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Barstow Community College is an open-access learning environment that promotes critical thinking, communication, personal and professional responsibility, and global awareness by offering quality courses, programs, and support services.
...from the BCC Mission Statement

Strategic Priorities
1. Foster an innovative learning environment that respects diversity.
STRATEGIES:
  1. Offer programs and services for emerging student populations that are appropriate to and in support of individual students' needs.
  2. Advance a culture of inclusion that respects and appreciates the human condition.
2. Provide students a successful college learning experience.

STRATEGIES:
  • Plan and implement instructional programs based upon student learning needs and career paths.
  • Augment current and emerging technologies to foster student learning in on-campus and alternative learning modalities.
3. Promote and support student engagement.

STRATEGIES:
  1. Facilitate student growth and development by assisting students to set, monitor and evaluate educational goals.
  2. Expand and sustain an efficient, attractive and welcoming campus environment that supports teaching and learning.
4. Cultivate and enhance local partnerships.

STRATEGIES:
  1. Market and enhance the college image in high desert region and on the world wide web.
  2. Promote positive community and economic growth through greater outreach to local schools, business and industry, governments, service organizations and military.
5. Attract, retain, and develop excellent employees.

STRATEGIES:
 
  1. Implement practices to attract a diverse pool of highly qualified applicants for employment opportunities.
  2. Provide employees with a wide range of training and development opportunities to foster their professional growth.
6. Strengthen college planning and informed decision-making.

STRATEGIES:
 
  1. Maximize physical, human, fiscal and technological resources using program review and outcomes assessment results.
  2. Expand interactions and collaborations among faculty and staff using data and evidence.