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Academic Affairs, Continuing Education, and Workforce Development (AACEWD) Master Plan 2020-2025

Theme I: Educational Excellence

Goal: To enhance educational excellence, ensuring that students are developing the skills, awareness, and
knowledge needed to attain their academic, professional and/or personal goals.

Strategic Priority 1: Expand Guided Pathways to improve student retention and completion

Desired Outcomes:
1. Increase student retention and success
2. Decrease time towards degree completion
3. Implement a lifecycle student advising model in collaboration with Counseling & Advising

Timeline Action Item
FY 20 Identify appropriate opportunities and develop curricula needed to assist in credit/non-credit pathway transitions
Develop maintenance standards and articulation agreement integration processes for transfer pathways

Research best practices in faculty advising
Expand milestone report usage and create clearer milestone implementation expectations
Create Pathways 'style guide', implement improved pathways with scheduling built in

Implement full year scheduling
Create audit process for ensuring website accuracy
Create faculty resources regarding best practices with intervention courses
Implement withdrawal advising system

Review enrollment process (with a focus on how non-native speakers experience it). Prepare recommendations on how
to reduce barriers to enrollment
FY 21 Educate relevant stakeholder and develop appropriate materials highlighting new opportunities in cred/non-credit
transitions.
Develop transfer pathways for remaining programs

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