Strategic & Academic
Planning with EMSI
Montgomery College’s Roadmap
to 2020
About Montgomery College
• 2-year college located in Montgomery
County, MD (suburban D.C.)
• Multi-campus (Rockville, Germantown,
Takoma Park/Silver Spring)
• Multiple WD&CE locations throughout the
County
• Current Enrollment = 26,996 (credit) &
23,624 (noncredit)
Analyst Projects
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Ad Hoc Requests
Previous Strategic Plans
MC 2020 Strategic Plan
Career Advisory Boards
Student Learning Outcomes
Grants
Academic Program Review
Career Coach Integration
Previous Strategic Plan
Montgomery College 2020
• Far more robust analysis
• Targeted Demographics
• County & Regional Occupational
Projections
• Programmatic trends and skills gaps
• Accessible and updated data along with
special reports
Targeted Demographics
Montgomery County Demographics - Traditional College Age
Students
65,000
61,011
59,569
59,898
62,072
60,000
59,175
57,531
55,000
54,674
54,161
15 to 19 years
20 to 24 years
50,000
50,946
45,000
44,389
40,000
2001
2005
2010
2015
2020
Educational Attainment &
Occupational Demand
Educational Attainment and Educational Requirement Gap - High School or Less
400,000
350,000
374,717
336,549
347,968
300,000
250,000
271,596
259,198
271,355
200,000
Pop 25+ High School or Less
# Jobs Req. High School or Less
(Covered)
150,000
159,432
171,475
145,198
100,000
50,000
0
2001
2010
2020
# Jobs Req. High School or Less
(Complete)
Educational Attainment and Educational Requirement Gap - Postsecondary Award
and Associate's Degree
160,000
140,000
145,566
136,665
120,000
126,799
100,000
Pop 25+ Postsecondary/Assocate's
77,188
80,000
67,791
60,000
# Jobs Req.
Postsecondary/Associate's (Complete)
57,949
51,871
40,000
43,871
46,424
20,000
0
2001
# Jobs Req.
Postsecondary/Associate's (Covered)
2010
2020
Educational Attainment and Educational Requirement Gap - Bachelor's
Degree/Degree Plus Experience
250,000
207,059
200,000
179,965
162,889
176,963
150,000
179,833
County Pop 25+ Bachelor's
158,105
141,830
122,935
# Jobs Req. Bachelor's Degree
(Covered)
127,407
# Jobs Req. Bachelor's Degree
(Complete)
100,000
50,000
0
2001
2010
2020
Occupational Growth
Occupational Demand
Education and Occupations
Analysis
• Ran same reports for DC-VA-WV-MD
Metropolitan Area
• Identified “overages” and gaps in degree,
certificate, & WD&CE offerings (ongoing)
• Mapped to State and County Economic
Development plans (STEM)
• Used gap analysis to identify current/future
KSAs
Career Cluster Advisory Boards
• Pilot program with the County’s Bioscience
and Biomedical Advisory Board
• Historic programmatic, occupational, and
industry trends
• Projected growth (occupations, skills,
industry needs, regional completers)
• Gap analysis
• Plan to expand to all CCAB’s in
cooperation with Montgomery County
Govt.
Student Learning Outcomes
• Grew out of previous year’s Mission and
Vision Review Project
• Identified industry-specific skills
• Plan is to map to General Education
Program competencies
• Assessment matrices for all GenEd
courses and programs mapped to KSAs
Grants
• Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAACCCT)
• Used occupational transitioning to target
specific occupations for retraining based
on skills gap
• Identified key credit and non-credit
programs for re-tooling based on gap
assessment (focus on HIT/HIM)
• Used extensively by Office of Grants and
Business Development
Academic Program Review
• Started with Health Information
Technology
• Expanding to all Workforce Development
& Continuing Education offerings
• Plan to include key data for next version of
the College’s Academic Master Plan
• Academic Area Review Process (required
part of discipline SWOT)
Career Coach Integration
• Recently launched Career Coach
• Using Career Coach data settings to
supplement Analyst Reports
– Local and regional demand
– Site statistics and popular searches
– KSAs and Curriculum review
• Targeted industry partner joint
environmental scanning projects
• Career/Academic Counseling (FYE)
Upcoming Projects
• Response to City of Rockville proposal for
4-year research college development
• MHEC Curriculum Actions (Diagnostic
Medical Sonography)
• Middle Skills Jobs analysis (gap between
completers and openings)
• Targeted industry environmental scans
(part of MC 2020 Strategic Plan)
Lessons Learned
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Make it public and well-defined
County + Regional for all data types
Growth v. Replacements v. Openings
Data organization – tell the story (example
– Hotel Motel Management, Fairfax
County v. Montgomery County)
• Multiple growth models (best/worst case)
• Demonstrate alignment/explain differences