Strategic Plan: 2025-2030

With our mission centered around student success and providing high-quality education for students from all walks of life, a strategic plan is essential for San Jacinto College. Discover how San Jac’s values, priorities, and goals contribute to our strategic plan and help our students reach academic and career success.

At San Jacinto College, we believe that a student’s success is our success! Everything we do focuses on supporting our students and community. Discover how our mission, vision, and values enable students to accomplish their academic goals.

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Our Mission

We change lives through education, community engagement, and partnerships.

Our Vision

Together with our community members and business and industry partners, San Jacinto College sets the standard for educational excellence, economic growth, and social mobility characterized by innovation and responsiveness.

Our Values

At San Jac, we are committed to upholding these seven core beliefs:

Integrity: We act honorably and ethically
Inclusivity: We grow through understanding
Collaboration: We are stronger together
Innovation: We embrace new possibilities
Accountability: We are responsible individually and collectively
Sense of Community: We care for those we serve
Excellence: We strive for outstanding results

be bold at san jac

Shaped by input from trustees, faculty and staff, students, and partners, our five-year strategic plan organizes work around BE BOLD. Each goal carries three broad strategies and measurable annual actions. These are aligned to budget decisions and performance plans. Explore how together, we will change lives and strengthen our region.

View the full strategic plan for 2025-2030

B

Break barriers to life-changing opportunities

Expand access to education for a broader range of students
Connect students to support networks and programs that address their highest areas of need
Grow financial aid programs that support students from entry to completion

O

Optimize services, systems, and instructional programs

Establish clear and concise pathways that align with student employment, transfer, and personal goals
Advance student success through quality advising, instruction, and support
Use data and systems analysis to improve program and institutional outcomes

L

Leverage partnerships to create innovative programs and promote success

Build engaged learning environments and tailor teaching modalities and tools to meet the diverse learning needs of our students
Leverage and expand workforce, university, and community partnerships to enhance quality and increase opportunities for student success
Cultivate partnerships that advance social and economic prosperity for students and communities

D

Demonstrate a culture of belonging and excellence

Create a college culture and climate that welcomes our students and employees
Recruit, develop, and retain employees to serve our students and community in exceptional ways
Invest in our people and infrastructure, so all employees can thrive as they support student success