Strategic Planning
Employee engagement is critical for a healthy organizational culture. Currently, 40 percent of employees are considering leaving their jobs, and nearly half are not returning to the same industry (Smet et al., 2022). Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace for 2022 reports that only 21 percent of employees are engaged. In addition, daily stress has reached an all-time high. A recent study concluded that higher education workers are the second most burned out group, following K-12 employees, in the U.S. workforce (Marken & Agrawal, 2022).
We seem to be at a tipping point. As leaders,...
In spring 2020, Austin Community College District (ACC) began to develop a blueprint for updating its Academic Master Plan (AMP) with recommendations that could be supported financially and poised for the “best possible outcomes in terms of student and community success” (Austin Community College District, n.d.-a, para. 1). The new AMP was the college’s opportunity to be bold in its strategy and approach. During the early months of planning, ACC found itself dealing with the global pandemic and an immediate need to pivot to remote instruction and student support service delivery. Recognizing...
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2002
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