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6-Year Strategic Plan

VALUES

Community

Opportunity

Inclusion

Learning

Student-Centeredness

Coils

Coils Word Cloud

Coils have been instrumental throughout history to make connections, ignite energy, and facilitate movement. Coiling is also a pottery technique that originated in Mexico 4,000 years ago, allowing potters to hand-forge bowls with a thicker, stronger structure. The coils can be joined seamlessly, signifying that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. At WVC, our values and history connect us, spark enrergy, and produce momentum. When we demostrate our values, we know that we are stronger together.  

Mission

Wenatchee Valley College enriches North Central Washington and delivers relevant, innovative, and experiential educational opportunities for thriving and healthy communities. 

Vision

Wenatchee Valley College transforms lives, strengthens communities, fosters inclusive excellence, and is the higher education institution of choice for North Central Washington and beyond.  

Shape the future of higher education in North Central Washington.

Background

The 2024-2030 strategic plan was largely developed from internal input and data from Our Valley Our Future.

For WVC’s new strategic plan, community voices were a significant part of its development. With a service district of 10,000 square miles (Chelan, Douglas, and Okanogan counties), Wenatchee Valley College visited communities to gain insights rather than expecting them to come to us.

WVC Priorities
  1. Strengthen financial resiliency for quality programs and operations.  
  2. Build a systematic organizational and budget model that is inclusive, transparent, and based on identified priorities. 
  3. Increase stewardship to ensure sustainability and achieve goals. 
  4. Develop innovative business revenue enterprise arm of the college to generate additional resources.  
  1. Foster open and ethical communication, information sharing, and inquiry. 
  2. Provide leadership and opportunities for faculty and staff development and advancement.  
  3. Broaden opportunities for employees at all levels to influence and contribute to positive change. 
  4. Encourage employee growth, wellness, and vitality. 
  5. Support faculty and staff learning and scholarship to ensure quality, meaning, and purpose. 
  1. Integrate high-impact practices to engage and support students. 
  2. Ensure programs and offerings provide seamless pathways and opportunities for all students. 
  3. Create a sense of belonging for students through cultural responsiveness. 
  4. Develop and execute a comprehensive Strategic Engagement, Enrollment, Retention, and Completion plan. 
  1. Align program pathways and curricular offerings for clarity, efficiency, and efficacy from entry to achievement of student goals. 
  2. Deliver degrees and programs that are responsive to community interests and labor market demand. 
  3. Build and sustain programs that lead to a living wage, improved socioeconomic status, or efficient transfer. 
  4. Empower faculty to incorporate creativity, collaboration, and technology to advance transformational learning. 
  5. Utilize culturally responsive pedagogies to improve equitable student success.
  1. Deploy a growth mindset to remove institutional barriers to ensure that all students succeed.  
  2. Develop campus and community programs to attract and retain underrepresented groups. 
  3. Direct resources based on transparent metrics. 
  4. Monitor and leverage data to ensure equity for all student groups. 
  1. Cultivate authentic, trustworthy, and transformative relationships with community stakeholders.  
  2. Center outreach and engagement efforts across the region to increase and expand awareness. 
  3. Advance the role of the college as a workforce and economic growth contributor and a responsive community partner. 

 

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