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Alamo Community College District Board of Trustees Sets High Goals at Retreat

For Immediate Release
November 13, 2006
Contact: Kay Hendricks, Coordinator of Communication
(210) 208-8006
khendric@accd.edu

At their retreat this past weekend, the Alamo Community College District (ACCD) Board of Trustees and Chancellor Dr. Bruce H. Leslie laid the groundwork for a strategy that will ultimately result in ACCD becoming the best community college district in the nation.

According to ACCD Board Chairman Roberto Zarate, rapid regional growth requires the development of a sixth college and necessitates expansion of the district’s strategic planning process to determine the appropriate district-wide culture that will strengthen the district’s focus on student success.

“The opportunity to be the best challenges us to maximize every student’s capacity to achieve his or her personal, professional and academic goals and every business and non-profit customer’s ability to benefit fully from ACCD’s services and assistance,” said Zarate. “Becoming the best also entails a clear commitment across the district to our strategic plan and the development of clear, shared values and standards that will provide the highest quality education regardless of which ACCD college a student attends,” he added.

To achieve the goal of becoming the best community college district in the nation, the board has charged Chancellor Leslie to engage the entire college district and the community in a process to define the necessary culture that will achieve ACCD’s vision of student success. He is also charged with eliminating any structural academic, student support, organizational or employee barriers through a “culture of evidence,” leading to a system of continuous assessment, experimentation, innovation, collaboration and improvement in an environment that will make ACCD a “best place” to learn and work. The board has further charged Chancellor Leslie with fulfilling the district’s commitment to the “Achieving the Dream” initiative across the district and pursuing the Baldrige Award as foundations for the district-wide strategic plan that will result in ACCD becoming the best community college in the nation.

The Alamo Community College District is one district comprised of four colleges—San Antonio College, St. Philip’s College, Palo Alto College and Northwest Vista College. A fifth college, Northeast Lakeview College, is in the the process of seeking accreditation.