Good afternoon all,

After extensive community engagement to create the Draft Equity-Centered Strategic Plan, Shoreline Community College is presently fine-tuning its vision, mission, values, goals, equity statements, and objectives to solidify alignment with both the College’s objectives and the broader community’s needs. Let us know if there’s anything we may have missed. The Planning team highly values your thoughts on the drafts, ensuring we capture the essence of our community.

Shoreline Community College recognizes that equity and diversity in the academic environment fosters cultural awareness, promotes mutual understanding and respect, and provides inspiring role models for all students. We are committed to a campus climate and culture where all community members feel safe, experience a sense of belonging, and feel their overall well-being is supported through authentic and engaged relationships. 

Please share your thoughts in a survey that includes 25 questions, including 17 about the strategic framework of the plan and a small number of participant background information. The survey is anonymous and students who opt in are eligible to be selected for prizes!

Your answers will provide critical information that will help us refine our new mission, vision, values, equity statements, goals and objectives. Let’s celebrate what we appreciate about Shoreline to build an even more equitable, inclusive future to embrace the changing world!

Take the survey today: https://bit.ly/ShorelineStrategicPlanReview

Cheers,

Jack

Jack S. Kahn, Ph.D.

President

Shoreline Community College

Strategic Plan Update Nov 2023 

• • a Task Force made up of approximately 20 people representing multiple areas of the College, and the Shoreline community. 

• • six work groups who have been tasked to discuss specific areas of the project, and then report back to the overall Task Force (separate from the Task Force mentioned above).  

• • Sarah Swanberg (former chair of Strategic Planning Budget Council and member of the DEI strategic Plan Task Force) & I are working together to move us forward. Sarah has been participating in this project since the beginning and has been instrumental in its progress. 

   

• • met with the me to refine the Strategic Plan goals and objectives (June/July) 

• • shared the Draft Goals & Objectives /Strategic Plan Framework with the Executive Team (August) 

• • produced a publication-level Environmental Scan document (which is a document with a lot of data about the region, Shoreline etc.) (August/September) 

• • continued to meet with me to ensure that comments from the Accreditation Report have been addressed and attention has been given to many of the DEIA challenges affecting all community colleges in the State. (September/October) 

• • met with VP of Business and Administrative Services and Associate VP for Planning, Institutional Effectiveness, and Project Management (PIE) to review the plan and offer feedback. Both roles are tied closely to planning and budget initiatives at the College. (October/November) 

• • went through goals and objectives of the plan and received some comments from the Tast Force reps on the draft. 

• • gave a broad overview of the environmental scan and asked the group to provide any additional feedback by December 1st. 

    

• • MIG facilitated a campus wide charette held April 24, 2023, where approximately 97 faculty, staff and administrators discussed the campus MVEE statements. The information gained from this session generated guiding principles to direct the efforts of the MVEE Statement workgroups. Ideally the MVEE statement development would have been shepherded by the VP of DEIA, but in that void, I have been working with the workgroup tasked to this item & ET to move this forward.  

• • The MVEE workgroup has met over the past few weeks, and draft statements are in development. Initial draft ideas will be shared at the November 28th ET meeting, the December 7th DEIA Advisory Group Meeting, and the December 12th College Council meeting, providing additional opportunities for representational input and refinement of these statements before final drafts are submitted to MIG on January 16th.  

• • The timeline below highlights the steps to finalize the Strategic Plan and present it to the Board for adoption. 

   

• • MIG to meet with PIE and the President’s Office to determine SMART GOAL needs (December) 

• • Mission/Vision/Values/Equity collaborate with work groups and ET (November–January) 

• • DEIA advisory meeting(s) for Feedback December 7, January 4 and as needed (to be arranged) 

• • Presentation of Goals/ Objectives DRAFT PLAN to College Council (December 12th) 

• • Mission/Vision/Values/Equity statements due to MIG (January 16th) 

• • Strategic Plan Task Force Meeting (January 23rd) 

• • Work Group meetings (to be arranged in January) 

• • Board of Trustees Progress Report (January 24) 

• • In-person update presentation made to campus (to be arranged in January) 

• • Online feedback to the whole community (Launch February 1st, Close February 15th ) 

• • Packet sent to Board (February 21st) 

• • Adoption of Plan (If Board Approves) (February 28th)