Visioning Team Develops College's New Strategic Planning Objectives

Wallace State Community College has developed strategic initiatives and indicators for 2007-2012.

Three years ago Wallace State Community College in Hanceville developed ambitious goals to take it through the next five years. When many of its goals were achieved in just three short years, it became immediately evident that the college needed to refocus on even more ambitious goals for the future. A President's Visioning Team made up of Wallace State faculty, staff and administrators met with an educational consultant for a two-day planning retreat on campus in February 2007. The group came away with an updated vision and new goals for the college. During the planning session, team members developed four strategic planning themes to guide the college's initiatives over the next five years--

Entrepreneurial Learning College, Innovative Learning Environments, Resource Development, and Marketing and Communication.

Visioning Team members have been divided into groups, or communities, to begin to address these issues.

The Entrepreneurial Learning College Community will develop dynamic and diverse solutions that promote excellence in teaching and learning. The Innovative Learning Environments Community will embrace emerging technologies to transform the options for learning available to students. The Resource Development Community will aggressively seek to expand the college's human, financial, and technological resources. The Marketing and Communication Community will promote local and global awareness of educational opportunities through partnerships, an online presence, and creative marketing strategies.

The new vision statement for the college that emerged from the planning session states: Wallace State Community College is a world class, internationally recognized, entrepreneurial learning college.

It will take the support of the entire college community -- students, faculty and staff, alumni and friends, business and industry leaders, civic groups and the community-at-large to make this vision a reality.

"Wallace State has made tremendous advances in the last few years. The future is extremely bright as we seek to move the college forward locally and to emerge as a global competitor," said Wallace State President Dr. Vicki Hawsey.