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About ASI

Achieving System Integration (ASI) calls for Seattle Colleges faculty and staff to work and think as a system in order to achieve Organizational Excellence. It is a deliberate and ongoing process requiring measurement, review, reflection, and refinement.

Through diligent, thoughtful, and well-organized work, Seattle Colleges will become more competitive externally and more coordinated and coherent internally. This positions us for the future, helps us meet the ever-growing expectations, improves our service to students, enables us to weather budget shortfalls, and makes us more competitive.

Benefits of ASI

  • Effectively ties the colleges and district together
  • Improves service to students and our community
  • Leverages resources
  • Improves fiscal sustainability and service
  • Helps students move smoothly and seamlessly within and across our colleges
  • Increases our operational efficiency and consistency
  • Positions Seattle Colleges for success

Goals

Student Success

The success of our students is the central focus of Seattle Colleges. We strive to make steady gains in improving student satisfaction, retention, completion, and job placement, as well as narrowing student performance gaps.

Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Community

At Seattle Colleges, we firmly establish equity, diversity, and inclusion as a strategic goal and as human rights for all. We frame our decisions and actions with a lens of equity, diversity, and inclusion and are accountable to the community.

Organizational Excellence

Seattle Colleges aspires to achieve excellence as Seattle’s open-admission institution of higher education. We seek to achieve continuous improvements in excellence in teaching and learning, operational efficiency and fiscal sustainability, strategic innovation, employee growth and engagement, and diversity and inclusion.

Partnerships

As an important engine of economic development, Seattle Colleges values and invests in strategic and ongoing partnerships with educational, business, governmental, labor, and community organizations.