Craven Community College (CCC) has a Mission Statement that is reviewed annually by the Institutional Effectiveness Committee, which is made up of administrators, faculty, and staff of the College and a Student Council representative. The mission statement is submitted to the College's Board of Trustees for approval. The following is the statement the Craven Community College Board of Trustees approved on February 21, 2006, which reflected minor changes from the 2005 mission statement:
Craven Community College, a public two-year college with an open-door admissions policy, provides programs to meet the diverse learning needs of our community through a variety of delivery systems, including distance education, by providing:
- Education, training, and retraining for the workforce; basic skills and literacy education; technical and college transfer programs
- Services to and partnerships with business and industry to promote economic development in a global environment
- Services to communities, organizations, and individuals to enrich the quality of life.
Approved by the CCC Board of Trustees February 21, 2006.
Approved by the Institutional Effectiveness Committee January 31, 2006.
Craven Community College's Mission Statement is appropriate in that it addresses learning opportunities for residents of the community, including the range of programs offered through the statutory purpose given for the North Carolina Community College System (NCCCS) in the General Statutes, Chapter 115D-1. While the College's primary service area is Craven County, CCC serves individuals from throughout eastern North Carolina and beyond, especially through its growing online course offerings. Therefore, the word community is appropriate for the College's constituency. In addition, the Mission Statement addresses the quality-of-life services Craven Community College provides to communities (through its partnerships with various agencies), organizations and individuals. Research is not a part of the community college system's mission, and service is limited to the College's role in economic development and adult enrichment.
The addition of the word learning in the 2006 mission statement review further solidifies the College's commitment to learning college concepts. This commitment was first formalized in February 2000, with the biennial priority "to improve and develop instructional delivery using the learner-centered approach with a long-term goal of becoming a learning community." This concept remains as a part of the Education Programs Strategic Goal for 2005-2007.
The mission has had minor changes made to it each year since its adoption following the Commission on the Future of the North Carolina Community College System report in 1989 (prior to that, the College had a statement of purpose.) The College developed an ad hoc committee (the Commission on the Future Response Team) to respond to issues raised by that blue ribbon commission. That committee set the stage for Craven's initial institutional effectiveness efforts. The College's Board of Trustees adopted the initial mission statement developed by Craven's first Institutional Effectiveness Committee in 1989. In 1994, the mission statement again underwent major overhaul in response to the N.C. Community College System's revised mission statement.
Since 1994, changes to the Mission Statement have reflected Craven's substantive change visit as part of the NCCCS for distance education; global education, in response to the systemwide effort to encourage the integration of a global perspective into all community college efforts; and the 2005 change of the word "occupational" to "technical" to reflect the nature of the skills which are being imparted to students.
The mission statement is printed on poster-size paper and displayed in approximately 35 locations on the New Bern and Havelock campuses, including in major instructional and administrative areas of the College and within offices of faculty and staff members who have requested it. In addition, the Mission Statement is published in the College Catalog (2006-2007 proof) and Student Handbook (2005 version), and displayed on the CCC Website.
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