The Institutional Planning Council, at its November 5^th meeting, adopted the following 2002-2003 Institutional Goals as a recommendation to the Board of Trustees. As part of the institutional planning process, the Institutional Goals are to be reflective of the college’s mission and vision. The institutional goals further inform the planning process by providing broad college-wide goals to which the component administrators develop their more specific component area goals and objectives. Each planning year, IPC selects certain goals that are to be emphasized in the college’s planning efforts. For 2002-2003 goals receiving special thematic emphasis include Institutional Goals #3 – Program Development and Delivery; #5 – Student Retention and Persistence; #7 – Outreach and Recruitment and; #12 – Community Relations.

For 2002-2003, IPC has added a new goal (13) Institutional Advocacy. IPC would appreciate receiving your final comments to either Brenda Flyswithhawks (bflyswithhawks@santarosa.edu) or Curt Groninga (cgroninga@santarosa.edu) by no later than November 16^th. Thank you.

1. Instructional Quality: To maintain, improve and emphasize quality and comprehensive instruction in an environment of academic freedom and high academic standards in both departmental and student services programs.
2. Student Success: To help students improve in setting and accomplishing educational and career goals, and in accomplishing those goals, by providing comprehensive instructional and student support services.
3. Program Development and Delivery: To explore, develop and support new substantive offering, new modes of delivering educational services and new sites to better serve the evolving diversity of our student body and the evolving intellectual, economic and technical needs of our community.
4. Resource Development: To design and implement a comprehensive resource development plan for assuring access to and delivery of a quality education for current and future generations.
5. Student Retention and Persistence: To identify and implement activities designed to increase student retention at the course level and student persistence from the developmental level through the certificate, program, or degree level until each student’s educational goals have been met.
6. Lifelong Learning: To provide a wide variety of class offerings and activities that assist students of all ages and cultures with varying levels of academic preparedness in adapting to ever-changing conditions.
7. Outreach and Recruitment: To develop additional methods of recruiting in-state, national and international faculty and students of both genders and diverse ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
8. Staff Development: To encourage and support continuous upgrading of skills and knowledge through programs and services designed to maintain a faculty and staff who are knowledgeable and current in their fields, practice diversity awareness, and demonstrate an appropriate level of technological competence.
9. College Governance: To maintain and enhance the governance of the institution through a well-defined participatory process and sharing of information to, from and between all constituent groups and at all locations.

10. Institutional Effectiveness: To design and implement a broad-based and integrated system of research, evaluation and planning to assess institutional effectiveness, determine institutional needs and use the results for institutional improvement.
11. Institutional Quality Fiscal Responsibility: To improve the accountability and cost-effectiveness of all programs, services and facilities throughout the District while maintaining in an environment that is supportive of a high quality educational experience.
12. Community Relations: To improve the two-way flow of information about the College vision, mission, and goals, programs and student outcomes to and from the total community and to establish a wide range of positive relationships within and outside the College District.
13. Institutional Advocacy: To promote the institutional interests and needs of Santa Rosa Junior College by providing thorough information about College and student needs to decision-makers at the local, state and national levels on a regular basis.