Strategic Planning

AWC Strategic Plan Pillars 

As selected in May by AWC President Dr. Daniel Corr, the three pillars for the AWC Strategic Plan 2028 are: 

Excelencia

The word is in Spanish as a nod to our desire to meet our responsibilities as an HSI by creating excellent learning opportunities and outcomes for all students through a persistent use of data. 77% of our students are Latinx and many of those are first generation students. We are striving to reduce the achievement gap for these students, particularly but not exclusively. There will be a halo effect on all AWC students as we: 

• Level up how we use data to improve learning outcomes, like course-level success, retention, degree completion or transfer 
• Make data available more equitably and on-demand to teams working across the district to serve both students and each other  
• Use data to measure our effectiveness across all areas and then execute a plan to improve 

Access

Removing barriers to awareness of college offerings, enrollment, retention and completion and strengthening the ways community partners utilize college offerings. This could include dual credit, corporate training, new markets, or any number of things. Access will be improved for all our communities and students when we: 

• Closely consider how do we serve distinct populations, from Dual Enrollment/ Concurrent to non-traditional students, including returning students with some college but no degree.  
• Examine how we leverage multilingual and multicultural resources to serve our students. 
• Increase access to wrap-around services to increase enrollment, successful outcomes, and partnership. 

Disruption

Disruptive change management is innovation elevated. It responds to disruptive trends in the industry, even supply-side disruptive trends (i.e. what are our students and industry partners requiring of us that our current systems / processes can’t supply?). Disruption will serve our students and communities partners when: 

• We prepare ourselves for what is just over the horizon from the way we operate today. 
• We closely examine what firmly held practices would yield better results for our students, employees, or community if we modified them. 
• We take lessons from the innovative ‘laboratory environment’ created by the Arizona Western Entrepreneurial College. 

Revised July 2024 by tri-chairs Lorraine Stofft, Dr. Sarah Snyder, Silvia Kempton.