The Institutional Planning & Effectiveness Council (IPEC) welcomes you to our site, designed to keep you informed about strategic planning at Rogue Community College. If you have questions about our work, are interested in getting involved, or have comments to offer, please contact Mary O'Kief.
IPEC’s responsibilities are designing and conducting:
- a collaborative strategic planning process
- a collaborative budgeting process that links the annual budget to the strategic plan.
The new Strategic Plan for 2008-2012 was approved by the Board of Education on June 17, 2008. Developing the new Strategic Plan involved a wide range of faculty, staff, students, and community representatives working collaboratively. An over-arching goal was to incorporate ideals and values deemed important in directing the college toward effectively fulfilling its mission of serving students and the Southern Oregon community.
The complete strategic planning process included six stages:
- design the planning process and form groups to do the work;
- unearth the major strategic challenges facing RCC in the coming four years using a scans analysis process;
- review and modify the mission, vision, and value statements;
- develop institutional priorities (goals and measurable objectives) to address the strategic challenges;
- develop work plans with short-term outcomes;
- implement and/or pilot strategies; and
- assess and institutionalize as appropriate.
The planning process officially got underway at Fall In-Service in September 2007. During that session a significant number of RCC staff and faculty reported they wanted a concise, updated mission statement that served as a motivational and purposeful ideal.
In August 2007, the Strategic Planning Steering Committee, made up of RCC and community representatives, was formed to monitor progress and made recommendations to improve the plan. In October, four Strategic Planning teams, each with 9-12 members, began meeting regularly.
The teams’ Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats analyses revealed strategic challenges with considerable overlap between them. At two retreats, teams shared their efforts and reached agreement on the best ways to strengthen RCC. They drafted a new mission statement; developed institutional goals and objectives; prepared an inspirational vision statement to describe RCC once it has achieved its plans; and drafted new core value statements to express how the College staff will conduct business and themselves. The Synthesis Team, with representatives from each team, incorporated suggested changes. Draft versions of all work were posted at the strategic planning web-page and circulated widely to selected college councils, all campuses, Strategic Planning Steering Committee, and the Board of Education.
To implement the plan, champions were selected for each objective. Champions developed action plans which included annual and quarterly metrics, budgets, and communication plans for each objective. Champions provide monthly updates to the RCC Board of Education and IPEC. The strategic planning process and objectives will be evaluated annually, with objectives modified as needed.
For more information about the College Budget, which is the fiscal expression of our plans, visit the Budget Process site.
View the Council's meeting agendas and minutes.
