Goal 5: Better serve a diverse current and prospective student population
Tactic 01
Hire and retain a diverse workforce that represents our community
- Develop recruitment strategies to attract diverse candidate pools
- Develop effective candidate selection strategies
- Develop effective retention strategies
- Evaluate current programming and practices
Tactic 02
Increase the cultural competency of faculty, staff, and students
- Develop additional initiatives to create a more inclusive or culturally responsive campus environment (For example, increase designated global study sections, develop sta professional development trainings, and increase cultural experience/ events on campus)
- Orientation of employees and students to build cultural competency
Tactic 03
Identify ways to improve recruitment, and enrollment, retention, and completion of underrepresented students
- Collect and evaluate data that is representative of various student populations
- Secure dedicated funding for meaningful scholarships for a diverse student body
- Evaluate current programming and practices and identify and pilot new initiatives that promote best practices
- Drive greater Hispanic enrollment, getting to 20%, with an eventual goal of 25%, which would make PPCC a Hispanic Serving Institution
- Create a staff , faculty, student and community advisory team to devise tactics to make that happen
- Grow military (and military family) retention and completion rates