Strategic Plan

Advance achievement of learning outcomes and educational goals for all students.

• Implement a collegewide early alert system to increase student retention and graduation.
• Increase the fall to fall retention rate of college credit students to 55%.
• Increase the college completion rate to 47%.
• Increase the percentage of transfers holding an HCC associate degree to 25%.
• Equal or exceed the grade point average of native Florida public university students by associate in arts transfers.
• Achieve or exceed an 85% first‐time pass rate for any individual licensure or certification exam.
• Exceed 90% of all workforce graduates that are employed or continuing their education within one year of completion.

Foster partnerships that position all programs as catalysts for regional economic impact.

• Contribute to the increase in educational attainment in Hillsborough County of those holding a postsecondary credential to 60% of the working age population by 2025.
• Develop and implement the first baccalaureate degree no later than 2025 to meet local labor market demand in nursing.
• Expand public‐private funding partnerships to support programmatic delivery.
• Develop a comprehensive marketing strategy.

Continuously improve programs and services through a systematic and ongoing process of strategic planning, assessment and evaluation in which a “culture of evidence” guides our direction.

• Design and execute an Academic Master Plan that anticipates and responds to community needs.
• Enact systemic changes that align college operations, budgets, and tactical plans with the mission, values, goals and strategic initiatives.
• Successfully comply with the revised 2017 Principles of Accreditation of the Commission on Colleges during the Fifth Year Review concluding in 2022.
• Reassess the adequacy of the Ellucian Colleague ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning Software) to meet college need.