Community College of Denver Strategic Plan 2025

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ACADEMIC YEAR 2024-2025

As we enter the final year of our Strategic Plan, we are dedicated to achieving excellence and concluding our journey with integrity and distinguished leadership.

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Table of Contents

Vision, Mission, Values, and Institutional Outcomes

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Goal One | Access

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Outcomes

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Goal Two | Acceptance

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Outcomes

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Goal Three | Ascend

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Outcomes

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Goal Four | Achieve

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Summary of 2023-2024 Key Performance Measure Outcomes

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Summary of 2024-2025 Key Performance Measure Goals

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Additional Resources

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VISION Every member of our community will attain the education they desire.

MISSION CCD provides our diverse community an opportunity to gain quality higher education and achieve personal and professional success in a supportive and inclusive environment.

VALUES Involvement Student-Focus Integrity Lifelong Learning Excellence Healthy Work Environment

INSTITUTIONAL OUTCOMES We value and are committed to a process of student learning outcomes assessment that is faculty- and staff-driven, student-centered, and advances student learning inside and outside the classroom at Community College of Denver (CCD). Student learning outcomes assessment at CCD is the “systematic collection, review, and use of information about education programs undertaken for the purpose of improving student learning and development” (Palomba & Banta, 1999). Direct assessment occurs at three levels—course, program, and institutional—with defined outcomes/objectives at each level.

At the institutional level, a CCD graduate will demonstrate the following: §

Quantitative Literacy | Interpret, represent, and analyze mathematical information accurately and perform calculations to solve problems. § Effective Communication | Communicate a central guiding idea to a defined audience, for a concrete purpose, employing effective conventions in the service of meaning. § Intercultural Literacy | Apply a set of cognitive, affective, and behavioral skills to effectively interact in a variety of cultural contexts. § Critical Thinking | Analyze information and ideas from multiple perspectives and articulate an argument, opinion, or conclusion based on that analysis.

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GOAL ONE

ACCESS OBJECTIVES Diversify Methods of Service Delivery   Expand Workforce Development & Community  Improve Matriculation from High School to CCD INTIATIVES  Add to our short-term, high-demand, programming – both   Â

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non-credit and for-credit; and expand our accelerated, evening degree options.

Leverage the state’s financial support for the Displaced Aurarian scholarship to recruit and successfully complete students of Aurarian lineage.

Redevelop Boulder Creek building as a campus gateway and home to Health Sciences and other programs Re-engage the downtown Denver corridor and philanthropy to build brand awareness and partnerships to bring awareness of the value the Community College of Denver has to offer to the Denver economy.

Enhance our concurrent enrollment program and processes in partnership with Denver Public Schools to yield more students completing high-school with a college credential and increase the numbers of DPS graduates enrolling in higher-education after high school graduation with a focus on students in Title I designated high schools.

MEASURES  Return to pre-pandemic enrollment  Increase the concurrent enrollment participation of Title 1 Â

DPS high school students by 10% Offer 67% programs in an alternate (online, evening, weekend, accelerated) format

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Expand access to Community College of Denver to meet the needs of our service area.

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GOAL ONE

ACCESS 2023-24 KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES & OUTCOMES CCD KPM Goal 1.A Implement accelerated, competency-based, or work-based learning opportunities within at least two pathways.

ALIGNMENT Â SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.5 Design Accelerated and CompetencyBased Strategic Pathways per Year in Statewide Disciplines with High Student Demand Beginning in FY2020 Â CCD Strategic Objective | Diversify Methods of Service Delivery

OUTCOME MET: Increased accelerate, competency-based, or work-based learning opportunities within at least two pathways (from 771 opportunities to 1,195).

CCD KPM GOAL 1.B Increase matriculation of students that have taken a concurrent enrollment course with CCD within the past three years, completed a high school equivalent diploma, and not enrolled anywhere within one year.

ALIGNMENT Â SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 3.1.i Increase concurrent enrollment matriculation to CCD

 CCD Strategic Objective | Increase matriculation from high school to CCD

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ACCEPTANCE Diversity and inclusion will be embedded in every aspect of work and learning at the Community College of Denver in an effort to reach equity for students, faculty, and staff.

OBJECTIVES Create a Culture of Belonging and Acceptance   Close the Achievement Gap  Improve Campus Climate INITIATIVES  As a Moon Shot for Equity institution, we will accelerate

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the erasure of equity gaps by meeting students’ holistic needs through proven and innovative practices and by building equity-minded leadership capacity.

Expose barriers to student success and test the effectiveness of interventions.

Attract and retain talented, diverse, and dedicated individuals who are not only content experts, but remain current in labor market needs and innovate to yield inclusive student success.

Build Framework for Shared Governance and Implement BrainTrust Create and Execute College Communications & Belonging Plan

MEASURES Increase the fall to spring retention rate for students of     Â

color enrolled in programs aligned to high wage/high demand jobs by 10% 45% diverse hires for monthly staff 25% diverse hires for adjuncts 85% of CCD staff participating in professional development Reduce the turnover rate for first year employees from 20% to 10%

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GOAL TWO

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GOAL TWO

ACCEPTANCE

2023-24 KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES & OUTCOMES

CCD KPM Goal 2.A Ensure 45% Diverse Hires for Monthly Staff to achieve a workforce that reflects student and community demographics.

ALIGNMENT  SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 2.1 Inclusive hiring and employee retention practices  CCD Strategic Objective | Create a Culture of Belonging and Acceptance

OUTCOME MET: Ensured 45% Diverse Hires for Monthly Staff to achieve a workforce that reflects student and community demographics.

CCD KPM GOAL 2.B Ensure 25% Diverse Hires for Adjuncts to achieve a workforce that reflects student and community demographics.

ALIGNMENT Â SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 2.1 Inclusive hiring and employee retention practices

 CCD Strategic Objective | Create a Culture of Belonging and Acceptance OUTCOME MET: Ensured 25% Diverse Hires for Adjuncts to achieve a workforce that reflects student and community demographics.

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GOAL TWO

ACCEPTANCE

2023-24 KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES & OUTCOMES

CCD KPM Goal 2.C Ensure 85% of CCD Staff participates in Professional Development training during this FY

ALIGNMENT Â SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 2.4 Achieve the Goal that 25 percent of employees annually will engage in professional development. Â CCD Strategic Objective | Improve Campus Climate

OUTCOME EXCEEDED: Approximately 91% of CCD Staff participated in Professional Development training this Fiscal Year.

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GOAL THREE

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Community College of Denver will be the college where all students are successful.

OBJECTIVES Increase Retention   Increase Completion  Innovate Teaching and Learning INTIATIVES  Create pathways-based supportive communities

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around our students that value each student as an individual and are invested in student success at CCD and after graduation.

Redesign New Student Orientation Scale Up TRIO SSS Practices Invest in Creating and Maintaining Open Educational Resources (OER) Leverage Colorado Online @ Increase ACUE Participation Develop Auraria Learning and Employment Ecosystem

MEASURES Â Increase conferred credentials by 50% Â Increase persistence and retention rate to 76% Â Increase CCD-based hybrid and online course success rate to 80%

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ACSCEND 2023-24 KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES & OUTCOMES CCD KPM Goal 3.A Increase conferred credentials for students disaggregated by race/ethnicity with a focus on completion for Black and Hispanic/Latinx students by 1%.

ALIGNMENT  SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.1 Increase certificates and degrees by 1% annually  CCD Strategic Objective | Increase Completion

OUTCOME EXCEEDED: Increased conferred credentials of Black students by 1.10% (from 8.86% to 9.96%) and Hispanic students by 1.33% (from 33.52% to 34.85%)

CCD KPM GOAL 3.B Increase fall to fall retention disaggregated by race/ethnicity with a focus on Black and Hispanic/Latinx students by 5%.

ALIGNMENT  SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.2 Increase retention rates  CCD Strategic Objective | Increase Retention OUTCOME NOT MET: Increased fall to fall retention of Black students by .36% (from 33.45% to 33.81%) and Hispanic students by 2.06% (from 39.85% to 41.91%)

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GOAL THREE

ACSCEND 2023-24 KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES & OUTCOMES CCD KPM Goal 3.C Increase fall to fall retention of FTFT students at full-time status by 5%.

ALIGNMENT  SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.2 Increase retention rates  CCD Strategic Objective | Increase Retention OUTCOME NOT MET: Fall to fall retention of FTFT students at full-time status decreased by 1.7% (from 35.9% to 34.2%)

CCD KPM GOAL 3.D Increase fall to spring retention disaggregated by race/ethnicity with a focus on Black and Hispanic/Latinx students by 5%.

ALIGNMENT  SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.2 Increase retention rates  CCD Strategic Objective | Increase Retention OUTCOME MET: Increased fall to spring retention of Black students by 5.20% (from 53.41% to 58.61%) NOT MET: Increased fall to spring retention of Hispanic students by 1.70% (from 65.65% to 67.35%)

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GOAL THREE

ACSCEND 2023-24 KEY PERFORMANCE MEASURES & OUTCOMES CCD KPM Goal 3.E Increase fall to spring retention of FTFT students at full-time status by 5%.

ALIGNMENT  SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.2 Increase retention rates  CCD Strategic Objective | Increase Retention OUTCOME NOT MET: Fall to spring retention increased by 0.8% (from 48.7% to 49.4%)

CCD KPM GOAL 3.F Achieve equivalent course success rates for CCD only online courses as compared to CCD pooled online courses.

ALIGNMENT  SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.7 Increase online course success rate  CCD Strategic Objective | Increase Completion and Innovate Teaching & Learning

OUTCOME During AY2023-24 CO Online @ CCD course success rates were 6% more than CO Online @ Consortium course success rates.

• Academic Year 2022-23 o CO Online @ CCD Course Success | 77% o CO Online @ Consortium Course Success | 76% • Academic Year 2023-24 o CO Online @ CCD Course Success | 68% o CO Online @ Consortium Course Success | 63% Source: Health Assessment Dashboard Student Success

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GOAL FOUR

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Community College of Denver will be the college where all students achieve their education or career goal.

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OBJECTIVES Increase Continuing Education upon Achievement of   Â

Credential Increase Transfers to Four-Year Institutions or CCD Bachelors Programs Increase Career Placement

INITIATIVES Â Build a bi-institutional career center that focuses on supports to close the employment gap for students of color and low-socioeconomic students.

MEASURES Increase successful transfers to four-year institutions  for all students by 10%

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