Strategic Plan 2009-2012

Strategic Direction #1

ACCC Will Advocate for Members

Promote the excellence of members as the prime providers of advanced skills and applied research for social and economic development.

Goals

Optimize relationships with the federal government.

Develop an advocacy plan in consultation with members and their regional associations to influence policy and seek resources.

Mobilize members around shared objectives.

Foster national and international partnerships to benefit members.

Strategic Direction #2

ACCC Will Engage and Support Members

Be a catalyst for innovation and collaboration to enhance the success of members and their students.

Recognize and serve the diversity of member institutions (metropolitan, rural, anglophone, francophone, aboriginal, polytechnic, institute, college, cégep, university college and baccalaureate) by organizing forums to define common interests and strategies.

Convene members around exemplary practices.

Goals

Showcase and share members' innovative capacities and achievements.

Respond to the diversity of members by recognizing and supporting their unique realities.

Facilitate accessible pathways for students to pursue studies domestically and internationally, and promote enhanced credential recognition.

Expand opportunities for members to connect faculty, staff and students with the national and international communities.

Strengthen member capacity through national and international partnerships.

Strategic Direction #3

ACCC Will Pursue Organizational Excellence and Be an Employer of Choice

Inspire staff, demonstrate fiscal sustainability and exercise effective governance.

Goals

Adopt leading edge human resource development practices.

Function with excellence in both official languages.

Enhance workplace wellness, health and safety. Achieve and maintain financial sustainability.

Be a model of excellence in policy governance.

Establish an accountability framework.