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Strategic Directions & Objectives

To meet our Mission, Values, and Vision, the College has developed Strategic Directions and Objectives. These structured goals guide actions and initiatives while providing measurable outcomes to demonstrate what success will look like in becoming the College of Choice, Partner of Choice, and Employer of Choice.

Primary Goal

OCC’s primary strategic goal is to double the graduation rate, to help students realize the economic and life benefits of an earned college credential. OCC will attain this goal through strategies focused on excellence, people, and outcomes.

Strategic Direction 1: Cultivate Operational Excellence and Sustainability: Students, Experience, Outcomes

Objective 1: Become a student-ready college, innovating to advance agency, access, and success for all students.

Improve developmental education outcomes through corequisite models & placement
Expand the online portfolio of programs & courses
Advance student completion and equity through the Detroit Drives Degrees Community College Collaborative (D3C3)
- Grow an integrated service model through proactive, systematic, student success analytics
- Enhance operational efficiency and impact through streamlined processes and digitized forms
- Expand K-12 partnerships to grow dual enrollment opportunities and equity-based college access and success

Student Holistic Needs Institutional Framework: Collegewide screening, coordination, and guidance of wraparound services for students
Amplification of Michigan Reconnect (MREC) to grow enrollment and increase graduation outcomes among this population

Objective 2: Champion educational excellence for curriculum and instruction, building innovation, student connection, and support.

Adopt and implement a student satisfaction tool (Ruffalo Noel Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory)
Advance OCC’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC)
Increase student life/engagement opportunities through collaboration & planning
Advance student completion and equity through the Detroit Drives Degrees Community College Collaborative (D3C3)
- Accelerate credit attainment through credit for prior learning, optimized modalities, and gateway course enhancement
- Increase employer-based mobility pathways and career connectedness

RNL 2.0 Student Instructional Experience Improvement
Tactical Guided Pathways from Dual Enrollment through Completion: Using the Guided Pathways Framework to align college systems, academic structures, and operations

Objective 3: Improve outcomes for all students through credit momentum, graduation, transfer, and career advancement.

Compressed degrees grant: Tactical deployment of shortened course delivery to increase the speed of credit momentum and graduation
Community college 3.0: How OCC outcomes translate into post-graduation success through career and transfer outcomes

Objective 4: Engage in continuous improvement through organizational analysis to nimbly respond to opportunities and threats.

Optimize organization to invest in mission

Modernize/Automate and Streamline Business Processes through AI Taskforce
College Campuses Master Plan

Strategic Direction 2: Build a people first organization

Objective 1: Grow culture standards of communication, collaboration, accountability, and respect, empowering every employee to live the mission of OCC in service to students and community.