Strategic Planning

As faithful stewards of the public trust, Glendale Community College takes a holistic, integrated approach to strategic planning in service of our institutional mission and vision to provide quality learning experiences to all. To that end, GCC engages in proactive, diligent planning at all levels, ensuring continual improvement and the maximum effective use of resources for the benefit of our students and community.

Springing from our fundamental institutional values, our robust planning approach establishes the metrics by which we will hold ourselves accountable as we work to make our mission and vision a reality. Integrated planning at GCC includes the top-level college strategic plan, Elevate 2030, as well as College Strategic Enrollment Management (CSEM) planning, academic planning, strategic budgeting, and climate action planning. Current plans are available in the Downloads area of this page.

GCC's strategic work is organized as an integrated ecosystem of Systemwide and College-level components. The Maricopa Community Colleges priorities provide a shared framework, while our initiatives and efforts advance multiple priorities simultaneously.

At the center of this work is our commitment to student success and community impact. Surrounding this core, GCC's strategies, plans, and initiatives-such as Strategic Enrollment Management, workforce partnerships, innovation efforts, and community engagement-operate together to advance the system's priorities.

This ecosystem approach reflects how work is carried out at GCC: interconnected, collaborative, and focused on execution.

Elevate 2030 is GCC's college-wide strategic plan for January 2025 - June2030, accessible via the link included in the Downloads section on this page, below. Developed through an inclusive process, this plan leveraged the strength of shared governance and broad stakeholder engagement to define our top strategic priorities.

Recognizing the need for a structured, diligent, and integrated approach to strategy execution, GCC has devoted significant institutional energy and resources to ensure its strategic actions achieve the goals set forth in the college's strategic plan. The tool we are using to support this is our Operational Planning and Execution (OPX) framework.

Developed internally in line with best practices, OPX engages hundreds of stakeholders across the college in focused work to advance GCC's Strategic Focus Goal: Improve Student Retention. Using the OPX framework, dozens of GCC teams meet regularly to make individual commitments, report and track progress, and celebrate success toward this college-wide priority. GCC's commitment to our strategic action framework is resulting in a stronger, more integrated engagement in our efforts to better serve our students and community through access and ongoing support.

The Glendale Community College Strategic Enrollment Management Plan 2024-2027 (GCC CSEM) is GCC's college-wide strategic enrollment management plan, accessible via the link included in the Downloads section on this page. Developed through the work of GCC's CSEM initiative and workgroup, this document is to illustrate how Glendale Community Colleges (GCC), College Strategic Enrollment Management (CSEM) Plan would adopt and add the MCCCD SSEM Strategies, SSEM College Goals, and SSEM College Activities. GCC identified milestones to support each SSEM College Activity in their college level plan. GCC also identified some additional strategies, goals, activities, and milestones to support college level strategic initiatives in the plan.

Executing the strategy outlined in Elevate 2028 requires an inclusive and engaging approach to ensure all constituents have the opportunity to share their ideas as we engage in this concerted effort to implement a plan for our future. If you would like to schedule a meeting or listening session, please contact us at [email protected] to coordinate a time that works for you and your group to ensure your ideas are heard and integrated into our strategic work at GCC.