Our Vision

Through strong community bonds and a commitment to inquiry, innovation, and lifelong learning, we will create an environment in which all people thrive.

By 2030, ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ will advance our mission by being uncompromisingly Student Driven, Future Focused, Community Connected, and Organizationally Resilient.

Student Driven

Charge: Facilitate strong interpersonal connections, provide personalized support, and design and deliver high-quality learning experiences to boost unimpeded access to higher education pathways, academic engagement, and student success.

Expand access to educational opportunities.

• Foster a college-going culture within our communities by expanding early outreach, mentorship, and career exploration and development opportunities.
• Anchor signature programs aligned with workforce and community priorities at SF’s educational centers, and ensure students enrolling at centers benefit from SF’s full array of support services.
• Create clear paths for upskilling and reskilling, and increase outreach to communicate opportunities to move between non-credit and credit-bearing programs.
• Develop flexible learning models, credit for prior learning frameworks, and other seamless and accelerated pathways toward a credential.
• Reduce student debt by developing cost-savings and financial support initiatives.

Provide seamless, comprehensive support designed to advance every learner’s participation and achievement.

• Improve student access to services when, where, and how students need and want them.
• Centralize and streamline student services through physical and virtual one-stop models.
• Ensure all points of access provide students with the same level of service excellence.
• Use technology to provide timely, coordinated support for every student, including options for self-service.
• Embed career planning and preparation into initial experiences and throughout curriculum.

Enhance student engagement and belonging.

• Adopt inclusive practices that welcome, enhance well-being, and provide support for the whole student to foster resilience, learning, and achievement.
• Increase intentional touchpoints from pre-admission to beyond graduation, and implement integrated systems and case management to promote institutional connection and belonging.
• Cultivate strong connections with and between students, including increased opportunities for student-to-student mentoring, peer coaching, and student-organized teamwork.
• Design experiences and spaces to elicit a sense of institutional belonging and strengthen peer-to-peer relationships.
• Amplify student voices in assessing learning and support.

Ensure students experience high-quality learning, regardless of their selected paths, modalities, or locations.

• Embrace high-impact practices that facilitate transformative learning experiences.
• Curate educational experiences to ensure students inevitably encounter highly beneficial practices.
• Expand robust professional development offerings appropriate for a learning college.
• Improve pedagogy designed for online and hybrid learners.
• Provide superior online and in-person support for learning and academic achievement.

Future Focused

Charge: Ensure that students are ready to meet the future by cultivating a creative, forward-thinking learning environment that anticipates and adapts agilely to an evolving world and focuses on continuous improvement.

Champion forward-thinking teaching and learning to ready students for the future.

• Prepare our students to be technology-savvy, digital citizens and adaptable, curious life-long learners.
• Design innovative curricula to ensure students develop future-forward skills adaptable to changing environments and ways of working.
• Ensure professional development opportunities and training remain up to date with emerging technologies and current best practices.
• Identify successful pedagogical practices through assessment and research, and scale these practices across the institution to benefit more students and faculty.
• Develop pathways for meaningful co-curricular learning linked to program outcomes or career competencies.

Leverage design and technology to support modern, engaging learning environments.

• Optimize the use of physical spaces to better support collaboration, growth, and innovation.
• Create adaptable settings for collaborative activities, flexible teaching approaches, and active learning.
• Invest in cutting-edge technology to support future-focused academic programs.
• Prioritize future flexibility and strategic aims in developing physical space and technology utilization plans.

Promote a workplace culture that values collaboration, creativity, experimentation, and agility to innovate and improve.

• Foster a risk-tolerant culture where experimentation and learning from failures are encouraged, shared, and valued.
• Engage the expertise of employees to pursue solutions to challenges and drive continuous improvement.
• Align college processes and resources to support innovation and improvement.
• Provide resources for pilot projects and prototypes that test new ideas and technologies.
• Increase agility in developing new programs and services responsive to change and opportunity.

Community Connected

Charge: Make community engagement a hallmark of our culture, deepening our relationships and partnerships to advance the public good.

Drive workforce development and economic opportunity in our region to build strong, sustainable communities.

• Become the trainer of choice for regional employers, developing flexible, targeted learning opportunities to meet specific skill or industry needs.
• Catalyze economic mobility through collaborations with external partners.
• Partner with government and civic agencies to attract employers to the region.
• Work with regional employers and advisory boards to regularly update curricula to meet emerging needs.
• Expand practical learning opportunities through job shadowing, internships, externships, and apprenticeships.

Support lifelong learning opportunities.

• Connect community members of all ages to the college through personal enrichment and leisure programs, language programs, and skills training.
• Collaborate with educational partners to promote a college-going culture and post-secondary educational options.
• Create signature events to support community-based learning.
• Cultivate alumni engagement, and develop enduring relationships with graduates.
• Market the college’s rich array of learning opportunities.

Cultivate a culture of community service and civic engagement as integral to the student and employee experience.

• Liaise with regionally based community groups to forge connections and collaboration.
• Expand service-learning programs collegewide to meet community needs.
• Connect students with volunteer opportunities that deepen co-curricular learning and skills development.
• Create an inventory of employees’ current service to identify and promote strategic opportunities for public service.

Organizationally Resilient

Charge: Foster a supportive, empowering, and sustainable workplace culture and engage in intentional organizational development to drive positive student outcomes and better serve our communities.

Build a thriving work environment.

• Initiate and sustain employee engagement through improved institutional onboarding and orientation, ongoing communities of practice, and regular team-building opportunities to advance SF’s mission and values.
• Establish a comprehensive development program to ensure employees feel valued, connected, and equipped to thrive.
• Ensure every employee benefits from a regular, meaningful evaluation process that leads to growth and is supported by robust professional development.
• Create pathways to increase opportunities for internal advancement and programs that support leadership development and promotion.
• Expand the wellness program to better cultivate employees’ physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Advance operational excellence.

• Optimize purposeful allocation of institutional resources to ensure responsiveness to changing conditions and needs, and to support educational quality, manageable workloads, healthy environments, and sustainable operations.
• Strengthen infrastructure to support increased cross-departmental collaboration, communication, assessment, and action planning.
• Simplify administrative tasks and streamline processes to free up time and resources for more purposeful work.
• Embrace sustainable practices, green initiatives, and renewable resources to be good stewards of the environment and conserve resources.
• Increase transparency in decision-making, resource allocation, and communication college-wide.

Additional Resources

• ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ's Mission and Values
• SF Strategic Plan 2025-2030 brochure