Our Mission
North Shore Community College is a diverse, caring, inclusive community that inspires our students to become engaged citizens and to achieve their personal, academic, and career goals through accessible, affordable, rigorous educational opportunities that are aligned with our region's workforce needs and will prepare them for life in a changing world.
Our Values
The Faculty and Staff at North Shore Community College exemplify the highest academic and institutional integrity through our commitment to:
Access and Opportunity. We provide access to quality higher education by offering clear and flexible pathways to academic success for the diverse populations we serve.
Respect and Inclusion. We seek to create a respectful, welcoming, and appreciative learning environment in which each person and every group belongs, is accepted, has value, and actively contributes.
Educational Excellence and Innovation. We embrace the highest standards in developing dynamic learning environments through excellent faculty and staff, academic freedom, innovative teaching methods, quality facilities, and engaging technologies.
Student Learning and Success. We are devoted to maximizing our students ability to learn and achieve academic, personal, and professional success through appropriate support and services.
Purposeful Life and Global Citizenship. We are dedicated to empowering students to become lifelong learners and engaged citizens, to understanding the global landscape, and to equipping them for transformative careers.
Social Responsibility and Justice. We are committed to developing productive, collaborative relationships within the college and among our various constituencies so that we may serve to improve the quality of lives in the North Shore communities.
Sustainability and Resourcefulness. We uphold our heritage for tenacity, sustainability, responsible stewardship and equitable distribution of our resources.
Our Vision: 2022 – 2027
An NSCC education leads to consistently excellent and equitable life outcomes for students that in turn improve community outcomes.
North Shore Community College has re-centered its mission around the realities of the 2020s.
The focus on life outcomes re-engages with the goals students and their families bring to the pursuit of higher education and with the community’s expectations of the college. Committing to consistently excellent outcomes recognizes both that our success rates are not high enough and that the regional economy is short of the well-educated professionals employers need NSCC to provide.
Pledging equity in those outcomes assumes responsibility for the equity gaps the college’s students experience here and the resulting inequities that follow them through life, affecting the communities the college serves.
Three Strategic Priorities
Align the college with regional needs to spur academic innovation and holistic student support.
Promote Social Justice at NSCC and in the Community by delivering Equitable Student Outcomes.
Build a transformative, future-focused environment for and with the NSCC community.
STAFF AND FACULTY INPUT
Collaboration with our NSCC Community
NSCC leadership worked with faculty and staff from across the college, as well as our own students, on multiple inter-connected planning committees to develop the Vision for Transforming the Future.
Thank you to the hundreds of NSCC employees, students, and community members who contributed to this plan and this vision for our future.
William Heineman, Ed.D.
PRESIDENT
Achieving the Vision
Global metrics will track the college’s progress toward this vision. These metrics include lead indicators, or formative metrics designed to track early progress towards planning goals, and lag indicators, which measure longer term, or summative, outcomes.
4-year degree completion after transfer
Disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender/age (lag)
First-Year Retention of all new students
Disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, age (lead)
Degree and Certificate Completion
Disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, age (lead)
High School Graduate (1 & 5 years post-college completion)
Student loan debt at graduation, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, age (lag)
Transfer rate, grad/non-grad
Disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, age (lead)
Employment earnings
Disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, age (lag)
Non-Traditional (pre/post college completion)
Student loan debt at graduation, disaggregated by race, ethnicity, gender, age (lag)
President Heineman’s newly reimagined executive cabinet supports implementing the Vision.