Rhode Island College Strategic Compass
The 2024 Rhode Island College Strategic Compass outlines five key goals: 1. Student-Centered Ecosystem: Building a supportive ecosystem to improve student success, eliminate equity gaps, and reduce engagement disparities. 2. Professional Development: Investing in faculty and staff through professional development to enhance institutional transformation. 3. High-Performing & Effective Organization: Modernizing operational practices and core systems to increase efficiency and improve service. 4. Hispanic-Serving Institution: Embracing the HSI designation to ensure equitable opportunities for Hispanic students. 5. Connections Beyond the Campus: Strengthening community engagement, partnerships, and alumni relations to enhance the college's impact. The plan prioritizes improving student support systems, fostering collaboration, enhancing data infrastructure, modernizing operational systems, and strengthening community engagement. It emphasizes the importance of institutional values such as academic quality, diversity, equity, inclusion, student agency, empowerment, collaboration, accountability, and community.