Mission


The primary mission of the Coast Community College District (CCCD) is to provide quality lower-division and occupational education to ensure that students from all ages and from all socio-economic backgrounds have the opportunity to achieve their postsecondary educational goals. Inherent in this mission is the provision of transitional instruction and those support services that promote student success. In addition, the District will offer non-credit courses and other community service programs that will meet cultural, recreational, professional in-service, and personal development needs.

Goals
Goal 1: Provide the highest quality lower-division transfer education.
Goal 2: Provide the highest quality occupational education training and retraining that meets community and student needs.
Goal 3: Provide the highest quality transitional and life-long education programs that meet community needs.
Goal 4: Provide a self-supporting community services program that meets cultural, recreational, professional in-service, and personal development needs of the community.
Goal 5: Support the economic growth and development of the communities served by the Coast District by making the resources of the district and its colleges available to local businesses, industry, and government.
Goal 6: Provide learning resources and student support services needed to promote student success and to measure that success.
Goal 7: Establish articulation plans among the three campuses, the local high schools, and the colleges and universities.
Goal 8: Develop, implement, and maintain programs that address international and intercultural education.
Goal 9: Maintain an energetic, involved, and informed faculty, classified staff, and administration through staff development, training, and other programs and initiatives.
Goal 10: Increase the diversity of faculty, staff, and administrative personnel so that the district's employees reflect the diversity of California's population.
Goal 11: Maintain and update one-year and five-year improvement plans on an annual cycle, and ten-year and twenty-year master improvement plans on a five-year cycle. The plans will include these elements: instruction, support services, human resources, facilities, and other capital expenditures.