on who owns the follow-up accreditation action plans and the timeline for completing it.

COMMITTEE CHARGETo develop a comprehensive strategic plan for the Los Angeles Community College District that will articulate a shared mission and vision for the nine LACCD colleges and establish a clear series of District goals, implementation strategies, and benchmarks that can be used to guide local college planning efforts.

VISION AND TIMELINE

Strategic planning consists of the answers to a series of questions:

Mission: Who are we? What is the

LACCD about?

Vision: Where do we want to go?

Goals: What do we need to do to get there?

STRATEGIC PLANNING

FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS

•Where are we now? (Assessment)

• Where do we need to be? (Gap / Future End

State)

• How will we close the gap? (Strategic Plan)

• How will we monitor our progress? (Outcome

Measures)

10 STEP Process1. Planning Process

2. Initial Assessment

3. External Scan and Analysis

4. Internal Scan and Analysis

5. Preliminary Report on Planning Themes

6. External and Internal Focus Groups and Online Forum

7. District-wide Strategic Goals

8. District-wide Strategic Initiatives

9. Links to College Strategic Plans

10.Periodic Assessment Process

COMMON ERRORS • The assumption that you can do without a strategic plan, and figure it

out as you go along.

•Creating a strategic plan without the participation of the people

whose buy-in is needed for it to become a reality.

•Making decisions about the content of a strategic plan without

consensus.

•Having a strategic plan focus on short term problems, or problems

that can be solved quickly or relatively easy.

•The strategic plan is too wordy, general or abstract.

•Stopping with vision and not following up with strategies and action

plans.

STATUS OF THE CURRENT PLAN

Background to 2006-11 District Strategic Plan•Developed in 2005

•Response to accreditation need

•Set up planning framework including:

•Cycle of activities and reports

•Oversight District Planning Committee

• (DSP)

•Developed 5 goals and 33 objectives

•Utilized a variety of outcome measures

•Example: Effectiveness Report

•Conducted summative assessment and score card (handouts)

•DPC Recommendations

•Continue Goals and Objectives

STATUS OF THE CURRENT PLAN

Limited number of goals and objectives

Prioritize goals (e.g., fiscal stability, student success)

Consider goals more closed related to LACCD core mission

Utilize common and well understood measures

Associate outcomes with intentional actions

Be able to track and reporting on outcomes (including showing results of these) Tracking system (IES)

Less prescriptive overall

Recommendations for 2012 plan

Small Group Activity

Working Groups

Everyone has been assigned to a working group

Each group is asked to take at least two of the five goals from Strategic Plan 2006-2011 to evaluate

Worksheet

For Each Goal

In In 2011, does this goal and the objectives still

In 2011, does this goal and the objectives still

make sense? If so, what three objectives would

your group recommend keeping?

What additional questions or outstanding issues

needs to be addressed before a decision to

keep this goal for our next Strategic Plan can be

made?

2011, does this goal and the objectives still

make sense? If so, what three objectives would

Reporting Out

At the end of the activity, each group will report out the key highlights of their discussion

If your group did the same goal, we will ask you to add your input

These will be compiled for future reference

Identify Roles in your Group

Organizer: keep everyone on track

Note-taker: fill out the forms

Reporter: report out orally at the end

Timekeeper: keep track of time

Follow-up Accreditation

Action Plans

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