Strategic Plan Overview
After navigating the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, Illinois Central College is now transitioning to a place of renewal and optimism as we begin the work of implementing a new strategic plan. Building on the success of the most recent plan, we will continue working to ensure that we live out our Core Values and our mission of changing minds and changing lives. The strategic plan will build upon our vision of student success for the College and set direction, focus, and priorities for Fiscal Year 2024–28.
ICC is dedicated to the idea that we can improve the future of our community by participating in collaborative dialogue and by listening to multiple perspectives. As such, from August 2022 to February 2023, ICC conducted several strategic planning sessions where employees participated in discussions with external stakeholders and state and national experts in various content areas including community belonging, post-completion outcomes, and transformative community models. This planning process led to the ICC Community Strategic Planning Conference in March 2023 which inspired the College to generate four new Strategic Directions and Goals based on the data and lessons learned over the past five years.
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Strategic Directions
Strategic Directions are broad directions that address community needs, provide guidance for how ICC engages with and serves students, and support strategic approaches.
- Belonging: Creating community for ICC students and employees.
- Transformation: Providing education and workforce systems based on collective understanding of emerging trends and future students and community needs.
- Success: Looking beyond day-to-day challenges toward bold thinking about future student success.
- Integration: Communication and collaboration across credit, workforce, noncredit, early college, and adult education to create responsive pathways for students at ICC.
Strategic Goals
- Goal 1: Foster a sustainable culture of belonging where all stakeholders feel welcome.
- Goal 2: Adopt a more student-centric culture and build an adaptive, agile, innovative, infrastructure to meet educational and workforce needs.
- Goal 3: Improve access to resources that students need to persist and attain their educational goals.
- Goal 4: Enhance processes to improve student success and create a ONE ICC culture that supports collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.