Columbia Gorge Community College’s Institutional Master Plan is finished.  Chief Academic Officer Lori Ufford says staff, faculty, students, employers, and community members participated in developing the plan.  Ufford says the plan brought out a series of specific goals, including ensuring the class schedule meets the needs real-world needs of students, increasing Hispanic enrollment, better coordination of student services, instruction, facilities, the business office, information technologies, and the college’s foundation, and designing a comprehensive marketing plan to increase public awareness of the college’s abilities.  Ufford says the plan identifies many other goals and activities, but the one’s she outlined will be the top priorities for this year.  Keys to those efforts will be a “Student Success Team” to review internal processes and recommend improvements, and using a “guided pathways” model to identify for each student the most timely and cost-effective route to completion of a degree or certificate.