Goal 2

Connections that Improve Student Transitions

Strengthen relationships and connections with key community partners, such as K12, UW, other four-year institutions, and business and industry to improve student transitions between educational entities and into the workforce.

Strategies

Expand early-college engagement of high school students to encourage greater college- continuation, ease transitions to college, and ensure students are prepared to succeed at LCCC.

Continue the progress made towards the establishment of a Southeastern Wyoming Board of Cooperative Higher Education Services (BOCHES).
Create curriculum articulation groups formed of LCCC Faculty and high school teachers to ensure and improve curricular alignment.
Strengthen and expand dual and concurrent enrollment activities by implementing the National Alliance of Concurrent Enrollment Partnerships (NACEP) standards.
Provide early interventions for high school students who test less than college ready in key areas such as writing and mathematics.

Strengthen academic alignment of LCCC Associate’s of Arts and Science’s degree programs to promote student completion and successful transfer to UW and other four-year colleges and universities.

Establish program articulation agreements with four-year institutions that map the entire degree program sequence that illustrates a coherent pathway to a bachelor’s degree and guarantees seamless transfer if students adhere to the pathway.
Strengthen and expand reverse transfer systems in partnership with UW and other four-year institutions that allow LCCC students who transfer without completing a degree the opportunity to earn the credential once requirements are met as a result of coursework taken at the university.
Articulate the new LCCC General Education Core with UW so that students may transfer their first-year general education coursework in a block and satisfy the UW general education requirement.

Expand relationships with business and industry partners to ensure programs are aligned with employer needs.

Building from existing documents and work pertaining to career pathways advisory committees, establish a program advisory committee handbook that will help establish new and/or strengthen existing program advisory committees.
Evaluate current advisory panel membership and encourage broader participation to establish new partnerships and relationships.

Develop broader understanding of our communities’ needs and leverage existing programs, services and activities to increase the engagement of LCCC with the community, and the community with LCCC.

Conduct a comprehensive environmental scanning/ needs assessment in Albany County to ascertain current and future community needs that will guide programming offered through the Albany County Campus of LCCC.
Expand opportunities for students involved with co-curricular and extracurricular activities (e.g., athletics, student clubs, service learning, etc.) to engage more richly with the community in ways that help develop the community and build relationships.
Encourage, track and celebrate faculty and staff involvement in community initiatives, through service on community boards, or other opportunities for civic engagement.