Program
OBJECTIVE: Ensure student success for all by developing and nurturing high quality academic programs, students services, faculty, and external partnerships, which focus on closing equity gaps.
- Quality Student Services: Deliver student services that close equity gaps.
- Quality Teaching: Enhance instructional effectiveness that leads to increased student success.
- Quality Partnerships: Develop, maintain and engage business, community, and K-12 partnerships in ways that enhance student access to career training and experience.
- Quality Curriculum and Program Offerings: Ensure that the curricular portfolio, schedules, delivery methods, supplemental instruction and technology meet the educational, economic, and workforce needs of the region.
GOAL 1: Quality Student Services | Deliver student services that close equity gaps.
Strategies |
Success Indicators |
Action Steps |
- Use data to explore new target markets and strong past markets.
- MN Reconnect Project.
- Credit for Prior Learning.
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- Increase enrollment by 100 FYE (from FY21-25).
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- See Student Affairs Work Plans, and Strategic Enrollment and Retention Plan for specific action steps.
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- Implement targeted communication to all students and specific interventions to at-risk students.
- Increase participation/access rates by 5% to student services (student life, counseling, accessibility, career services, etc.).
- Increase the use of wrap around support services.
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- Increase overall persistence rates to 70%.
- Implementation and use of new Customer Relations Management by faculty and staff.
- Participation and access rates of students.
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- See Student Affairs Work Plans, and Strategic Enrollment and Retention Plan for specific action steps.
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- Adopt and implement Equity by Design within the Strategic Enrollment & Retention Management work.
- Reverse Transfer-award of degrees.
- Track the grad plus transfer rate of 2+2 Transfer Pathway programs.
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- Increase the overall completion rate to 60%.
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- See Student Affairs Work Plans, Master Academic Plan, Equity and Inclusion Plan, and Strategic Enrollment and Retention Plan for specific action steps.
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GOAL 2: Quality Teaching | Enhance instructional effectiveness that leads to increased student success.
Strategies |
Success Indicators |
Action Steps |
- Create a comprehensive model for Faculty Support and specific Professional Development offerings that support student success.
- Professional Development Plans are tied to college and individual goals.
- Utilize student engagement data and course surveys that will provide feedback to faculty at mid-term and end of semester.
- Enhance SLOAP for continuous improvement.
- Monitor progress on program fact sheets and use program review process for course and program improvement.
- Create specific training, tools, and support for quality online, hybrid and f2f teaching to increase success rates.
- Develop new tools for ÃÛÌÒTVs and peers to provide useful feedback to faculty at different stages of their career and in different modalities.
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- Increase faculty participation rate to 90% in professional development to enhance teaching effectiveness.
- Student satisfaction scores (aggregate, not by individual instructor) average satisfactory or excellent ratings.
- Student learning assessment results entered and analyzed by 90% of faculty.
- Complete and implement program review plans in each academic program on a two-year cycle.
- Increase course completion rates on all courses (online, blended, or F2F), reduce W’s and F’s by 10%.
- Increase program outcome results with 85% of student pass rates of licensures and certification exams.
- Improve the faculty feedback, review, and evaluation process and resources to enhance faculty effectiveness.
- 2% annual increase in program outcomes.
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- Provide support, feedback, and professional development to faculty.
- Student listening sessions in multiple formats.
- Analyze data for continuous improvement.
- Increase course success rates which will increase program success rates.
- Improve gateway courses in Math, Communications, and Science with higher grades that will allow students to pursue transfer pathways in STEM careers.
- Identify courses with higher grades and develop strategies to improve outcomes in those courses.
- Meet accreditation requirements in Nursing, Radiography, and Peace Officer.
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GOAL 3: Quality Partnerships | Develop, maintain and engage business, community, and K-12 partnerships in ways that enhance student access to career training and experience.
Strategies |
Success Indicators |
Action Steps |
- Develop 100 new engaged business or community partners.
- Create a Career Connections model to increase graduate outcomes, alumni relations, and talent retention within the region.
- Increase the number of College Now completers who enroll in Riverland after graduation by 5% annually.
- Implement and enhance The Hormel Foundation Austin Assurance Scholarship program, SMEC CTE
- Future Ready Partnerships, Adult Basic Education and other specific partnerships.
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- Increase the number of relevant partners involved in advisory boards for the college.
- Increase the number of engaged partners participating in college events, hiring interns, hiring graduates, guest speakers, etc.
- Enhance and maintain effective K-12 partnerships to deliver quality concurrent enrollment, PSEO,
- Early/Middle College, and The Hormel Foundation Austin Assurance Scholarship program, and Bridges to Careers.
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- Add/replace 2 new partners who hire graduates to each advisory committee.
- Organize special student job interview events the semester prior to graduation and/or alumni with partner businesses/organizations.
- Enhance the Riverland College Now program with scholarships and support to concurrent enrollment mentors and mentees through professional development.
- Create, align and offer developmental education courses in partnership with ABE.
- Use multiple measures of placement, CPL to avoid additional testing, transfer or admission barriers.
- Promote guided career learning pathways.
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GOAL 4: Quality Curriculum and Program Offerings | Ensure that the curricular portfolio, schedules, delivery methods, supplemental instruction and technology meet the educational, economic, and workforce needs of the region.
Strategies |
Success Indicators |
Action Steps |
- Design and redesign Credit, Non-Credit and Customized Training programs that are designed to meet student and labor market needs.
- Design schedules, courses and methodology that is geared to what students want and need.
- Design proactive and reactive strategies to increase student success in the first two semesters.
- Increase program completion rates by 2-5% (measure full-time and part-time students).
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- Increase enrollment by 100 FYE (from FY21-25).
- Increase overall persistence rates to 70%.
- Increase overall completion rate to 60%.
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- Design schedules, courses and methodology that is geared to what students want and need.
- Increase course completion rates by 5%.
- Design proactive and reactive strategies to increase student success in the first two semesters.
- Use engaged advising strategies and Guided Learning Pathways to keep students on track.
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