2009 Performance Accountability Report Vol. 2 - Maryland Higher ...

Mission
Prince George’s Community College
Institutional Performance Accountability Report
Mission Statement
Prince George’s Community College offers opportunities for individuals to realize their potential
in a challenging, learning-centered environment. The college provides cost effective, highquality
programs and services that respond to student and community needs.
Vision
Prince George’s Community College will excel as a national leader, recognized for the quality of
its programs and students in an intellectually vibrant, technologically enhanced, learningcentered
environment that is responsive to community and workforce needs.
Institutional Assessment
Prince George's Community College began the reporting cycle by completing its 50 th anniversary
celebrations with the formal inauguration of Dr. Charlene M. Dukes as the college’s eighth and
first female president, and a joyous and highly successful grand celebration of the college’s halfcentury
of service at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center. The Gala was a soldout
event that drew over 700 college staff, faculty and community leaders, including Maryland
Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown and other local, state, and federal elected and government
officials. The year-long celebration entitled, “A Legacy of Excellence, A Lifetime of Learning,
generated over $350,000 for college scholarships and academic programs. On the more
substantive side, the college made much significant progress in fiscal year 2009:
Governance Reform
In pursuit of the Middle States Commission’s recommendations to improve the college’s
governance process, President Dukes announced at the start of the fiscal year that PGCC would
make a concerted effort to “work … towards a system of governance that recognizes the value of
employee input and feedback with regard to institutional decisions.” To that end, the President’s
Cabinet was renamed the Senior Team (area vice presidents and the executive assistant to the
president) and expanded to include key unit executives. Additionally, the President’s Leadership
Team (PLT) was created with a broadened membership to include the Senior Team and
representatives of the four key institutional constituency groups (faculty, staff, students, and
administrators) and given a mandate to more actively seek college constituency participation in
the college decision and policy recommending making processes. Through recommendations
from the College-Wide Forum, the senior leadership inaugurated two new campus discussion
mechanisms – “Dialogues with the Senior Team”, a series of regularly scheduled opportunities
for campus constituencies to talk over college issues with the Cabinet, and “Listening Zone”
meetings for one-on-one discussions between individual Senior Team members and the college
constituencies. Both of these vehicles proved useful in providing information and
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