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Board Goals

2026-2027 Board of Trustees Goals

The Board provides mission-directed leadership and governance aligned with Pierce College's 2025–2032 Strategic Areas — Belong, Advance, Thrive, and Sustain. The Board monitors institutional effectiveness through the scorecard, targeting a minimum of 70 percent and a goal of 90 percent on mission-fulfillment measures, with particular attention to advancing Black and Brown student excellence and equitable outcomes for students and communities experiencing intersecting marginalizations.

Strategic Goals

Belong

Goal: Foster a culture of equity, diversity, inclusion, and antiracism across the institution.

  • Review board policy to ensure it supports equity, diversity, inclusion, and the college's goal of becoming an antiracist institution.
  • Support professional development and inclusive practices that promote equity, engagement, and belonging for all employees.

Advance

Goal: Strengthen student success and educational excellence, with priority attention to Black and Brown student excellence.

  • Tenure only candidates who demonstrate quality performance across all evaluation areas, apply inclusive practices, and advance antiracist action.
  • Champion the college's role in expanding equitable access and opportunity, preparing students for civic participation, and aligning pathways with regional workforce and talent needs.

Thrive

Foundation Partnership & Resource Development

Goal: Strengthen partnership with the Pierce College Foundation to advance student success and institutional priorities.

  • Increase engagement with Foundation leadership, donor cultivation, community awareness, and resource-development opportunities.
  • Attend selected Foundation events and serve as ambassadors to prospective community partners and donors.
  • Receive periodic Foundation updates and help identify resource-development opportunities.
  • Lobby state and federal legislators for operating, capital, financial aid, and grant funding.
Community Engagement & Mission Advocacy

Goal: Strengthen external relationships that advance Pierce College's mission and support Black and Brown communities and those experiencing intersecting marginalizations.

  • Serve as ambassadors for the College and develop meaningful connections with business, industry, education, government, nonprofit, civic, and community partners throughout the district.
  • Each trustee will identify opportunities during the year to represent Pierce College in the community and cultivate strategic relationships.
  • Bring relevant community perspectives and partnership opportunities back to the Board and Chancellor.

Sustain

Goal: Ensure fiscal health, facilities capacity, and responsible innovation.

  • Direct budget policy and priorities that advance the college's equity commitments, support strategic resource allocation, and facilitate clean fiscal audits.
  • Provide oversight of reserves spending that reflects careful consideration of access, opportunity, and core programmatic and support needs.
  • Guide the district's engagement with artificial intelligence and emerging technologies in line with the values of equity, access, academic integrity, and human-centered learning.

Board Effectiveness Goals

Commit to Continuous Board Development

  • Conduct a Board self-evaluation to review performance and identify professional development opportunities.
  • Participate in culturally-sustaining engagement to advance racial and social equity.
  • Attend local, regional, and national conferences and meetings to gain insight into innovative governance practices that advance the mission of Pierce College.

Strengthen Trustee Succession and Onboarding

  • Develop a trustee succession plan that identifies and recommends individuals for gubernatorial appointment.
  • Implement an orientation for new trustees covering the college's strategic plan, structures, programs, policy governance, and the Washington State Community and Technical College System.