The mission of the Foundation is to aid, strengthen, and further in every proper and useful way the work and services of Blue Ridge Community College and to provide broader educational opportunities to its students, staff, faculty, and to the residents of Henderson and Transylvania Counties.
In fulfilling its mission, the Foundation provides financial assistance to students through scholarships, a work-study program, and emergency loans and grants; purchases state-of-the-art equipment for use in classrooms; sponsors faculty development through special projects; enables the College to achieve its institutional effectiveness goals; provides start-up costs for new programs; and solicits monies for other projects on campus.
Private support through the Foundation enables Blue Ridge Community College to keep pace with the educational changes occurring in its service area and in the lives of its students, faculty and staff, and the citizens it serves.
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The Public Relations Team supports the mission of Blue Ridge Community College by collaborating with other College divisions as well as our external partners to plan and implement a comprehensive communications program for the College.
We are committed to:
- Increasing public awareness and enhancing the College's image
- Implementing a proactive marketing program to attract students
- Promoting BRCC's services, programs, and accessibility
- Producing attractive, timely, accurate publications, public relations collateral, and other printed materials that are responsive to faculty, staff, and student needs.
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The Office of Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness is a support function of the College made up of three specific areas:
Planning activities include environmental scanning, conducting focus groups, internal program analysis, strategic plan development, and establishing college goals and outcomes. In addition, the Office assists with grant-writing, report preparation, and special projects.
Institutional research supports planning, policy formation, and decision making. A major focus is the extraction and analysis of student information data that leads to informed decision making. Office research also includes providing critical data to the North Carolina Community College System and to other public and private agencies.
Institutional effectiveness, often referred to as the "IE" function, is the ongoing processes of planning, goal-setting, outcome development, and assessment of both the College as a whole and of each department and program area. The underlying purpose of IE is to continually evaluate every functional area of the institution and use the results to make improvements in educational quality and service to the community.
Taking terms from industry and broadly defined, the Office is a cross between research & development and quality control.
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