NMC Next:

Timeline

Status Update

October 2025: Much of September and October have been focused on refining the emerging strategies and strategic drivers:

DRAFT STRATEGIES:
Future-Focused Education: Equip learners for a rapidly changing world through purposeful pathways, durable skills, and technology literacy.
Enrollment and Student Success: Advance enrollment and student success by removing barriers and ensuring every learner experiences the coordinated support needed to persist and achieve their goals.
Vibrant Campus and Colleagues: Make NMC a vibrant campus and workplace by transforming our facilities and investing in faculty and staff as an employer of choice, building the capacity that sustains NMC’s future.

DRAFT STRATEGIC DRIVERS:
Living Our Brand: Embed our brand ethos— innovation, collaboration, and impact—into every aspect of our institution, from student experiences to strategic partnerships.
Community Partnerships: Proactively embed and leverage strategic community partnerships across all college initiatives to advance community engagement, foster economic and workforce development, and create innovative opportunities for lifelong learning.
Stewardship & Sustainability: Secure NMC's long-term vitality and growth by strategically leveraging smart resource investments, innovative funding models, optimized operations, and forward-thinking partnerships.
Human-Centered Excellence: Foster an inclusive, supportive, and empowering environment that prioritizes the holistic well-being, success, and continuous development of every student and employee.

The objectives are one of the most critical elements of our strategic plan. They set in motion the actions, resourcing, and priorities for the college. Objectives are being developed for each strategy by applying our values in action. These strategic drivers create the framework for objectives that reach across departments and exhibit the characteristics that our stakeholders felt were a MUST in the next plan. To do this, we will use the “strategic drivers” to develop the objectives during October and November 2025.

Our Purpose

• Refocus our energies and resources for the next three calendar years
• Leverage our past successes to meet the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead

The Outcome

• Conduct scenario planning based on internal and/or external environmental conditions
• Outline strategic directions that include a three-year timeframe, 2022–2025
• Set strategic goals for the institution
• Develop strategies to meet established goals
• Identify key performance indicators and targets

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To ask questions, or to provide ideas and feedback, please email strategic-planning@nmc.edu.