As we engage in setting our new strategic direction for the 2023 – 2026 years, we are pleased to share with you the following comprehensive report, which concludes our 2018 – 2023 5-year strategic plan, adopted by the ASCCC delegates through resolution 01.01 S18. It was an ambitious and comprehensive plan consisting of six goals, fourteen objectives, and forty-nine strategies. This well-mapped plan was critical at the time to communicate that the ASCCC was setting a very strategic path forward; many changes were coming to the California Community Colleges system, and academic senates had a crucial role to play. The ASCCC remains committed to promoting academic excellence, supporting faculty leadership, and advocating for the educational needs of all students.

To achieve our organization’s path forward, the ASCCC identified six strategic priorities which guided our work over the last five years. Our strategic priorities included:

1. Asserting the faculty voice and leadership in local, state, and national policy conversations;
2. Engaging and empowering diverse groups of faculty at all levels of state and local leadership;
3. Asserting ASCCC leadership in all faculty professional development for the California Community College system regarding academic and professional matters;
4. Enhancing engagement, communication, and partnerships with local senates and system partners, and other constituent groups;
5. Securing resources to sustain and support the mission and the work of the ASCCC; and
6. Sustaining, supporting, and expanding the ASCCC Course Identification Numbering System (C-ID).

Our strategic plan included specific strategies and tactics to achieve each of these priorities and the ASCCC worked collaboratively with stakeholder groups to ensure successful implementation. By focusing on these priorities, the ASCCC asserted the primacy of faculty voice in policy development and conversations, worked to close equity gaps, increased faculty diversification, enhanced access to professional development opportunities, and engaged with partner organizations to meet the needs of every student in the California Community College system. 

We are committed to ensuring that the ASCCC remains a strong advocate for California's community college system and its faculty. We believe that by working together, we can achieve our vision of an educational system that is grounded in the tenets of inclusion, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and accessibility (IDEAA) and truly accessible to all students.

I look forward to working with all of you as we implement our new strategic directions and continue to build a strong and vibrant academic community.

With gratitude and appreciation, 

Ginni May
ASCCC President