Strategic Planning

 

Strategic Planning

Kingsborough Community College  

2025-2030 Strategic Plan 

As Brooklyn’s Community College, Kingsborough is developing and launching an ambitious Strategic Plan to guide the College until 2030. The plan sets ambitious targets, strategic priorities and measurable outcomes for the college and create a shared sense across the college community about the shared work for Kingsborough in the coming years.  

Work to Date 

The strategic planning process was managed by the college’s executive leadership and a Strategic Plan Steering Committee. These two groups were responsible for the overall project and worked closely with experts across campus to develop and refine ideas. In Winter 2024-25, five committees, one for each Strategic Plan goal, developed proposals for initiatives and ways of measuring and assessing progress toward the five goals over the course of the plan.  

After feedback during the Middle States Self Study Site Visit in March 2025, the College decided that a sixth Strategic Plan goal related to operational effectiveness was needed.  The goals for the Kingsborough 2025-2030 Strategic Plan are:  

Goal 1: Improve Student Retention and Timely Graduation  

Goal 2: Offer High-Quality Academic Programs that Support Community Needs  

Goal 3: Reduce Racial/Ethnic Equity Gaps  

Goal 4: Prepare Students for Successful Transfer  

Goal 5: Support Students in Successful Workforce Outcomes 

Goal 6: Increase the College’s Operational Effectiveness 

 Structure: 

Key leaders 
Executive Leadership –  
    • Suri Duitch, President   
    • Aaron Charlop-Powers, VP of Strategy and Chief of Staff 
    • Sharon Warren-Cook, Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost 
    • Colleen Davy, Dean of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Effectiveness 
    • Thomas DeGrezia, Buildings and Grounds Department, Chair of the College Council Strategic Planning and Budget Committee 
    • Replaced by Rick Armstrong in Spring 2026  
    • Daniel Kane, Assistant Professor, Tourism and Hospitality, College Council Chair 
    • Amanda Kalin, Director of Curriculum Development and Program Planning, College Council Secretary 
    • Avery Mullen, Registrar 
    • Simone Rodriguez, Vice President, Workforce Development and Continuing Education 

Steering Committee – Executive Leadership team members, Department chairs, Senior staff, College Council leaders 

College Council Strategic Planning and Budget Committee – chair and members 

 Development Timeline (As of May 2026): 

2024 

Brainstorming of goals at Steering Committee Retreat 

August 16 

Presentation of process, structure and potential goals at Fall 2024 Convocation. 

September 19 

KCC Strategic Plan web page launched with opportunity to submit comments on potential goals 

September 

Finalization of goals by Executive Leadership team with input from Strategic Planning and Budget Committee. 

October 

Committees appointed for each goal, charged with developing proposed initiatives and metrics to measure progress on those initiatives. 

Early November 

Committees charged and began development of proposed initiatives 

Late November/December 

 

2025 

Committees submitted proposed initiatives for feedback. 

January 12 

Committees submitted updated initiatives with proposed metrics 

February 15 

Steering Committee discussed proposals and identified potential next steps 

February 26 

Feedback collected at Spring 2025 Convocation 

April 3 

 

 

2026 

 

Gather input from Senior Staff, Executive Team, and Strategic Planning and Budget Committee 

May 

Outline presented at College Council with opportunity for feedback 

June 

Further refine working ideas and build out structure 

Provide monthly updates to the College 

July/August 

Hold workshops for each Goal 

September 

Present plan to Strategic Planning and Budget Committee 

September 

First Meeting Presentation to College Council 

October 

Second Meeting Presentation to College Council for Final Approval 

November 

Release Plan  

November 

 

Committee chairs and members for each goal 

Increase the College's Operational Effectiveness  
    • Suri Duitch, President (co-chair) 
    • Andres Escobar, Vice President for Financial and Administration (co-chair) 
    • Amanda Allison, Academic Success Coach, KCC FLEX 
    • Nadine Browne, Executive Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President 
    • Scott Cally, Professor and Chair, Communications and Performing Arts 
    • Mary Dawson, Associate Provost and Dean of Health Programs 
    • Asif Hussain, Assistant Vice President and Chief Information Officer 
    • Luz Martin del Campo, Lecturer, Behavioral Sciences 
    • Rodney Moye, Administrative Superintendent for Campus Planning and Facilities 
    • Avery Mullen, Registrar 
    • Johana Rivera, Vice President for Enrollment Management 
    • Nancy Sanchez Badillo, Vice President for Advancement 
Reduce Racial/Ethnic Achievement Gaps 
    • Michael Rodriguez (Chair), Program Director, Men's Resource Center 
    • Ann Del Principe, Professor and Chairperson of English 
    • Andrea Gabbidon-Levene, Director of Pre-Matriculated Programs 
    • Brenda Vargas, Director of College Discovery Program 
    • Keisha Thompson, Professor, Behavioral Sciences and Human Services and Director of HURFS-RC 
    • Kristine Mariano, Lecturer, English and ESL Program Co-Director 
    • Lisa Khandhar, Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX and ADA Coordinator 
    • Michael Spear, Assistant Professor, History-Philosophy and Political Science 
Offer High-Quality Academic Programs that Support Community Needs 
    • Paul Ricciardi (Chair), Professor, Theatre Arts 
    • Cynthia Olvina (Chair), Academic Affairs Manager, Vice-Chair College Council and Adjunct Lecturer, Mental Health Program 
    • Anupam Pradhan, Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences 
    • Boris Furchin, Doctoral Lecturer, Mathematics and Computer Science 
    • Cia Kessler, Instructional Designer and Faculty Development Manager 
    • Dorina Tila, Associate Professor, Business 
    • Gordon Alley-Young, Dean of Faculty 
    • Hun Bok Jung, Assistant Professor, Physical Sciences 
    • James Pacello, Doctoral Lecturer, English 
    • Mina Abusafe, Senior Academic Advisor 
    • Monica Joseph, Associate Professor, Allied Health 
Improve Student Retention and Timely Graduation 
    • Althea Maduramente (Chair), Director of Access-Ability and Student Wellness Services 
    • Michael Weisenfeld (Chair), Academic Resources Center Director 
    • Andrew Bartholomew, Student Success Technology Manager 
    • Anna Geller-Koplan, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Professional Training 
    • Faith Fogelman, Program Director of TRiO Student Support Services 
    • Martha Greasley, ASAP Program Director 
    • Melissa Jn Pierre, Lecturer, Continuing Education 
    • Ryan McKinney, Professor, Theatre Arts, Director of the Theatre Arts Program and Director of KCTL 
    • Zuleika Clarke, Academic Student Support Program Director 
Prepare Students for Successful Transfer 
    • Melissa Merced (Chair), Director of Student Life 
    • Chanel Bishop, Assistant Dean of Advisement 
    • Joseph Verdino, Assistant Professor, Psychology and Area Coordinator for Psychology 
    • Juliana Dorcelus, Transfer Manager 
    • Scott Cally, Professor and Chair, Communications and Performing Arts 
    • Stefan Mallie, Enrollment Registrar Specialist 
    • Tian Cai, Lecturer, Mathematics and Computer Science 
    • Tommy Mintz, Associate Professor, Art Department 
Support Students in Successful Workforce Outcomes 
    • Dmitry Brogun (Chair), Assistant Professor, Biology 
    • Asif Hussain, Assistant Vice President for Information Technology 
    • John Acosta, Professor and Director of Media Arts 
    • Jonathan Cavalieri, Institutional Effectiveness Manager 
    • Karolina Bizik, Director of Continuing Education 
    • Marisa Joseph, Student Career Program Director 
    • Nathan Cooper, Lecturer, Art 
    • Penny Soden, Grants Development Manager and Perkins Grant Officer 

Previous KCC Strategic Plans

Kingsborough Community College's Strategic Planning process is crucial in ensuring that the College is always working toward its mission of offering high quality, affordable, innovative, student-centered programs of study that prepare graduates for transfer and the workforce. The process involves taking a look at the history, past, and future of the College and determining the needs of our diverse students, faculty, and staff, and using that look to set goals and develop strategies that will meet those needs.

Strategic Planning starts with the strategic roadmap of the City University of New York. The newest version of CUNY’s Strategic Plan is CUNY Lifting New York, which was approved in Summer 2023. This document provides direction to the University system as a whole and ensures that each individual College is working alongside the other Colleges to ensure student success.

College-wide Strategic Plan

In Spring 2022, Kingsborough Community College approved its current College-wide Strategic Plan, which is used to guide the work of all areas in the College and ensure that each area of the College is working together to meet our goals.

In addition to this over-arching Strategic Plan, the College also has more targeted plans which work alongside the Strategic Plan and focus on specific aspects of the College’s function. The Academic Plan specifically focuses on academic aspects of the College, and the Vision 2023 Enrollment Plan specifically focuses on streamlining and enhancing work related to recruitment, admissions, and enrollment.

CUNY Lifting New York: Our New Strategic Plan KCC 2020-2025 Academic Plan KCC 2023-2027 Enrollment Plan

Strategic Plans work together best when they have clear alignment between them. The Academic Plan and Strategic Plan both have large amounts of alignment with the CUNY Strategic Roadmap, which helps them determine how KCC will go about implementing the CUNY Strategic Roadmap in a way that still supports Kingsborough’s institutional mission. These alignment charts show how each plan aligns with the goals and initiatives laid out in the Strategic Roadmap, and with the metrics used to measure progress on the Strategic Roadmap

It is also important that plans within the College show alignment with each other. Here is a chart showing how the Academic Plan aligns with the overarching KCC Strategic Plan:

The development of the College’s current Strategic Plan took place over the course of many years, and was punctuated by the shift to remote work as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. During this work, three major themes arose that were determined to be crucial to the College’s success:

Coordination, which involves ensuring that the various structures of programs, services, and policies work together to serve the mission of the College as effectively as possible

Collaboration, which involves working together across the boundaries of the College’s organizational chart.

Communication, which involves ensuring that information is easily accessible and keeps students, faculty, and staff up to date as services, policies, or circumstances change.

With these three key themes in mind, the Strategic Planning Committee developed the Strategic Framework for its Strategic Plan, which consisted of five Key Pillars:

  • Student Success
  • Operational Excellence
  • Governance and Planning
  • Community and Communication
  • Workforce Development and Strategic Partnerships

After extensive surveys and discussions, definitions of these areas were developed, incorporating feedback and input from surveys and discussion groups to determine how the College defines and achieves each area. These definitions then became the Areas of Emphasis of the Strategic Plan. See the Executive Summary of the Strategic Plan, with the Key Pillars and Areas of Emphasis, here.

From there, the College needed to determine how it would go about achieving each Areas of Emphasis. Through more surveys, discussions, focus groups, and retreats, the Strategic Planning Committee developed a list of recommended Key Strategies and Initiatives that addressed each Area of Emphasis. The Key Strategies were then shared with the heads of divisions for their feedback.

The result of this work is a comprehensive Strategic Plan Implementation Plan, consisting of the 5 Key Pillars, 18 Areas of Emphasis, and 62 Implementation Strategies. See the Implementation Plan, with the Key Pillars, Areas of Emphasis, and Implementation Strategies here.

 

Members of the Strategic Planning Committee

The Strategic Planning Committee is one of the standing committees of the College Council. They meet regularly to review the strategic and financial plans for the College and provide guidance and feedback to the College on how to best ensure that its strategic plans are implemented effectively.

The 2022-23 Strategic Planning Committee consists of the following members

Daniel Kane (Chair)

Dominic Wetzel (Secretary)

Ed Rios

Anna Rozenboym

Judith Cohen

Tyronne Johnson

Dawn Levy

Aba Agolli (Non-voting member)

Colleen Davy (Non-voting member)

*Non-voting members are not members of the College Council (cannot vote during committee meetings) but are viewed as full committee members.
The committee members will change at the next College Council meeting on June 6th when some member's terms expire, and council members may be appointed to a different standing committee.
 

Assessing Progress on the Strategic Plan

Once the Implementation Strategies were devised, the next step is to ensure that the proposed strategies are implemented, and that they are effective achieving their desired outcomes related to each area of emphasis.

The assessment of the Strategic Plan relies heavily on the three themes identified during the Strategic Planning Committee: Collaboration, Coordination, and Communication. Many of the key strategies require collaboration between multiple divisions, or include contributions from multiple divisions, and thus require significant communication and coordination between units. To assist in achieving these goals,

the Office of Institutional Effectiveness plays a key role in collecting and sharing updates from the divisions, as well as conducting assessments to measure the overall impact of these key strategies and initiatives on the College as a whole. 

The Office engages in a variety of projects geared toward tracking progress and assessing the effectiveness of the College’s work related to its Strategic Plan. Some key components of this work include:

  • Reporting on College-wide key performance indicators, such as student enrollment, retention, graduation, and post-graduation outcomes
  • Conducting College-wide assessments, such as the Faculty and Staff Satisfaction Survey
  • Working with individual units or divisions to conduct assessments of specific strategies and initiatives that align with the Strategic Plan

An overview of the assessment approach was presented at Spring 2023 Convocation. The slides are available here.

The Office of Institutional Effectiveness will use annual reporting from units and divisions to provide regular updates to the College on how progress is being made to address the Strategic Plan. Those updates can be found here.

Fall 2022 Strategic Plan Updates 

Fall 2023 Strategic Plan Updates