About
About the Strategic Plan
Founded in 1966, Massasoit Community College is one of the largest community colleges in the Massachusetts public higher education system and offers associate degree programs in arts, sciences, and applied sciences, as well as one-year and short-term programs for a range of occupations and interests. The College also offers non-credit workforce development certificates, corporate training courses, adult basic education, personal enrichment classes, and Early College programs for high school students. Massasoit Community College has four locations in Brockton, Canton, Middleboro, and the newest location in the center of downtown Brockton. The College offers courses across multiple modalities including face-to-face, online, hybrid, days, evenings, and weekends.
In December of 2018, the campus community began the work to develop the seventh strategic plan for the College. The plan was designed to provide guidelines for continuous improvement between 2020-2025. Launched by President Gena Glickman in November 2018, the process began with a call to action for the college community to look for opportunities to “participate in ways for your voices and expertise to be included in this most crucial project.” The effort was co-chaired by the Chief of Staff and the President of the Academic Senate with the support of the Senior Leadership Team. The Strategic Planning Task Force consisted of volunteers from myriad faculty and staff positions throughout the institution. By the fall of 2019, President Glickman and the Commissioner reviewed Touchpoint III and gained approval to submit the plan to the Department of Higher Education for consideration and approval. Then came COVID.
The COVID pandemic brought about a series of disruptions, putting our original plans on hold and preventing the College from moving ahead strategically. On January 25, 2021, Massasoit’s President Gena Glickman retired, and Dr. Brenda Molife was appointed as an interim President. Despite these challenges, the College continued its search for a new permanent president. On August 9, 2021, Mr. Ray DiPasquale, the seventh President of Massasoit Community College, began his tenure. Ray DiPasquale passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, April 4, 2024.
Under President DiPasquale’s leadership, the campus community undertook a thorough review of the 2019 strategic plan and research. This review was conducted through the lens of the NECHE Interim (Fifth Year) Report submitted in August 2021, the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education’s direction for undergraduate experiences published in “The New Undergraduate Experience: A Vision for Dismantling Barriers, Recognizing Students’ Cultural Wealth, and Achieving Racial Equity in Public Higher Education in Massachusetts”, and the vision defined for the college by the Massasoit Community College Board of Trustees. To facilitate this process, the strategic plan includes the work derived from concept papers originally developed by the community in 2018-2019, with updates for each paper obtained from the NECHE Interim Report (2021) and the Environmental Scan conducted in Fall 2023.
Through an expedited process described in the timeline, the college has developed this plan in consideration of pre-COVID and post-COVID realities to guide the college’s path from 2024-2029. Interim President William Mitchell, who has been a member of the senior leadership team for over a decade and who has previously served as an interim president for the College, has received a mandate from the Board of Trustees to continue the direction of this plan once approved by the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education.