Team 1: Student Experience
Objective: Deliver an exceptional student experience.

Current 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 (starting 2023)

Contact/Co-champions: Miranda Evjen, Lidia Martinez

Team 2: Lead in Access, Retention, Graduation
Objective: Lead in access, retention, and graduation among all student populations.

Current Strategies:

• Increase enrollment
• Improve student persistence
• Promote student belonging and success
• Increase student transfers from CNM

Contact/Co-champions: Ari Rosner-Salazar, Chris Cavazos

Team 3: Innovative Approaches
Objective: Use innovative approaches and develop agile, continuous learners.

Current 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

Contact/Co-champions: Jennifer McDonald, Fang Chen

Additional efforts across the college:

• Improve student learning by completing Assessment Academy, contact Kristen Ferris or Linda Martin
• Focus on student success in transfer and workforce placement, contact Roberto Vasquez or Ann Lyn Hall
• Refresh programming to clarify pathways between non-credit and credit learning and improve student performance, contact Roberto Vasquez or Gail Davis

Team 1: Leaders and Workforce 
Objective: Develop leaders and meet the education and workforce needs of New Mexico

Current 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

Contact/Co-champions: Erin Johnson-Kruft, Krystle Montoya

Team 2: Public and Private Partnerships 
Objective: Build public and private-sector partnerships that foster economic development opportunities.

Current 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

Contact/Co-champions: Carson Bennett, Selena Hardy

Team 1: Service Excellence/Operational Efficiency
Objective: Deliver service excellence and operational efficiency across the College.

Current 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 Higher Learning Commission reaffirmation of accreditation
• Apply project management principles and tools 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 college-wide projects, including ERP implementation.

Contact/Co-champions: LaMonica Whittaker, Nicholas Aragon

Team 2: Employee Experience 
Objective: Provide a welcoming, safe, and equitable employee experience.

Current Strategies:

• Dedicate an Equity and Inclusion Office and college-wide 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

Contact/Co-champions: Sonya Lara, Melanie Viramontes