Strategic Plan In Progress
Strategic Planning Creation Committee
This committee is charged with facilitating the creation of the 2026-2029 strategic plan. The committee will host sessions for faculty, staff, students, and the community to receive feedback about the future strategic plan. In addition, the committee will review data and feedback collected to create overall summaries and suggest overall themes, SMART goals, and additional actions. Moreover, the committee will champion, take back ideas and edits to their departments and institutions for feedback and collaboration.
This committee will review and suggest edits to the appropriate committees for the strategic plan that:
- brings a wide-range of stakeholder input and feedback;
- reviews past tactic plans, district data, current district initiatives, surveys, and best practices in strategic planning;
- creates themes with measurable SMART goals, budgets, and future champions of data;
- focuses on the HLC, third-party accreditations, higher education trends, employment trends, and state requirements when offering suggestions and edits.
This team will make recommendations to the following committees:
- Leadership Council
- Academic Leadership Council
- Senior Leadership Team
- Student Development Council
The Senior Leadership Team will have the final recommendations for the overall strategic plan.
The committee will stay within the state and HLC requirements for the strategic planning outline and best practices. Suggestions and edits will also reflect on the overall mission of EICC.
- Co-Leads: Brian Kelly and Megan Hills
- Open to SLT members/Board members
- Gabe Knight
- Julie Howar
- Nikki Gullion
- Scott Schneider
- Ann Eisenman
- Cory Holloway
- Kendra Schaapveld
- Sarah Dorathy
- Nicky Friedrichsen
- Erin Snyder
- Lori Haugen
- Steven Cravens
- Mike Beane
- Jessica Darland
- Jane Haugland
- Andrea Williams
- Audrey Adelson
- Megan Edens
- John Dabeet
- Tom Arends
- Dan Dankert
- Brandon Lange
- Erica Ewert
- Justin Sampson
- Cheryl Welsh
- Heather Evans
- Alyse Schmidt
- Shari Ruehling
- Alex Batten
How You Can Get Involved:
Strategic Plan 2021-25, 2026-29 Timeline
September 2024
| 2021-25 Plan | The tactic report is complete for goals for 24-25 school year and will be reviewed by the Senior Leadership team. |
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| 2026-29 Plan | The HLC Strategic Planning group hosts a workshop for the EICC Leadership Group on the overall concepts and pieces to a strategic plan (9/18) |
October 2024
| 2021-25 Plan | HLC Visit—staff, faculty, and administration can speak about the processes, examples, and overall plan when asked throughout the sessions. |
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November 2024
| 2021-25 Plan | Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment meets virtually with Champions of Data to review goals of data summaries, utilizing the tactic report from September 2024. Collects the correct evidence for state review. |
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| 2026-29 Plan |
Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment works with Senior Leadership to decide who should be on the core strategic planning committee for the next plan. Initial core strategic planning committee meeting |
January 2025
| 2021-25 Plan | Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment meets virtually with Champions of Data to review goals of data summaries and prepares presentation for the state review. |
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February 2025
| 2021-25 Plan | State review |
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| 2026-29 Plan | Preparing for the initial meetings of the core strategic planning meetings and holding meetings with the core strategic planning group. |
March 2025
| 2021-25 Plan | Teams continue to input on tactic sheets |
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| 2026-29 Plan |
Continue to meet with the core strategic planning group to discuss overall strategic plan timelines, general themes, and how to gather input
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April 2025
| 2021-25 Plan | Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment meets virtually with Champions of Data to finish qualitative summaries. |
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| 2026-29 Plan |
Continue to meet with the core strategic planning group to discuss overall strategic plan timelines, general themes, how to gather input, and creating goals/data measurements
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May 2025
| 2021-25 Plan | Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment finalizes the summaries of qualitative data and sends to Senior Leadership Team to review. |
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| 2026-29 Plan |
Continue to meet with the core strategic planning group to discuss overall strategic plan timelines, general themes, how to gather input, and creating goals/data measurements
Meet with key committees (leadership council, ALC, Senior Leadership, etc.) to go over overall created strategic plan for feedback on overall pillars, champions of goals, and measurements of goals |
June 2025
| 2021-25 Plan | Present to the board updates on the 2021-2025 plan |
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| 2026-29 Plan | First reading and presentation of the 2026-2030 strategic plan |
July 2025
| 2026-29 Plan | Second reading and vote of the 2026-2030 strategic plan |
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August 2025
| 2026-29 Plan |
The plan goes out onto websites and shared with the community Plan is shared with faculty and staff at all campus events |
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Fall 2025
| 2026-29 Plan |
New plan starts, data collection begins Champions of the areas in the new strategic plans will start to reach out to departments and specific areas to talk through a data collection plan, how to communicate updates, and how to correlate the strategic plan goals to main projects and budget. Director of Strategic Initiatives and Assessment will report out on the overall plan on how to share out updates on qualitative and quantitative data after listening to feedback from the Champions on how their teams will collect data towards goals, projects, and budget. |
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