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The 2015-25 TBR Strategic Plan is grounded in Tennessee’s statewide educational attainment goal to achieve 55 percent of adult Tennesseans with a postsecondary credential by 2025. To meet this goal, TBR is committed to a mission of Student Success and Workforce Development.

TBR’s Strategic Plan establishes three key policy pillars, fulfilled by sustained emphasis on four cross-cutting themes. Together, these seven elements are the foundation of the Strategic Plan and provide a framework for how TBR pursues its mission, as well as a roadmap for our colleges to build their institution-specific Strategic Plans.

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TBR is an open-access community and technical college system that serves students of all backgrounds, demographics, income levels, readiness, or circumstances and is committed to meeting student, workforce and community needs for education and training.

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Completion

TBR values completion and is committed to helping students address and confront any existing barriers to completing their programs, whether students are pursuing a transfer degree, a diploma, a short-term certificate or other credential.

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Completion

TBR is committed to improving the condition of individuals, families, and communities across the state, which manifests itself in tangible ways such as economic vitality and mobility, but also by improving and enriching the communities we serve.

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STRATEGIC PLAN
CROSS-CUTTING THEMES

STRENGTHENING COLLABORATION

Central to TBR’s mission and its success is the ability to work collaboratively within and across the system and with partners throughout the state and nation. Within the system, TBR values healthy relationships between and with all colleges and the system office. Across Tennessee, listening to and working with external partners in state government, higher education, K12 education, industry, and philanthropy are crucial to enhancing student success and workforce development. Finally, TBR recognizes the value of voices and perspectives outside Tennessee, whether they be foundations, other state systems, think tanks, or other partners who share its commitment to student success and workforce development.

 

HARNESSING INNOVATION

To meet the challenges we face, TBR will need to pursue and embrace innovations that improve the ways we educate, train and serve students. A hallmark of Tennessee and TBR in recent memory, the commitment to innovation will push us to explore how we reimagine instruction to meet students’ needs, to rethink our current student service structures, and to reinvent systems that are outdated and misaligned with our current and future student needs and challenges.

Academic Mindset    
Amazon Web Services
Apprenticeship Program Development and Expansion    
Blue Oval City  
Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning  
Co-Requisite Learning Support  
Competency Based Education    
Comprehensive Learner Record  
Data Science Grants
High-Impact Practices    
Re-Imagining the Community College Experience
Re-Imagining General Education  
SAILS  
Student, Engagement, Retention, and Success Grants    
TBR Warranty Program    
Tennessee Coaching Project    
Tennessee Open Education  
Tennessee Reverse Transfer
Tennessee Transfer Pathways    
TN eCampus  
TN Promise    
TN Reconnect    

 

ENHANCING INSTITUTIONAL AND OPERATIONAL CAPACITY

TBR leverages our structure as a system to serve colleges and students more efficiently and effectively. The system office implements shared services and operates other college functions that are more difficult or costly to do individually, such as business functions, data capacity, information technology, and others. Furthermore, we help build college capacity by identifying, evaluating, promoting and investing in best practices. 

 

FULFILLING EQUITY

As an open access system, many students we serve face barriers to access and completion and TBR is committed to confronting and addressing those barriers where they exist. The equity challenge is manifest in myriad ways, such as race, gender, age, income, rural/urban and preparation levels. Regardless of the challenge, TBR endeavors to assist each student achieve success, whether that is a credential, successful transfer, workforce readiness or other goals.