Strategic Plan Framework: 2023-2025
MISSION
Northern New Mexico College is an inclusive, student-centered teaching and learning community, dedicated to excellence, empowering students, and transforming lives.
CORE VALUES
- Student-Centered: We honor every student as a unique individual and prioritize student needs in all decision making.
- Mutual Respect: We respect the differences of all peoples; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are our strengths.
- Integrity: We value honesty, trust, and transparency.
- Excellence: We commit to continuous improvement and strive to excel in all that we do.
- Servant Leadership: We prioritize the growth, well-being, and empowerment of students, faculty, and staff, and are good stewards of resources entrusted to our care.
VISION
As a Hispanic- and Indigenous-serving institution, sustained by place, culture, and innovation — Northern is a beacon of higher education for all students, igniting minds to create vibrant futures.
STRATEGIC PILLARS
- Transformational Student Experience: We journey together with our students through a positive proactive, personalized experience and become partners in their dreams.
- Academic Excellence: We teach with spirit and heart to provide a culturally responsive, 21st-century learning environment that sparks critical thinking and maximizes intellectual achievement.
- Organizational Excellence: We act with shared purpose and responsibility – focused on innovation and continuous improvement – committed to student success and empathetic, engaged leadership and expertise.
- Strategic Partnerships: We build partnerships that enhance student and institutional success and community well-being.
Strategic Plan 2028: Soaring to New Heights
Strategic Goal #1
Design and deliver exceptional services and support to ensure student success.
Objectives:
• Identify and act upon specific barriers to and opportunities for student access and success.
• Create a targeted communication system for students that fosters success throughout their journey from application through graduation.
Strategic Goal #2
Foster a teaching and learning environment that promotes a culture of belonging and responds to the needs of all students
Objectives:
• Develop and implement processes that foster an inclusive and supportive educational environment, promoting student growth academically, socially, and emotionally.
• Ensure the same quality of education for all students regardless
of modality.
• Improve and sustain co-curricular assessment development.
Strategic Goal #3
Provide structured pathways that prepare students for advanced educational opportunities, meaningful careers, and service to community.
Objectives:
• Develop more articulation agreements with community and other four-year colleges.
• Expand local and state workforce development partnerships.
• Increase internship and community service learning opportunities.
Strategic Goal #4
Invest in our people, and integrated enterprise-level operations, systems and technology.
Objectives:
• Foster a positive, supportive campus culture, encouraging open communication, teamwork, recognition, professional growth, and work-life balance.
• Build upon and strengthen a culture of shared governance and shared responsibility.
• Modernize, integrate, and optimize data and technology systems.
• Maintain exceptional financial and resource stewardship.
Strategic Goal #5
Strengthen Northern’s visibility, brand, value and impact.
Objectives:
• Strategically increase sustainable enrollment.
• Develop a comprehensive communication and marketing strategy through shared knowledge and responsibility.
• Advance understanding, engagement, and collaboration among our communities and stakeholders.