Post-Secondary Strategies

Post-Secondary Strategies: (Language from 2009 Strategic Plan)

Outcome: To provide our adult population with access to an affordable, flexible, and highly effective post-secondary system so that our workers are prepared to meet the needs of the 21st-century workplace and a rapidly changing economy.

Strategies:

• Set goals for post-secondary educational attainment for all segments of the regional population.  Pay attention to closing equity gaps (gender, income, and race).
• Collaborate with Dabney S. Lancaster Community College to create world-class programs that prepare local residents for living wage work and entrepreneurial careers.
• Implement a “Relationship management” program with local employers to develop training and service that raise worker productivity.
• Incubate new approaches to credentialing and career pathways that create local opportunities for motivated residents to remain in the region.

Indicators: Evidence of achieving this outcome would be as follows:

• Higher enrollments at our post-secondary institution;
• Increased number of graduates successfully entering the workforce;
• Increased number of highly skilled workforce (certification, degreed, and licensures programs); and,
• Improved economic climate of our area.

Current Investments and Strategic Partners:

DSLCC Educational Foundation (over three years)

• DSLCC VISION 2020 Increasing Educational Attainment – $1,400,000

Dabney S. Lancaster Community College

• Increasing Educational Attainment in the Alleghany Highlands – $321,930
• Expansion of EMS Training Program – $261,395

Alleghany Highlands Regional Library

• Computer Learning Lab – $56,447

Radford University Foundation (over three years)

• LewisGale Alleghany Hospital / Radford University Clinical Stipends – $105,000