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.
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.
GOAL ONE ACCESS
Expand access to Community College of Denver to meet the needs of our service area.
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 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 DPS high school students by 10%
 Offer 67% programs in an alternate (online, evening, weekend, accelerated) format
ACCESS
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
 SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 1.5 Design Accelerated and CompetencyBased Strategic Pathways per Year in Statewide Disciplines with High Student Demand Beginning in FY2020
 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
 SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 3.1.i Increase concurrent enrollment matriculation to CCD
 CCD Strategic Objective | Increase matriculation from high school to CCD
GOAL TWO 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 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 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%
ACCEPTANCE
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
 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.
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
 SBCCOE Strategic KPM | 2.4 Achieve the Goal that 25 percent of employees annually will engage in professional development.
 CCD Strategic Objective | Improve Campus Climate
OUTCOME
EXCEEDED: Approximately 91% of CCD Staff participated in Professional Development training this Fiscal Year.
ASCEND
GOAL THREE ASCEND
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 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
 Increase conferred credentials by 50%
 Increase persistence and retention rate to 76%
 Increase CCD-based hybrid and online course success rate to 80%
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%)
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%)
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.
