Message from the President
Collaboration, innovation, and responsiveness define Century College. Our 2025–2030 Strategic Plan reflects the voices and insights of students, employees, alumni, and community partners, guiding our priorities for the next five years.
This plan builds on our commitment to student success by empowering academic, professional, and personal growth, providing access to high-quality education, fostering meaningful connections, and strengthening partnerships. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive, supportive, and resilient learning environment that embraces change, advances new solutions, and shares best practices for the benefit of our community and beyond.
Together, we will continue to transform lives, advance opportunity, and strengthen the Century College community now and into the future.
- Angelia Millender, President, Century College
Strategic Goals 2025 - 2030
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1) Century College will empower academic, professional, and personal success to transform lives throughout the College community.
- Preserve and cultivate meaningful connections within internal college communities to strengthen a sense of belonging.
- Broaden supportive resources that meet the needs of both students and employees.
- Hold compassion and rigor as values in opportunities for learning and development among students, staff and faculty.
2) Century College will respond to needs and environmental factors in a changing world to ensure access to quality educational opportunities.
- Intentionally review academic, support, and service programming to adjust offerings in response to evolving industry trends, workforce needs, student interests, and employee expertise.
- Grow and sustain academic, support, and service programming that is responsive to changing factors that impact student well-being, success, and retention. Build cultural competency throughout the Century College community.
- Strengthen college infrastructure and practices to support resiliency and responsiveness.
3) Century College will strengthen collaboration, innovation, and partnerships to grow and sustain the College community.
- Support and celebrate the continued development, adoption, and exchange of successful practices across the campus community.
- Grow, assess, and sustain an infrastructure that supports our external partnerships and collaborations.
- Refine and develop infrastructure to identify, and invest necessary resources for a sustainable culture of internal collaboration and innovation.
2030 Vision Statement
This vision statement should be understood as how we at Century College will describe the College in 2030 after implementing our Strategic Plan.
Century College is recognized for transforming lives through an innovative, rigorous, and compassionate approach to education. We are well-known for ensuring access to quality educational opportunities, supporting a culture of innovation, nurturing collaboration and partnerships, providing supportive resources for our community, and operating in a sustainable manner. Our student-focused culture and commitment to student success drives everything we do. We provide a personal, dynamic and rigorous educational experience so that our students are prepared for a complex and fast-changing world.
Our absolute commitment to and focus on academic, professional, and personal success exemplifies our lived values. We prioritize wellness in all its dimensions and in the health and well-being of our community. We have cultivated meaningful connections for all those in the Century community, which is a model for our partners.
Century College is safe, inclusive, and welcoming for all. We commit resources to support our diverse community in ways that promote equity and belonging, enabling us to respond to the changing needs of our students, employees, and community. We are a place where everyone is valued and supported.
Collaboration is essential to who we are. Century College is known for creating and sustaining trusted partnerships that deliver on mutually beneficial commitments, creating a more sustainable and evolving institution, able to effectively meet its mission and vision. Century operates at the center of a network of internal and external partners, serving the community and providing exceptional, holistic, supportive, and innovative experiences for all.
Century College is known for being innovative. The Century community applies new and better solutions to address all problems and issues facing the college. The College promotes innovation by supporting employees’ and students’ willingness to try new things to take calculated risks. Failure is viewed as a step toward achieving greater success.
Our academic, support, and service programming are resilient, sustainable, and responsive to changing needs, including evolving industry trends, workforce needs, student interests, and employee expertise (align with goal 2). Decisions are data-driven, measured, communicated, and well-resourced. We are recognized for our dedication and accountability, allowing us to remain our region’s top provider and the destination of choice for employment and leading-edge educational programs, experiences, and services.
