Mission Statement

Counseling programs and additional services which:

We will shape a learning community which blends the traditional focus on content with the development of additional skills that learners need to contribute successfully to our contemporary, multi-cultural society by:

• Effectively developing a sense of community
• Encouraging collaboration
• Making all members of the college community active partners with shared responsibility in the learning experience
• Developing appropriate skills to promote lifelong learning
• Supporting collaborative learning and problem solving within the classroom, across the college and throughout the district

We will continue to support student success by:

• Developing, evaluating, and improving our educational programs and services
• Assisting students in setting their educational goals and evaluating progress toward them
• Utilizing continual assessment to improve the student learning experience.

We will promote ongoing professional and personal growth by:

• Providing orientation for all full and part-time employees
• Providing opportunities, resources, and mentoring

We will foster an increasingly diverse and inclusive learning community by:

• Communicating and building better relationships with the communities we serve
• Decreasing systemic financial, geographic, academic, physical, personal and cultural barriers to make the campus more accessible and inviting
• Attracting, hiring, retaining, and supporting a highly qualified, multi-faceted staff
• Preparing and encouraging students to contribute successfully to our contemporary, multi-cultural society

We will work collaboratively, as active partners in the learning community, on behalf of the common good of the College and District. We will take responsibility, both individually and collectively, to engage in shared decision-making by:

• Improving and sustaining an environment of mutual respect, confidence, support and trust
• Communicating, interacting and building teams within and across constituencies
• Ensuring timely, effective communication
• Making intentional, conscientious, thoughtful, and timely decisions

We will pro actively and innovatively support the learning community with physical resources (buildings, grounds, learning stations, instructional space, and equipment) by:

• Making the campus more accessible, inviting, safe, and physically attractive to a diverse population
• Maintaining, reconfiguring, and developing classrooms, laboratories and other facilities to promote collaborative learning
• Sharing our physical resources more effectively
• Using technologies that help us transcend the limitations of the physical environment by thinking of the community as the classroom
• Promoting the College campus as a resource to the community and viewing the community as a resource for the College

We will proactively and innovatively fund our learning community by:

• Engaging in strategic financial planning
• Securing appropriate alternative sources of funding
• Allocating resources through fiscal policies, priorities, and processes that support institutional goals