Four Guiding Principles for CGTC

CGTC will move forward in accordance with the following guiding principles.

I. Multiple Educational Opportunities
CGTC is committed to establishing a seamless matriculation process, which offers multiple access points to provide students with the options needed to fulfill their career objectives.

CGTC will

• Enable students to enter and re-enter the educational process as ABE, ELP, GED, high school dual enrollment/postsecondary options, nontraditional, college-graduate, and lifelong learning students.

II. Distributed Services, Providing Educational Options Outside of Bibb County
CGTC is committed to providing programs and services no more than 30 to 40 miles away from any county in the College service area by distributing facilities, programs, and services geographically.

CGTC will

• Offer service area specific programs and services to respond to local needs and strengths and to increase options for students.
• Utilize information technology to achieve transparency within and beyond the service area.
• Respond to growth within the service area by providing resources where new demands emerge.
• Enhance and expand the Adult Education program, services, and facilities throughout the communities served.

III. Student Success
CGTC is committed to providing high quality, innovative credit and non-credit academic programs and services to develop individual abilities, promote lifelong learning, and to respond to the needs of the community.

CGTC will

• Strive to provide support for learning so that every adult can fulfill his/her potential to contribute to the economic well being of the Central Georgia region.

IV. Participative Governance
CGTC is committed to creating an environment that fosters a unified colligate community utilizing shared internal governance in order to promote student success.

CGTC will

• Recognize that maintaining this environment will require active participation from all College stakeholders including students, faculty, staff, and other business, community, and educational partners.
• Promote the development of mechanisms of internal communications utilizing exchange-of-views committees based on mutual trust and respect; these committees will be encouraged to communicate horizontally instead of vertically within their departments.