MCCC Mission and Goals

Mission Statement

"MCCC enriches our community and empowers our students to achieve lifelong success by delivering high-quality, accessible education in a supportive and inclusive environment."

The following goals guide the college's quest to fulfill its mission:

1.  To Ensure Student Success:

• Implement the comprehensive Guided Pathways to Success model* so that students can readily follow the quickest route to completion (*GPS: Mapping Pathways to Student End Goals, Helping Students Enter a Pathway, Keeping Students on the Path, Ensuring that Students are Learning)
• Develop a systematic method for assessing and updating student intentions
• Increase the number of academic programs at the James Kerney Campus
• Increase success rates for low-income students and students of color
• Address the multiple needs of a diverse student body by meeting all students where they are and getting them to where they want to go (e.g., alternative class times, delivery modes, pedagogical models)
• Expand developmental education options to accelerate student transition to, and success in, college-level courses
• Redesign student intake process including advising to be proactive and remotely accessible
• Create actionable data, especially student cohort data, that shows where MCCC’s entering students are succeeding and where they are not
• Maximize technology and social media to improve marketing, outreach, and the student experience
• Provide comprehensive evening and weekend college experiences

2.  To Expand Innovative Partnerships:

• Expand partnerships with Community Based Organizations (CBOs) to serve students with low-level college readiness and high need for financial assistance
• Expand dual/concurrent enrollment rates at MCCC
• Increase dual/concurrent enrollment rates specifically at the James Kerney Campus
• Expand the successful college readiness programs for students entering MCCC from county secondary schools
• Expand and improve partnerships with four-year colleges and universities
• Expand the University Center at MCCC and improve the visibility of the Center
• Create and support internships, experiential learning, global education and internationalization, and career planning opportunities for students.
• Strengthen workforce development programs through partnerships with the business community and a comprehensive analysis of workforce needs
• Increase engagement with MCCC’s alumni
• Enlist alumni and other retired professionals as volunteer mentors for our students
• Strengthen and expand partnerships with international academic institutions, foreign colleges and universities, and provider organizations

3.  To Invest in Organizational and Professional Effectiveness:

• Develop a systematic plan for increasing professional capacity of staff, faculty, and administrators
• Use data and needs assessment analysis to plan and fund specific professional development activities
• Incorporate specific details about student learning and support needs in professional development activities
• Provide specific and concrete steps to improve student learning needs and the student learning experience
• Enhance resources available for the Center for Teaching and Learning based on initiatives with measureable student achievement goals
• Review the college’s hiring and promotion policies to strengthen the requirement for professional development that directly links to student success
• Increase investment in technology that supports organizational effectiveness (e.g., communication apps, and Blackboard and Colleague modules related to student success)
• Evaluate the organizational structure on a regular basis to optimize institutional efficiency, integration, and effectiveness
• Implement Human Resource development software
• Develop a Competitor Analysis that shows the number and types of two-year and certificate programs available in a 25-mile radius of MCCC
• Increase college branding and targeted marketing to various student groups
• Improve employee engagement