The Board will provide mission-directed leadership and governance by aligning with
the 2025-2032 Strategic Areas of: Belonging, Advancing Student Success, Thriving Communities, and Institutional
Sustainability; by reviewing reports on the institutional effectiveness scorecard
to ensure measures of mission fulfillment meet a minimum of 70 percent, with a target
goal of 90 percent; and by focusing efforts to advance Black and Brown student excellence
and equitable access, opportunity, and success for students and other groups experiencing
intersecting marginalizations.
The Board acknowledges the critical role quality faculty play in institutional excellence
and student learning and success and will tenure only candidates who demonstrate quality
performance in all evaluation areas to advance Black and Brown student excellence,
apply inclusive practices, and advance inclusive, equitable, and antiracist action.
The Board will review board policy to ensure policy supports equity, diversity, and
inclusion and the institution’s goal of becoming an antiracist institution.
The Board will provide direction for budget policy and priorities that advances the
college’s equity-centered mission and antiracist commitments, supports strategic resource
allocations and clean fiscal audits, ensures institutional sustainability and enhancement
of the college’s facilities, and invests in transformational innovations and capacity-building
to achieve those ends.
The Board will provide budget oversight with thoughtful spending of reserves, reflecting
careful consideration of access, opportunities, and core programmatic and essential
support areas.
The Board recognizes the important role of professional development for all employees
and will support efforts to implement inclusive practices that promote equity, engagement,
and belonging to meet mission and antiracist commitments.
The Board will actively engage in advocacy to promote collaborations and partnerships
with business, industry, educational institutions, and government, in order to strengthen
economic and workforce development and social mobility in our communities. The Board
will support efforts of the Pierce College Foundation, and will actively lobby legislators
and congressional leaders for state and federal funding for operating and capital
budgets, financial aid, and grant funding.
The Board will conduct a self-evaluation to review performance and to identify professional
development opportunities. Specifically, they will participate in culturally relevant
and sustaining engagement to achieve racial and social equity, and participate in
local, regional, and national conferences and meetings to gain insight into the innovative
programs and strategic governing options that promote the mission of Pierce College
and the Washington State Community and Technical College System.
The Board will develop a trustee succession plan that identifies and recommends individuals
for gubernatorial appointment and will implement an equity-centered new trustee orientation
that focuses on Pierce College’s strategic plan, structures, programs, processes,
policy governance, and Washington State Community and Technical College System.