1. LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY
COLLEGE DISTRICT
STRATEGIC PLANNING KICK-OFF
The Road To Strategic Plan 2012 - 2017
May 24, 2011

2. VISION 2017
Next Exit
Road To STRATEGIC PLAN 2012-2017
AGENDA

3. AGENDA
Chancellor’s Welcome and Introductions
Committee Charge, Vision, and Timeline
Status and Evaluation of the Current Strategic
Plan
Follow-up Accreditation Action Plans

4. OBJECTIVES
 Reach consensus on the timeline
and vision
 Review and validate evaluation of
the 2006-2011 plan
 Reach consensus on those parts of
the old plan we want to keep
 Agree on who owns the follow-up
accreditation action plans and the
timeline for completing it.

5. COMMITTEE CHARGE
To develop a comprehensive strategic plan for the Los
Angeles Community College District that will articulate a
shared mission and vision for the nine LACCD colleges and
establish a clear series of District goals, implementation
strategies, and benchmarks that can be used to guide local
college planning efforts.

6. VISION AND TIMELINE

7. STRATEGIC PLANNING
Strategic planning consists of the
answers to a series of questions:
Mission: Who are we? What is the
LACCD about?
Vision: Where do we want to go?
Goals: What do we need to do to
get there?

8. FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS
•Where are we now? (Assessment)
• Where do we need to be? (Gap / Future End
State)
• How will we close the gap? (Strategic Plan)
• How will we monitor our progress? (Outcome
Measures)

9. 10 STEP Process
1. Planning Process
2. Initial Assessment
3. External Scan and Analysis
4. Internal Scan and Analysis
5. Preliminary Report on Planning Themes
6. External and Internal Focus Groups and Online
Forum
7. District-wide Strategic Goals
8. District-wide Strategic Initiatives
9. Links to College Strategic Plans
10.Periodic Assessment Process

10. COMMON ERRORS
• The assumption that you can do without a strategic plan, and figure it
out as you go along.
•Creating a strategic plan without the participation of the people
whose buy-in is needed for it to become a reality.
•Making decisions about the content of a strategic plan without
consensus.
•Having a strategic plan focus on short term problems, or problems
that can be solved quickly or relatively easy.
•The strategic plan is too wordy, general or abstract.
•Stopping with vision and not following up with strategies and action
plans.

11. STATUS OF THE CURRENT PLAN
Background to 2006-11 District
Strategic Plan
•Developed in 2005
•Response to accreditation need
•Set up planning framework including:
•Cycle of activities and reports
•Oversight District Planning Committee
• (DSP)
•Developed 5 goals and 33 objectives
•Utilized a variety of outcome measures
•Example: Effectiveness Report

12. STATUS OF THE CURRENT PLAN
•Conducted summative assessment and
score card (handouts)
•DPC Recommendations
•Continue Goals and Objectives

13. Recommendations for 2012 plan
Limited number of goals and objectives
Prioritize goals (e.g., fiscal stability, student
success)
Consider goals more closed related to
LACCD core mission
Utilize common and well understood
measures
Associate outcomes with intentional
actions
Be able to track and reporting on
outcomes (including showing results of
these) Tracking system (IES)
Less prescriptive overall

14. Small Group Activity

15. Working Groups
 Everyone has been assigned to a working group
 Each group is asked to take at least two of the
five goals from Strategic Plan 2006-2011 to
evaluate

16. Worksheet

17. For Each Goal
In In 2011, does this goal and the objectives still
In 2011, does this goal and the objectives still
make sense? If so, what three objectives would
your group recommend keeping?
What additional questions or outstanding issues
needs to be addressed before a decision to
keep this goal for our next Strategic Plan can be
made?
2011, does this goal and the objectives still
make sense? If so, what three objectives would

18. Reporting Out
 At the end of the activity, each group will
report out the key highlights of their
discussion
 If your group did the same goal, we will ask
you to add your input
 These will be compiled for future reference

19. Identify Roles in your Group
 Organizer: keep everyone on track
 Note-taker: fill out the forms
 Reporter: report out orally at the end
 Timekeeper: keep track of time

20. Follow-up Accreditation
Action Plans

21. Thanks for your
participation!