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VCCS Strategic Plan 2027 Task Force

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Subcommittees

Topic Subcommittees:

  • Reimagining Funding and Finance to Build a Transformative Community College: Evaluate the various funding models that drive resources across and within campuses. This includes but is not limited to reviewing funding for workforce programs, exploring flexible models of tuition and fees to reflect demand and cost, financing equitable outcomes for all students, and considering how to restructure the current system to better serve students.
    • Members: Adam Hutchinson, Tom Canupp, Will Johnson, Doug Garcia
    • Support Staff: Ellen Davenport, Cat Finnegan

  • Student Supports to Foster Success from Access to Completion: Ensure that students have the financial and non-financial support necessary from entry to completion. This includes access to basic needs (food security, housing and technology) and intrusive advising and academic support.
    • Members: Terricita Sass, Christopher D. Lee, Marcia Conston, Joe Hagy, Julie Combs
    • Support Staff: Van Wilson, Nicole Stewart, Carla Kimbrough

  • Meaningful Credentials and the Future of Work: Build quality pathways that provide value, foster upward economic mobility, and lead to future educational opportunities and credentials that are responsive to the changing demands of the workforce.
    • Members: John A. Downey, Peggy Layne, Corey McCray, Ian Taylor
    • Support Staff: Randy Stamper, Jeffrey Kraus, Lance Billard

  • Reimagining Teaching and Learning: Create adult-focused, student-centered strategies that are responsive to the changing needs of students with an intentional eye to equity and innovation.
    • Members: Cynthia Deutsch, Paula Pando, Eric Vanover, Michelle Edmonds, Quentin Johnson
    • Support Staff: Cat Finnegan, Sheri L. Prupis, Malinda Carter

Equity Leadership Committee:

Comprised of one member from each subcommittee, the committee will work to ensure a consistent and aligned focus on equality across the strategic plan and help to identify the key policies and practices that need to be reviewed to ensure equity is achieved across all goals and strategies identified by each topic subcommittee.

  • Members: Marcia Conston, Doug Garcia, Corey McCray, Paula Pando 
  • Support Staff: Cat Finnegan, Carla Kimbrough