Advance equitable student success and belonging by institutionalizing data-informed practices that reduce disproportionate outcome gaps, strengthen student connectedness, and ensure students receive the academic and support resources necessary to achieve their educational goals.

• Strengthen professional development focused on inclusive and accessible teaching, student engagement, belonging, and effective support practices
• Continue scaling proven practices such as OER/ZTC, Caring Campus, Student Success Teams, and other interventions shown to improve equitable outcomes.
• Strengthen the use and completion of comprehensive Student Educational Plans and proactive advising for students who are off-path or at risk of stopping out.

Expand and modernize workforce-aligned educational pathways that prepare students for living-wage careers and economic mobility while strengthening Las Positas College’s role as a premier workforce-development partner for the Tri-Valley region.

• Deepen strategic partnerships with employers, industry, labor, public-sector organizations, and regional workforce partners.
• Expand apprenticeships, internships, work-based learning, and other experiential-learning opportunities across academic and career pathways.
• Strengthen LPC employer advisory boards and develop clearer and meaningful connections among academic programs and business and industry partners.

Institutionalize a coordinated basic-needs and student well-being framework that reduces nonacademic barriers to persistence and completion by improving access to food, housing, financial aid, mental-health resources, and other essential student supports.

• Increase financial-aid awareness and participation among eligible students.
• Work with the LPC Foundation and community partners to generate additional philanthropic support for student emergency assistance and basic needs.
• Strengthen partnerships with community organizations, public agencies, and philanthropic partners to expand resources available to students.
• Continue advancing viable partnerships and options addressing student housing insecurity.

Position Las Positas College for sustainable growth and fiscal stability in the post–Hold Harmless environment by aligning enrollment, SCFF performance, staffing, resource allocation, and strategic priorities through disciplined planning.

• Conduct regular executive-level reviews of budget performance, enrollment, FTES, and key SCFF supplemental and student-success metrics.
• Establish and consistently apply clear criteria for evaluating new investments, continuation of initiatives, resource reallocations, and potential disinvestments.
• Reduce dependence on one-time resources for ongoing institutional commitments.
• Expand discretionary resources through grants, Foundation fundraising, partnerships, and other appropriate revenue opportunities.

Strengthen organizational capacity and institutional health by improving employee retention, developing leadership at all levels, strengthening succession planning and accountability, and fostering a collaborative workplace culture that enables employees to advance student success.

• Establish leadership-development opportunities for administrators, faculty leaders, classified professionals, and emerging leaders.
• Develop succession and operational-continuity plans for critical institutional functions and leadership positions.
• Continue efforts to improve employee communication, cross-divisional collaboration, workload management, wellness, and organizational effectiveness.
• Review institutional processes and technology for opportunities to reduce unnecessary workload, duplication, and administrative barriers.

Advance academic excellence and Vision 2030 by strengthening the complete student journey—from outreach and enrollment through persistence, completion, transfer, and employment—using holistic enrollment management, academic and career pathways, and data-informed student support.

• Scale Student Success Teams, proactive advising, and other coordinated supports that help students remain on their educational pathways.
• Continue expanding dual enrollment and strengthening partnerships with Tri-Valley TK–12 districts.
• Strengthen transfer pathways and institutional partnerships with CSU, UC, and other four-year institutions, including continued development of the UC Merced partnership where appropriate.
• Advance innovative degree, certificate, transfer, and workforce opportunities where supported by student demand, institutional capacity, and labor-market evidence.

• Excellence is the quality of being outstanding in all that we do
• Equity, in college, after college, and for ALL students

Aligns with Educational Master Plan: Goal A: Educational Excellence, Goal B: Community Collaboration, Goal C: Supportive Organizational Resources, Goal D: Organizational Effectiveness, & Goal E: Equity and Anti-Racism

• Focus on access through outreach and recruitment efforts
• Deepen engagement with local school districts to increase academic preparedness for high school students planning to enter Las Positas College and to promote the opportunities offered by the College
• Prioritize efforts to increase student persistence and retention by assisting students to develop a stronger sense of belonging and connectedness to the college

Aligns with Educational Master Plan: Goal A: Educational Excellence, & Goal B: Community Collaboration.

• Strategically pursue and support initiatives that strengthen the financial stability of Las Positas College, while institutionalizing support for programs and services that have demonstrated success
• Develop processes and institutional supports to pursue, coordinate and manage alternative revenue sources

Aligns with Educational Master Plan: Goal C: Supportive Organizational Resources

• Ensure equitable access to relevant professional development opportunities for all college personnel in support of student learning, equity, anti-racism, accessibility, organizational readiness, and institutional effectiveness
• Prioritize efforts to increase equity through decision-making, accountability, programming, and professional development
• Nurture a campus-wide culture of rigorous attention to equity and anti-racist practices.

Aligns with Educational Master Plan: Goal D: Organizational Effectiveness & Goal E: Equity and Anti-Racism

• Develop and promote practices and services that support student health, safety, and wellness
• Expand practices and processes that promote safety and wellness for all members of the campus community in response to ongoing and emerging community needs

Aligns with Educational Master Plan: Goal A: Educational Excellence & Goal D: Organizational Effectiveness