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Strategic Plan

Blackhawk's Strategic Plan outlines the college's priorities and plays a pivotal role in guiding the college towards its vision and embodying its core values.

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Strategic Priorities

  • Student Success & Experience: Improve student success and experience through reimagined engagement opportunities.
  • Evolution & Identity: Enhance programs, services and facilities to shape our identity and engage the community with the college we are becoming.
  • Partnerships & Pathways: Expand and strengthen partnerships and pathways to improve student transitions into careers or four-year institutions.
  • Organizational Development & Effectiveness: Optimize systems and develop opportunities to improve performance, alignment and sustainability.
  • Outcome-Driven Innovation: Create and improve programs and processes, pilot ideas and scale innovation.

Strategic Initiatives

  • Enhance and Expand Flexible Learning Options
  • Improve the Transition from Associate to Bachelor's Degree

  • Improve our Integrated Learning Assessment System
  • Implement an Integrated Teaching Quality System to Drive Organization Improvement
  • Implement New Faculty Academy
  • Develop Master Courses to Enhance Consistency and Quality

  • Improve Accuracy, Access, and Sharing of Data/Information

  • Create a Strategic Enrollment Management Plan
  • Implement Starfish to Increase Student Retention and Success
  • Enhance Employee Performance Evaluation to Increase Employee Engagement
  • Strengthen College Culture 
  • Enhance Community Engagement
  • Create a plan to enhance campus appeal, design continuity and art brand standards

  • Map and Document Key College Processes
  • Develop the Integrated Planning and Budget System
  • Implement CLSS to Improve the Scheduling Process
  • Optimize Ellucian/Banner