Internal Scan

1
Internal Scan

• Board of Trustees
• Planning Retreat- Dec 9, 2006

2
Trends at CCBC

• Political
• Technology
• Economic
• Educational
• Demographic
• Labor Force
• Social Values
• Competition

3
Political Trends at CCBC

• Governance Structure
• Issues at College Forums and in Surveys
• Accountability to county, state, federal, and
  accrediting agencies

4
Technology

• Infrastructure Initiative are maturing
• User expectations are growing
• Wide variations in utilization
• Support staff has not increased
• User Training

5
Economics

• Uncontrolled Costs at CCBC
• Transportation
• Utility
• Healthcare
• Training budgets of local employers
• Impact on CCBC students
• Financial Insecurity
• Financial Aid
• Increase in students who are working longer hours

6
Educational Trends

• Increase in unprepared students
• Value of measuring Learning Outcomes
• Infusion of Technology into classroom
• Increase in student swirling between colleges
• Increase in student expectation for user friendly
  services
• Summary Student Characteristics.xls

7
Demographic Trends at CCBC

• FTE (volume of business) variations by campus ---
• CEED FTE Variations---
• Draw Rates from High Schools have been stable---
• 68 of students are over 20
• Minority enrollment increasing at all sites
• Location, Location, Location
• Handouts in Folder

8
Labor Force

• Age of full time faculty and staff
• Large numbers in the under 30 and over 60 age
  categories
• Ethnic Diversity of Full Time Employees
• Working students
• Career Pipelines versus Career Pathways
• Employee Characteristic Trends.xls

9
Social Values / Lifestyles

• Different perspectives of different age groups
  (within students and within employees)
• Higher expectations even with limited resources
• Swirling-changing colleges, sites, programs,
  goals, friends

10
Social Values (continued)

• Need for civility
• Hunger for others to listen carefully to our
  concerns
• Shared values and respect for diversity
• Fix gaps between rhetoric and reality
  (Concentration on core work as well as
  initiatives)
• Involvement in decisions
• Desire for strong community do not like being
  strangers to each other.

11
Social Values (Continued)

• Student Values
• High expectations for services, challenge,
  engagement with college
• Time is very important resource for students
• Dont waste my time
• Willing to trade money for time

12
Competition

• Challenges-
• Heightened expectations
• Students are more aware of alternatives
• Most scare resource for older students is time
• Issues
• Price (Advantage)
• Product (Advantage except for time resource)
• Location (Advantage but challenged)
• Reputation for Quality
• Academics
• Services
• Competition Indicators.xls
• Student Satisfaction Trends.xls