District-Wide Planning
District-wide planning guides the ongoing development of educational and support programs that are accessible and relevant to the communities that we serve. NOCCCD recognizes that long-term and short-term planning, coupled with effective decision-making, is vital to student success and institutional performance.
The overarching purpose of planning is to provide clear strategies to further the District’s educational goals with respect to academic programs, support services, and facilities. District-wide planning practices demonstrate institutional effectiveness by following a cycle of evaluation, development of goals and objectives, resource allocation, plan implementation, and re-evaluation.
Each of the three educational entities within the District — Cypress College, Fullerton College, and North Orange Continuing Education — has their own internal processes for planning and evaluation. These plans are simultaneously integrated into the District-wide planning and resource allocation processes.
NOCCCD Integrated Planning Model
2020-2030 NOCCCD Strategic Directions
These Strategic Directions and Goals were updated by the Educational & Facilities Master Plan Refresh Steering Committee and are intended to guide the development of each program, project, or initiative within the District through 2030:
- Student Experience & Success: NOCCCD will provide comprehensive support, equitable opportunities, co-curricular programming, and clear pathways to ensure that students achieve their educational and career goals.
- Employee Experience: NOCCCD will provide an inclusive, equitable, and welcoming environment to support the well-being and professional growth of all employees.
- Stewardship of Resources: NOCCCD will promote a shared vision of responsible stewardship of District resources through transparent and inclusive decision-making and integrated planning.
- Collective Impact & Partnerships: NOCCCD will develop and sustain collaborative projects and partnerships with educational institutions, community-based organizations, and businesses to creative positive change in the region.
- Physical Environment & Beyond: NOCCCD will be a leader in creating both accessible and resilient facilities and well-designed flexible learning opportunities that utilize up-to-date technology and processes to support student and employee success.
Educational Initiatives
Guided by the Strategic Directions & Goals, The Educational Initiatives pave the way for success of the District in the next decade.
- Optimize student support systems
- Augment connection points between students and support services
- Consolidate spaces and opportunities for student engagement
- Conduct food service analysis to determine needs and service levels
- Enhance wayfinding within the physical and online environment
- Improve equitable transportation to campus
- Ensure equitable access to education
- Utilize direct aid to assist in equitable access
- Schedule instruction modalities that increase access
- Train and implement instructional modalities
- Develop data-driven counseling and academic pathways
- Evaluate technological needs and space use
- Establish a culture of inquiry and data-driven decision-making
- Develop student and employee services and programs
- Bolster curriculum, instruction, training and service programs supporting DEIAA objectives
- Collect data on the effectiveness of established programs related to transfer time or to attain degrees
- Continued expansion of the Dual Enrollment program
- Streamline partnerships across additional local K-12 institutions
- Expand campus marketing efforts to foster a strong sense of community
- Raise brand awareness throughout the state
- Explore partnerships to expand and impact programs
- Strategically leverage available data resources across the District to inform spatial impacts to enrollment
- Expand participation in industry advisory committees
- Prioritize training for in-demand skills sought by local and regional industries
- Continue and expand new mentorship programs with local industry employers and alumni
- Develop modern educational and experiential methods and tools
- Empower a committee to establish the guidelines for implementable and scalable sustainability goals
- Support and enhance curriculum, instruction, training and services programs to implement objectives
- Evaluate spaces to determine adaptive reuse opportunities
- Integrate sustainable education opportunities
- Foster sustainable transportation practices
Campus Planning
Related Plans, Policies & Procedures
Developed collaboratively with a vibrant and engaged three-campus community, the purpose of the Comprehensive Master Plan is to guide the District through 2030, and serve as the measuring stick by which future educational programs and facilities investments will be evaluated.
NOCCCD adopted a contemporary approach to develop its District-wide Strategic Plan to shift from a rigid approach to planning to a more flexible and adaptable guide focused by our values, beliefs, and sense of purpose.
Developed collaboratively between all three campus communities serving as one, the purpose of this document is to provide updated and refreshed guidance for the District through 2030 and serve as the measuring stick by which future educational programs and facilities investments will be evaluated.
The SEP provides a coordinated roadmap to help NOCCCD anticipate population changes, support program innovation that reflects community and regional opportunities, and strengthen student pathways across its three institutions, Cypress College, Fullerton College, and North Orange Continuing Education (NOCE).
This report summarizes the actions taken by all four entities in the District: Cypress College, District Services, Fullerton College, and NOCE toward achieving the District Strategic Directions as well as the objectives described in the District-wide Strategic Plan.
Decision Making Resource Manual
- Resource
The purpose of this resource manual is to describe how decisions are made in the North Orange County Community College District. It has been developed with the goal of improving communication and trust across NOCCCD. These decision-making processes reflect the mechanisms by which NOCCCD ensures that there are opportunities for meaningful collaboration and that the voices of the constituent groups are heard in making decisions.
Integrated Planning Manual
- Manual
- Plan
The purpose of the North Orange County Community College District Integrated Planning Manual is to guide institutional planning District-wide. The processes described in this document identify the ways that constituent groups participate in, and contribute to, District-wide long-term and short-term planning and how the planning processes are linked to one another.
Budget Allocation Handbook
- Manual
The NOCCCD Budget Allocation Handbook provides a detailed description of the process used by the District to allocate resources.
Related Board Policies and Administrative Procedures
Our Staff
Jennifer Vega La Serna
Vice Chancellor, Educational Services & Institutional Effectiveness
