CHANGING THE PERSPECTIVE UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL: STUDENTS. SUPPORTERS. SUCCESS. OLDS COLLEGE COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTIONAL PLAN (CIP) 2013-2016 CONTENTS Executive Summary ............................................................ 3 Accountability Statement .................................................... 4 Plan Development ............................................................... 4 Our Vision ........................................................................... 4 Institutional Context ............................................................ 5 Letter of Expectation ........................................................... 6 Institutional Key Priorities .................................................... 7 Environmental Scan ............................................................ 8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Institutional Analysis ........................................................... 9 Results-Based Bugeting/Organizational Excellence ............ 10 Olds College is currently celebrating our Centennial, marking The leadership team at Olds College have identified five key Institutional Outcomes: Accessibility .................................. 11 100 years of quality education and training. Over the past priorities to move the CIP forward. Offering cost effective Institutional Outcomes: Centre of Specialization ................ 12 century, Olds College has contributed to successful careers programs and more extensively marketing our highly unique Institutional Outcomes: Responsiveness ............................ 13 for many generations of learners. With pride, Olds College can and specialized programs will enable learners at Olds College link the values that underpinned the first course offerings of not only to succeed, but to exceed market requirements. Institutional Outcomes: Accountability ............................... 14 the Olds School of Agriculture and Home Economics in 1913 The success of our learners is highly dependent upon our Institutional Outcomes: Sustainability ................................ 15 to those reflected in courses offered today.T he innovation skilled and knowledgeable employees who are participants Value Added Partnerships .................................................. 16 and entrepreneurial vision of the past is the foundation for in a rigorous employee performance process that increases Entrepreneurship at Olds College ....................................... 18 the future of Campus Alberta. accountability, efficiency and effectiveness. Investing in updating some aging facilities and undesirable student International Department at Olds College ........................... 19 Olds College is a board-governed institution and operates housing strategically positions the College in the marketplace Strategic Enrolment Management ..................................... 20 under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act. The to support enrollment growth, and to improve student Olds College Centre for Innovation ................................... 22 College will enter its second century with the establishment success and retention. As well, our significant investment in Connect Your Passion ....................................................... 24 of a number of new learning initiatives which expand its comprehensive information technology not only demonstrates Alberta Enterprise & Advanced Education Relationship ...... 25 influence across the province. In 2013, Olds College opened a deliberative approach to financial sustainability, but will a new campus in Calgary as part of Campus Alberta South Year In Review ................................................................... 26 solidify the College as a bold and innovative collaborator with Partnership (CASp), and will continue to reach out to learners Budget and Planning Principles ......................................... 28 the new digital learner. An Edmonton Journal article quotes across Central Alberta through the efforts of Campus Alberta Thomas Lukaszuk, Deputy Premier Minister of Enterprise and Olds College Revenues and Expenses ............................... 29 Central (CAC) and the Community Learning Campus (CLC). Advanced Education, saying “Post-secondary institutions, not Resource Implications ...................................................... 32 This expanded reach allows Olds College to offer certificates, all but many of them, will have to view themselves through a Centennial Impacts ........................................................... 34 diplomas, and applied degrees in business, agriculture, different mirror. They will have to see themselves as integral horticulture, animal sciences, fashion, land and environment, parts and perhaps enablers of our economy.” and trades to an increasing number of learners. The College also offers other programs in a variety of innovative formats, Olds College is known for that entrepreneurial edge in including dual credit for high school students within our business, and a remarkable ability to form partnerships. Here, regional stewardship and beyond, and a “gamified” capstone entrepreneurism is a normative way of thinking, but when ACRONYMS course on entrepreneurship for all graduates. we refer to entrepreneurship, we mean it in the broadest sense: the ability to see an opportunity and pull together the Moving toward the 2013/14 funding year, Olds College resources and people need to make it happen. Olds College EAE ................................ Enterprise and Advanced Education will focus on 4 key items as part of its Comprehensive isn’t a passive contributor to the economy: our vision is to COMPREHENSIVE CIP ..................................... Comprehensive Institutional Plan Institutional Plan, including drive economic activity locally, nationally, and internationally OCCI ................................ Olds College Centre for Innovation • sustainability, with our ventures. (Applied Research division of the College) • reviewing and refining our current policies and practices lan 2013–2016 CAC ................................................. Campus Alberta Central OUTCOMES, STRATEGIES AND PERFORMANCE P to ensure we are fulfilling the expectations of theA uditor I NSTITUTIONAL (Partnership with Red Deer College) General, MEASURES CLC .......................................... Community Learning Campus • allocation of resources to ensure Albertans are engaged in (Partnership with Chinook’s Edge School Division) Encompassed in this Comprehensive Institutional Plan (CIP) lifelong learning, are skilled and productive, demonstrate NSTITUTIONAL are the five Board directed institutional outcomes which I CASp ................................. Campus Alberta South Partnership P excellence in research innovation and commercialization, are Accessibility, Centre of Specialization, Responsiveness, lan 2013–2016 (Partnership with four Southern Alberta Post-Secondary Institutions) and to contribute to a Provincial economy that is CIRE .................. Canadian Institute for Rural Entrepreneurship Accountability, and Sustainability. These outcomes are competitive and sustainable, the basis for the development of strategies, actions, and GoA ..................................................... Government of Alberta • continuing to identify strategies for engaging and performance measures that will guide the institution over the CCRHPS .... Canadian Centre for Rural High Performance Sport COMPREHENSIVE consulting with students in the development of strategic next 3 years. These strategies are compared with the goals 3 2 CESD ................................... Chinook’s Edge School Division plans. of Alberta Enterprise and Advanced Education (EAE) and the ERP ............................... Enterprise Resource Planning System letter of expectation provided by EAE in March of 2013. ACCOUNTABILITY INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT STATEMENT MANDATE STATEMENT The College actively pursues involvement in applied research that advances innovation-based rural economic development ACCOUNTABILITY STATEMENT Olds College is a board-governed public College operating in Alberta. The applied research activity undertaken by under authority of the Post-secondary Learning Act. the faculty and research staff at the College supports and This Comprehensive Institutional Plan was prepared under informs the curriculum through exposing learners to the most the direction of the Board of Governors of Olds College and The College awards certificates, diplomas, applied degrees, innovative and up-to-date information available in a variety in accordance with legislation and associated Ministerial and baccalaureate degrees designed to meet the needs of disciplines and is the base for the further development of guidelines. In addition it takes in to consideration all policy of both learners and the communities served by the Olds College linkages with industry locally, nationally and internationally. decisions and material, economic, or fiscal implications of College. Olds College programs offer learning opportunities in agriculture, horticulture, land and water resource which the Board is aware. management, animal science, business, fashion, technology, Barry Mehr and apprenticeship training. A number of additional programs VALUES Chair, Olds College Board of Governors and services are offered to serve the needs of the region, At Olds College we value: including the offering of Grant MacEwan University’s first year BSc program, adult basic education, career training, and 1. Empowerment of learners