Attract more students to technical career fields through targeted marketing, streamlining complex processes, and reducing known barriers.

Strategies: 

• Focus admissions efforts on the conversion of applicants to enrollees. 
• Tailor outreach efforts to better inform diverse populations about College opportunities. 
• Analyze the effectiveness of initiatives to address financial and educational barriers. 
• Streamline and simplify the multiple registration systems and processes. 
• Transition dual-enrollment high school students into technical college programs. 
• Engage youth organizations to expand awareness of technical occupations and opportunities. 

Improve students’ completion of credentials through the redesign of academic and support service systems and practices.

Strategies:

• Advance integrated solutions to improve Adult Basic Education student transitions to post-secondary technical programs and related careers. 
• Invest in academic and student support services that improve retention and graduation rates, aiming for equity across all student groups. 
• Strengthen institutional practices focused on improving outcomes for students of color. 
• Foster a culture of assessment to improve student learning.
• Expand specific program pathway plans that map and support completion for both part-time and full-time students. 

Work with regional partners to develop solutions to address workforce gaps in key employment sectors.

Strategies:

• Advance community partnerships that tackle persistent obstacles to self-sufficiency. 
• Fine-tune programmatic strategies to address unmet workforce needs throughout the District. 
• Expand incumbent worker training, enhancing existing workforce skillsets. 
• Partner with employers by providing opportunities to populations with untapped potential. 
• Engage regional workforce and economic development organizations as full partners in addressing the talent shortage.