End of Year Report - Richland College

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Enhanced Environmental Scanning Report (May 2010)
This year, OPRIE added maps depicting enrollment trends to it’s environmental scanning report. The
maps included in the report represent Enrollment by Texas County, 3-Year Change Trends in Enrollment
by Texas County, Enrollment by Zip Code, 3-Year Change Trends in Enrollment by Zip Code, Distance
Learning Enrollment by Texas Count and by Zip Code, and International Enrollment by Country. The
report also includes Anglo, African-American, Hispanic, and Asian Population Trends by Richland Service
Area Zip Code.
Institutional SWOT (April 2010)
OPRIE scaled up the electronic SWOT piloted last year with the direct reports of the Vice Presidents and
President. This year the whole college was invited to participate in the SWOT which brought a richer array
of perspectives to the analysis. Sixty-six employees provided input which yielded 860 comments. The
comments were coded into 58 themes, approximately 15 per category (14 strengths, 16 weaknesses, 15
opportunities, 13 threats).
Core Curriculum Map (April 2010)
In preparation for assessing student learning outcomes at the program level, OPRIE led efforts to map
the new core curriculum to the college’s Institutional/General Education student learning outcomes
Curriculum mapping provides a strategy to visually capture the structure of program curriculum, allowing
us to better see where and how we are teaching and assessing student learning outcomes. The Core
Curriculum map will help us develop coherent and meaningful strategies for assisting our students to
attain them and will also help streamline our assessment activities as we move toward reaffirmation.
Revised Performance Excellence Model (March 2010)
Based on feedback from participants following workshops on the Performance Excellence Model, OPRIE
revised the model, simplifying overly complex directional arrows and aligning the model with our
Approach, Deploy, Learn, Integrate cycles of improvement.
Sustainability Notations for KPIs/Measures (Summer 2009)
In order to better understand how well our KPIs and measures align with the triple bottom line of
sustainability, OPRIE proposed notations for Equity, Economy, and Environment to measures that
indicate our commitment to these goals. Each applicable measure is tagged with an E and superscript
letter(s) representing which of the triple bottom line goals the measure tracks.
QEP Timeline (Summer 2009)
In order to better communicate the goals of QEP over the last decade and to prepare employees for
planning of future QEP efforts, OPRIE prepared a visual representation of past and upcoming QEP
initiatives. This graphic will be used in presentations and other communications to employees, including
all faculty convocation Fall 2009.
Electronic SWOT (Summer 2009)
OPRIE staff implemented data collection for an institutional SWOT electronically this summer. The
electronic format allowed greater participation from VP direct reports whose summer schedules made
face-to-face meeting difficult.
Modifications to EOY Report (December 2008)
In last year’s end of year report, OPRIE included trend-line charts for each institutional measure related to
Closing the Gaps in order to more clearly depict college efforts on this initiative. The EOY also included
explanations of Core Competencies and data related to each.
Enhancements to Program Review (AY 08-09)
OPRIE conducted more frequent meetings with Student Services and Administrative Support Program
Review participants throughout this year, and also included Appreciative Inquiry and process mapping as
part of the Program Review process. Additionally, OPRIE provided scheduling and student demographic
data to those departments undergoing Academic Program Review.
Inspirational Quotations for the Strategic Planning Retreat & Monthly KPI Meetings (Summer 2008)
The OPRIE staff began compiling inspirational quotes for use during the 2008 Strategic Planning Retreat
and to begin each monthly KPI report. The staff benchmarked this best practice from Sharp Healthcare, a
2008 Baldrige Award recipient Sharp. The quotes help focus staff in a positive direction.