Purpose
Planning, Policy and Analysis (PPA) provides ongoing, integrated, and evidence-based support for College-wide strategic planning and policy analysis related to institutional effectiveness and student success.
Core Functions
- College-wide strategic planning activities, metric development, monitoring, and goal reporting.
- Develop and distribute environmental scans including labor market information.
- Provide data and information to support new program development.
- Support textbook affordability initiatives.
- Analyze potential impacts of local, state, and federal policies and trends related to institutional effectiveness and student success to inform decision-making.
- Build analytical resources, reports, and methodologies to enhance decision-making.
- Collaborate with the college community to promote institutional agility by developing federated analytical capacity that leverages campus and functional unit data and planning expertise.
- Provide expert analytical support in the collection and use of evidence to develop, implement, and improve special initiatives, grant programs, and other College activities.