With enrollment and census day behind them, Allen Community College (ACC) board members are taking a deep breath.
However, the time for relaxation is short-lived. At Thursday night’s board meeting the focus was on the future.
“We are looking to the future, long range,” president John Masterson said.
A key element to moving forward is having a plan. The performance agreement for 2013-2015 was presented.
The areas the college will need to enhance within those dates are:
• Increase credit hours completed in online learning.
• Improve graduation, plus transfer-out rate for full-time cohorts.
• Improve the percentage of students who complete the initial college level writing course with a C or better.
• Increase the number of students awarded an Associates Science degree.
• Improve the percentage of students who complete the initial 17 KRSN identified nurses with a C or better.
• Increase fall-to-fall retention rate for full-time students.
• Increase total number of articulation or 2+2 agreements with Kansas Regents universities.
“I am definitely confident in the last one and the first one,” Masterson said. “And we only need four out of the seven.”
ALONG WITH achieving the goals outlined in the performance agenda, the college will be looking to increase housing, according to Masterson.
“For us to grow this campus we will have to increase housing,” he said.
Expansion would not only affect the college, but the community as well.
