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BRCC's Mission

Mission

The mission of Baton Rouge Community College is to be the preferred provider of talent for a global marketplace.

BRCC Standards of Excellence, Our Values

DISTINCTIVENESS
Commit to advancing culture and promote BRCC as the #1 choice for education and training.

  • Build a sense of identity and pride
  • Celebrate individual and institutional successes
  • Engage in the ongoing improvement of communication, methods, and processes

INSPIRATION
Strive for the highest standards of quality, purpose-driven engagement, and continuous improvement in every aspect of your work.

  • Contribute and/or generate new ideas
  • Identify solutions and share input
  • Create space for feedback, open dialogue, and collaboration

COLLABORATION
Ensure student and employee success by actively providing safe and welcoming environments, decision-making, strategic planning, and operational outcomes.

  • Work cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared outcomes
  • Continue to evaluate and maintain services that provide access and remove barriers
  • Include community partners in decision-making processes that impact our community
  • Partner with colleagues to get work done
  • Attentively listen to students and colleagues, provide timely and helpful information to others across the college

 

INNOVATION
Design and create an environment, processes, and practices that empower our students and employees to be curious, creative, and solutions focused.

  • Come up with useful ideas that are new, better, or unique
  • Identify and create processes to get work done
  • Be solutions focused
  • Embrace change as an opportunity
  • Support creative thinking
  • Be a positive contributor

ACCOUNTABILITY
Demonstrate a personal commitment, responsibility, and competence toward individual high-performance to achieve our goals, Standards of Excellence, and fulfill our mission.

  • Follow through on commitments and make sure others do the same
  • Champion others’ ideas or positions and settle differences in a productive way
  • Model our Standards of Excellence
  • Work toward mission-aligned goals
  • Engage in difficult feedback conversations
  • Take personal responsibility for decisions, actions, failures, and act with a clear sense of ownership

TRUST
Work together and interdependently in a way that contributes to effective, creative, and collaborative work towards shared goals.

  • Exercise respectful consistency in behavior and actions  
  • Show an understanding of the community we serve
  • Be an employee that other employees and students can count on
  • Be honest in word and action
  • Assume positive intent when interacting with colleagues