 Vision
Mission
Values
Goals and Priority Initiatives
We are pleased to present Bellingham Technical College's Strategic Plan for 2004-2009. Our recently revised mission statement says, "Bellingham Technical College will deliver superior professional technical education for today's needs and tomorrow's opportunities." This plan is a collective effort by our community, students, faculty, and staff to guide our fulfillment of that mission in the near-term future.
Although we have periodically revised our mission statement to reflect the context in which we carry it out, we have since our inception, been constant in our dedication to two central purposes. We provide our students access to careers through superior technical education, and in doing so, we provide the employers in our region access to a workforce that enables them to be competitive in a global economy.
For the first time, we have made explicit the values that we hold as a college, and they place our students firmly in the center of our focus. I believe these values reflect both our understanding of a world that is changing rapidly and our acceptance of our responsibility to our students by staying ahead of that change. Our goals and initiatives are framed around these values and targeted to our mission. The openness of these goals and initiatives to emerging opportunities will help us create value for our students and employers. We believe that the ability to select the opportunities that present themselves and harness them to our constant purposes is at the heart of what it means to be strategic in a time of constant change.
Vision
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Bellingham Technical College will be a recognized leader in providing innovative and effective technical education, creating options for career success, and developing a competitive workforce.
Mission
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Bellingham Technical College delivers superior professional technical education for today's needs and tomorrow's opportunities
Values
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As a learning community, Bellingham Technical College is committed to educational excellence realized through a positive, values-based campus environment. To realize BTC's mission and vision, the college will adhere to the following values:
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Student Success
Promote instruction, activities, and an environment to enable student success.
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Inclusiveness
Create a welcoming respectful campus.
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Leadership
Support instruction in current and emerging workforce skills. Structure learning that embraces, adapts to, and fosters change.
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Opportunity
Provide seamless educational opportunities. Improve the quality of life for students and employees.
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Partnership
Contribute to a sustainable regional economy. Create mutual value for students, the college, and the community.
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Accountability
Foster a results-oriented culture. Demonstrate ethical decision-making and stewardship of public and private resources.
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BTC's Goals and Priority Initiatives
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Bellingham Technical College has identified seven goals toward achieving our mission and vision. Listed under each of these goals are the priority initiatives that will guide the college's efforts, responses, and resource allocations.
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INSTITUTIONAL GOAL 1 - Excellence & Innovation
BTC will support and promote excellence and innovation throughout the college.
Priority Initiatives
- Expand delivery models of courses and programs to provide opportunities for more student access and success.
- Use current innovations to develop more effective and efficient procedures and practices throughout the college.
- Continue to update, revise and implement curriculum and acquire instructional equipment that represents the current and emerging skills and knowledge needed in today's workplace.
- Incorporate regional and national benchmarking and develop activities that showcase the innovation and excellence of the college's instructional programs.
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INSTITUTIONAL GOAL 2 - Access (Students)
Campus Community Foster a positive college
BTC will increase student access to seamless, educational pathways.
Priority Initiatives
- Take steps toward becoming a credit institution and develop AAS-T or other program articulations with four-year colleges.
- Revise curriculum and instructional delivery to allow for students to enter programs on a part-time basis.
- Strengthen outreach and recruiting efforts to various populations of students including recent high school graduates, international students, and those who are under-represented.
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INSTITUTIONAL GOAL 3 - Student Success
BTC will increase students' achievement of their goals by providing activities and opportunities for learning, growth, and leadership.
Priority Initiatives
- Develop a centralized on-campus job placement center.
- Re-assess the College's current placement test (Accuplacer) and develop a more comprehensive system of improved advising, placement preparation, remedial support, early intervention, and follow up including job placement.
- Expand leadership opportunities and activities for student growth (ASBTC, Phi Theta Kappa, and others).
- Promote and provide activities for student growth that enable students' success in and beyond the local community, including a regional, national and international focus.
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INSTITUTIONAL GOAL 4 - Partnerships
BTC will maintain and develop effective partnerships that enrich the communities we serve.
Priority Initiatives
- Develop local, regional, national, and international formal and informal strategic alliances and partnerships with other educational institutions, businesses, and community stakeholders that strengthen BTC's long term financial health and ability to meet the mission.
- Participate in the creation of economic development policy and establish future workforce development goals by providing an active college presence on economic development and policy entities e.g. Port, EDC. Chamber, Downtown Renaissance, state committees, etc.
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INSTITUTIONAL GOAL 5 - Welcoming Campus Environment
BTC will create and maintain an attractive and inclusive campus environment that promotes a sense of community, respect for individuals, and effective work and learning.
Priority Initiatives
- Continue with the on-going update and implementation of BTC's Master Facility Plan that includes broad campus involvement and addresses campus aesthetics and spaces that address the needs of the library, places to celebrate with families and develop a sense of community, high demand technology instruction, parent education, specialized business training, expansion of programs and centers of excellence, and effective work.
- Develop an assessment and improvement process towards developing a welcoming campus environment socially and psychologically as well as a positive customer service culture.
- Develop campus-wide activities that support a welcoming campus wide environment.
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INSTITUTIONAL GOAL 6 - Accountability
BTC will demonstrate to its constituents the effective, efficient, ethical, and strategic use of all resources to produce positive outcomes.
Priority Initiatives
- Adopt procedures and use technology to maintain or increase effectiveness, increase efficiency, and reduce resource consumption.
- Refine the process of linking planning to budgeting and the allocation of resources.
- Expand the incorporation of recognized benchmarks into program and department effectiveness and learning outcomes.
- Develop a timeline and process for periodic comprehensive effectiveness reporting to the College's constituents.
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INSTITUTIONAL GOAL 7 - Marketing & Resource Development
BTC will broaden resources and community support to ensure the college's growth and viability.
Priority Initiatives
- Increase enrollment to 2200 FTEs by 2006-07 and develop a comprehensive Institutional Enrollment Master Plan.
- Maintain revenues from the state, increase other revenue streams per plan.
- Develop and implement a strategic marketing plan incorporating broad campus involvement, ownership, consistency, and brand identification.
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