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3.3: The College will reduce the economic barriers to higher education associated with
limited financial aid by increasing the number of applications for and awards of both
merit and need-based scholarships, as evidenced by Foundation update reports, by fall
2020.
3.4: The College will reduce social, geographic, and time barriers to academic success
through the enhancement of online, web and/or mobile academic and student support
by increasing the availability, accuracy and currency of courses, applications and
content, as well as the ease and convenience of delivery.
4.
Institutional Effectiveness
4.1: All divisions, departments, programs, services and units of the College will,
through the implementation of an integrated planning system, monitor and assess
outcomes, and communicate evidence that assessments have been used toward
continuous improvement in achieving the College’s mission, vision, and goals during
the period 2013-2020.
5.
Communication
5.1: Each year during the period 2013-2020, the College will, through written,
electronic and face-to-face communication, issue college-wide communication to
administrators, faculty, staff, and students in order to promote effective internal
communication. In addition, each campus will develop methods to deliver and receive
departmental and divisional input about their mission-related activities.
5.2: Each year during the period 2013-2020, the College will, through written,
electronic, and face-to-face communication issue information to external constituents
and stakeholders about College and student initiatives and accomplishments, as well as
community outreach programs, in order to promote the value the College brings to
Suffolk County and its citizens.
6.
Diversity
6.1: Each year during the period 2013-2020, the College will foster and demonstrate
measurable improvement in decreasing ethnic disparities within its instructional and
non-instructional faculty and staff for pan-cultural groups.
6.2: Each year during the period 2013-2020, the College will decrease achievement
disparities among pan-cultural groups and across socioeconomic groups by developing
partnerships and approaches aimed at decreasing the need for developmental
education, improving the rate of persistence fall-to-spring for FTFT freshmen, and
improving graduation and transfer rates for these populations