Action Plan

Strategic Plan Objective 1.1: Invest in human, physical, and operational infrastructure to promote long-term sustainability.

Key Performance Indicator: Employee Retention Rate

Action Plan Strategies:

 

1.1.1 Increase employee retention and satisfaction through the advancement of compensation equity, clarified roles, and efficient faculty and staff resource allocation.

Performance Metric:

• Employee Retention Rate

1.1.2 Implement cost-effective innovations to improve capital asset development, maintenance, and usage to maximize the resources available to support student access and success.

Performance Metric:

• Qualitative Updates

1.1.3 Optimize leadership and structural distribution across the system office and colleges to ensure balanced decision-making, support, and implementation at scale.

Performance Metric:

• Qualitative Updates

 

Strategic Plan Objective 1.2: Expand recognition of the value of the KCTCS system and its colleges.

Key Performance Indicator: Alternative Revenue

Action Plan Strategies:

1.21. Advance the standing of KCTCS colleges as the first and most affordable higher education choice in Kentucky through targeted marketing and recruitment efforts.

Performance Metric:

• Net Price & Affordability

1.2.2 Reduce costs to maximize the use of tuition and taxpayer dollars by leveraging the buying power of the system and consolidating vendors and contracts.

Performance Metric:

• Qualitative Updates

1.2.3 Implement a plan to increase revenue generation through strategic and recurring investments by engaging legislators and business leaders and demonstrating through data the ways KCTCS can contribute to the accomplishment of shared goals.

Performance Metric:

• Alternative Revenue

Strategic Plan Objective 2.1: Expand workforce training to ensure skilled talent to meet employer and economic development needs.

Key Performance Indicator: Targeted Industry Sector Credentials

Action Plan Strategies:

2.1.1 Utilize labor market demand data to refine and streamline technical programs at KCTCS to better customize training for employers and meet high-quality job opportunities in real time.

Performance Metrics:

• TIS Enrollment
• Total Companies Served through Customized Training

 

2.1.2 Implement a comprehensive career development strategy to assist KCTCS students in identifying and aligning their academic and career goals through strategic exposure, experience, and access.

Performance Metrics:

• CCSSE Items on Career Development

 

Strategic Plan Objective 2.2: Strengthen industry and transfer partnerships to enhance programs and improve speed to work to ensure a skilled talent pipeline to grow Kentucky’s economy.

Key Performance Indicator: Post-KCTCS Outcomes

Action Plan Strategies:

2.2.1 Increase workforce and talent development initiatives by strengthening partnerships with business, industry, and key stakeholders, including programs such as Education First Employers and KCTCS-TRAINS.

Performance Metrics:

• Number of KCTCS-TRAINS Projects
• New vs. Returning KCTCS-TRAINS Companies
• KCTCS-TRAINS Enrollment
• Number of Education First Employers
• Number of Total Employer Partnerships
• Qualitative Updates

 

2.2.2 Align curriculum through the implementation of an industry-driven technical program review and alignment process and develop a transfer program/pathway review and alignment process that engages state transfer partners.

Performance Metrics:

• Number of Reviews/Alignments Completed
• Number of Businesses Engaged

Strategic Plan Objective 3.1: Grow enrollment at KCTCS institutions to meet the needs of the Commonwealth by expanding the number and diversity of learners achieving their career and lifelong learning goals.

Key Performance Indicator: Academic Year Enrollment

Action Plan Strategies:

3.1.1 Increase the matriculation rates of dual credit students to KCTCS through enhanced engagement with secondary partners and stakeholders.

Performance Metric:

• Dual Credit Matriculation to Credential-Seeking (within 1 and 3 Years of High School Graduation)

3.1.2Identify and scale effective enrollment management practices to grow enrollment through enhanced collaboration and the sharing of best practices.

Performance Metric:

• Credential-Seeking Applicant to Enrollment Yield Rate

3.1.3 Increase enrollment by expanding accelerated and flexible delivery models such as competency-based education, credit for prior learning, and targeted educational programs (correctional populations, incumbent workers, apprenticeships, etc.).

Performance Metric:

• Total Fall Enrollment
• Adult (Aged 25+) Fall Enrollment
• Low-Income Fall Enrollment

 

Strategic Plan Objective 3.2: Leverage proven practices to increase learner success through the completion of credential pathways and (credit and non-credit) industry training, including:

• transfer to four-year institutions (bachelors to employment)
• employment entry, re-entry, or upskilling

Key Performance Indicator: Two-Year Persistence Rate

Action Plan Strategies:

3.2.1 Leverage enhanced data collection mechanisms to more quickly identify and support students facing nonacademic barriers that may impede their ability to earn a credential and reach their educational goals.

Performance Metrics:

• In-Semester Retention of Students with Nonacademic Barriers
• Fall-to-Spring Retention of Students with Nonacademic Barriers

3.2.2Increase transfer rates of KCTCS graduates to four-year institutions by advancing transfer tracking and planning practices across the student journey from application to credential completion.

Performance Metric:

• Transfer Rates of AA/AS Graduates (within 1 and 3 Years of Graduation)

 

3.2.3 Increase student persistence and completion rates through the implementation of effective and technology-supported practices in holistic career and academic advising and student support services.

Performance Metric:

• Fall-to-Spring Retention Rates