Strategic Direction Planning
CNM Needs Your Input on Our Strategic Plan
Central New Mexico Community College is updating the Strategic Plan and Facilities Master Plan, and part of this update requires us to reevaluate our vision, mission, values, and goals for the future.
A new Strategic Plan will be adopted in 2024 and guide all of the college’s decisions through 2026.
- District 1: Charles Ofelt
- District 2: James Chavez
- District 3: Thomas Swisstack
- District 4: Annette Chavez y De La Cruz
- District 5: Nancy Baca
- District 6: Virginia Trujillo
- District 7: Robert Schoenfelder
Learn more about CNM's Governing Board members.
2020-2024 Strategic Planning Initiatives
Strategic Objective Teams
Learn more about the teams who oversee student success, community success, and organizational excellence and innovation for the 2020-2024 Strategic Plan. Each team establishes objectives and employs a variety of strategies to meet these objectives.
Student Success
Team 1: Student Experience | Objective: Deliver an exceptional student experience.
Strategies:
- Improve student journey at each stage of enrollment and acceptance process
- Increase student engagement
- Streamline student admissions and application process
- Improve student communications
- Reform processes and implement CHESS' Student Information System
Team 2: Lead in Access, Retention, Graduation | Objective: Lead in access, retention, and graduation among all student populations.
Strategies:
- Increase enrollment
- Improve student persistence
- Promote student belonging and success
- Increase student transfers from CNM
Team 3: Innovative Approaches | Objective: Use innovative approaches and develop agile, continuous learners.
Strategies:
- Implement the Block Plan: An alternative general education cohort model with one-course-at-a-time block schedule to improve student persistence and transfer
- Develop data-informed tools for faculty to guide classroom instruction and interventions
- Improve student learning by completing Assessment Academy
- Focus on student success in transfer and workforce placement
- Refresh programming to clarify pathways between non-credit and credit learning and improve student performance
Community Success
Team 1: Leaders and Workforce | Objective: Develop leaders and meet the education and workforce needs of New Mexico
Strategies:
- Meet employer workforce needs through employer engagement plan
- Provide workplace learning opportunities for CNM credit and non-credit students to meet workforce needs
- Develop leaders through workplace skills development
Team 2: Public and Private Partnerships | Objective: Build public and private-sector partnerships that foster economic development opportunities.
Strategies:
- Support current employers and recruit new employers to central New Mexico
- Pursue strategic specific partnerships that better utilize and grow the College's and Ingenuity's assets
- Establish strong communication tools and pathways to maximize connectivity to the most active industry partners
Organizational Excellence and Innovation
Team 1: Service Excellence/Operational Efficiency | Objective: Deliver service excellence and operational efficiency across the College.
Strategies:
- Improve and streamline business processes and implement continuous quality improvement initiatives
- Implement CHESS Enterprise Resources Planning System (2021-2023)
- Implement Continuous Quality Improvements strategies related to HLC reaffirmation of accreditation
- Apply project management principles to master plan and cross-divisional projects to align resources and ensure projects are on-time, on budget, and remain within scope
- Build out EPMO Office
- Develop tools (templates, reports, progress dashboards) based on best practices for portfolio management and project management
- Improve internal communications
- Ensure communications are accessible by all employees, delivered in a timely manner, and reflect change management principles involving collegewide projects, including ERP implementation.
Team 2: Employee Experience | Objective: Provide a welcoming, safe, and equitable employee experience.
Strategies:
- Dedicate an Equity and Inclusion Office and collegewide structure that promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)
- Develop DEI enrichment opportunities such as antiracism workshop and proactive public safety activities
- Develop tools to assess CNM's improvement and effectiveness at implementing equitable and inclusive practices such as an equity scorecard
- Implement strategies to attract and retain employees who are student-focused and committed to CNM's vision, mission, and values
Strategic Planning Resources
The 2020-2024 Strategic Plan and Key Performance Indicators have been approved by the planning committee as of August 19, 2019 and went before the Board on September 10, 2019.
These documents were created in the development of the 2020-2024 Strategic Direction.