Thank you for taking a moment to read the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Strategic Plan for 2007-2010.  This plan clearly communicates RCCC’s strategic goals for the next three years as we endeavor to serve the citizens, industry and businesses of Rowan and Cabarrus counties.

    This plan will guide the growth of our multi-campus institution, help us set budget priorities, and support us as the foundation of our institutional effectiveness program.

    There is no inevitable future waiting to happen.  By involving people in a comprehensive process of discerning future trends already evident in the present, a collaborative energy is created that frames a strategic direction toward a preferred future.  The process of developing this plan involved both the comprehensive internal collaboration of faculty and staff, as well as external focus groups of stakeholders.  By re-examining the mission of the college within a framework of rapid technological and economic change, we developed this strategic three-year plan to guide the college into the future.

    The 2007-2010 Strategic Plan is the latest outcome of a comprehensive strategic process that has been ongoing for nearly three decades. Throughout the years, strategic vision became reality by creating partnerships with political and business leaders.  That strategic process transformed a small, one-county technical institute into a large, comprehensive community college – the first multi-campus, two-county college in North Carolina.  Strategic partnerships with businesses and industries, school systems, other colleges, chambers of commerce, and economic development commissions promoted economic growth and supported a continuing expansion of college facilities to meet burgeoning regional demands. College leaders, by strategically collaborating with business leaders, forecast workforce development needs in the region to serve as a basis for our program planning.

    The strategic planning process has become more complex and comprehensive as it has evolved.  The process now includes the grassroots collaboration of more than 300 people, working in committees at all levels of the college.  In early 2006, the college appointed a Strategic Planning Committee and charged it with drafting a three-year Strategic Plan that integrated the work of all supplementary institutional committees and institutional effectiveness activities throughout the college. This comprehensive and collaborative process produced the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Strategic Plan for 2007-2010. 

    Thank you for your support of RCCC, as we carry out our mission of workforce development and providing diverse opportunities for higher learning.