Futuring is an evolutionary process that combines regular conversations and
collaborative research to assess our strategic position. We identify current and
emerging patterns, trends, and expectations to define our future direction, and we
determine the most effective measures to evaluate each developmental stage. Futuring
allows us to continually realign our mission, planning, and intended outcomes of our
programs and services to meet market needs and stakeholder expectations. We review our
achievement indicators, which prompt new research questions. Each investigation
clarifies short-term goals that lead us to our desired future.
This comprehensive plan shows how we are using the futuring process to evolve our campus
to meet our community's needs.
Mission
To provide open-access to affordable, quality education that meets the needs of students, regional employers, and community.
Core Themes
Learning For Work & Life
Student Centered
Community Engagement
CEI’s mission leads each action on our campus, which show our
commitment “to provide open-access to affordable, quality education that meets
the needs of students, regional employers, and community.” The mission is
articulated by CEI’s Sustain core themes: learning for work and
life, student-centered, and community engagement. They guide our discussion and
focus our initiatives.
This plan offers the quantitative and qualitative measures that prove that we
are meeting our mission by focusing on our core themes, and it shows how we use
those measures to constantly drive intelligent innovation.
CEI utilizes a flexible futuring framework rather than a static strategic plan. The Framework is designed to
This report makes the Framework visible. It outlines how information is created
and shared across campus so that our diverse campus can make new connections.
With a shared Framework, each department can ask new research questions and see
how those answers will fit into the greater whole. The Framework outlines
consistent assessment measures, as well as the short-term initiatives that
spring from them.
Ultimately, the Framework shows the collaborative strength of CEI’s
participatory governance. It shows how CEI ties all our content experts into a
cohesive whole capable of moving the College into our desired future.
This report was instigated by the Idea Lab, which runs the Connected Campus-Connected Future Initiative. The Idea Lab is comprised of
Connected Campus is a monthly series of cross-campus discussions, designed to
guide CEI’s priorities. Administration ensures that every employee has time
during work hours to participate because that strengthens our participatory
governance and ensures our institutional sustainability.
This report represents the work of the entire campus, though. The following
standing committees discussed each stage of development, and they will continue
to enable and monitor the results:
CEI is taking an ambidextrous approach to achieving our mission. The left side focuses
on student achievement objectives, and the right side focuses on institutional
sustainability objectives.
CEI continually challenges its faculty and staff to experiments with new ways to meet our college priorities.
At the 2022 Futuring Summit, our leaders scanned the environment and prioritized these challenges:
CEI initiated an Institutional Student Learning Outcomes Pilot Program. Under the direction of VP Barber, CEI has designed cascading levels of outcome assessment. The assessment measures are designed to unify decisions at every level. Their collective purpose is to show our students and every other stakeholder that
CEI adopted a Disaggregated Data Proposal, creating a new series of disaggregated data benchmarks that follow the academic timeline. Essentially, it quantifies our performance at pivotal points where a student chooses to persist or leave. It further refines the data by target populations which are either underrepresented on our campus or at high risk of failure. With that information, departments can tailor solutions that will increase persistence and overall success.
CEI instigated a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental study of all its policies and procedures. Its goals are to ensure that CEI’s institutional framework is in alignment with professional standards, that our work is more transparent and apparent to our community stakeholders, and that we purposefully eradicate siloes as we grow. This serves to assure stakeholders that CEI is financially sustainable institution and a stellar investment. (This can be shown by a compiled list of all the newly formed policies, handbooks, etc., that the accreditation checks performed by the Governance and IE committees have brought into being.)
CEI began the Connected Campus-Connected Future discussions in March 2021. They
resulted in a string of changes, all instigated by employee suggestions. In this
year, the college will address interrelated questions that all tie to these
objectives, and their answers will continue to shape practice. (This progress
can be measured by a compiled list of CCCF action items.)
Human Resources and the VP of Academic and Student Affairs also worked to
refined the campus service requirements so that the workload was more evenly
distributed and employees could be certain that their work was noticed and
rewarded.
The Mission-Driven Purpose
The Students We Study
Comparing Ourselves to Our Peers
Using the Data
The Contributors
CEI’s student success is the greatest measure of our mission fulfillment. We are committed to work, measure, and innovate continually to ensure that our students leave with credentials that are backed by proven performance. To make sure we get there, we continually grade our own work as rigorously as we grade our students.
This page lets us share our quantitative and qualitative measures with our community. Have questions? Please use the contact information to get to the right person!
CEI always works as a team to accomplish our objectives. We have many regular committees, and they work to improve one or more of our priorities. Want to know more? Please contact the committee leader!
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