Victor Valley Community College District

Victor Valley College

Chapter 8:

Overall Technology/Equipment Requirements

1.            Introduction

The mission of the Technology Master Plan is to guarantee appropriate technology and information services support to actively promote student success, expand student educational opportunities, and empower all members of the campus community to contribute to the educational goals of the college.  Fulfillment of this mission is crucial to maintaining the college's leadership in higher education.  The technology plan laid out in the following pages represents a process rather than a state.  It is a document designed both to initiate an evolutionary process of evaluating the current technological needs at all levels of the organization and to reflect the organization's commitment to the present and future integration of technology with education and support services.

The first element of this technology plan consists of a number of DRIVING FORCES–developments in education and other fields which demand creative responses such as those embodied in this plan.  These are followed by seven broad PRINCIPLES on which college's attention and energy must be focused through years of proactive change.  It is expected that as the GOALS under each principle are fulfilled, new goals will replace them.  For each of the GOALS, IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES are provided–activities that facilitate the achievement of one or more goals.  These strategies, too, will change over time.  Finally, the CONCLUSION acknowledges the major challenges which the campus community must address to ensure success and identifies the crucial areas of the technology plan that should receive immediate attention.