Planning and Budget Steering
Committee Members

Gretchen Bender (Co-Chair)
Phone: (949) 582-4565
gbender@saddleback.edu

Carol Hilton (Co-Chair)
Phone: (949) 582-4782
chilton@saddleback.edu

Estella Castillo-Garrison
Phone: (949) 582-4326
egarrison@saddleback.edu

Claire Cesareo-Silva
Phone: (949) 582-4739
ccesareosilva@saddleback.edu

Bob Cosgrove
Phone: (949) 582-4903
bcosgrove@saddleback.edu

Michael Engels
Phone: (949) 582-4929
mengels@saddleback.edu

Patricia Flanigan-Chapin
Phone: (949) 582-4365
pflanigan@saddleback.edu

Russell Hamilton
Phone: (949) 582-4902
rhamilton@saddleback.edu

Miki Mikolajczak
Phone: (949) 582-4468
mmikolajcza@saddleback.edu

Kate Realista
Phone: (949) 582-4763
krealista@saddleback.edu

Tamara Rice
Phone: (949) 582-4787
trice@saddleback.edu

Lise Telson
Phone: (949) 582-4566
ltelson@saddleback.edu

Rajen Vurdien
Phone: (949) 582-4795
rvurdien@saddleback.edu

Strategic Planning at Saddleback College

Saddleback College’s strategic planning process is a comprehensive and collaborative tool for enabling the college to effectively achieve its mission and move towards its desired vision of the future.  The purpose of this website is to document Saddleback College’s continuous and integrated strategic planning process whereby the college collectively identifies and prioritizes college-wide goals and strategies, implements these goals and strategies, and measures and evaluates the outcomes.  Planning improves the efficiency and effectiveness of the college and facilitates better-informed decisions about the allocation of college resources.  A result of the strategic planning process is a Strategic Plan that provides the direction of the college for the next three years.

Saddleback College uses a bottom-up approach to strategic planning which both begins and ends with all instructional programs and student support and administrative service units on campus and with input from all campus constituent groups.  Utilizing external and internal scans and other planning documents, decisions are made about the strategic directions of the college and the goals and strategies needed to move in those directions.  Once a Strategic Plan is finalized, budgeting and other resource allocation decisions will be largely informed by the Strategic Plan, in conjunction with the needs of instructional programs and administrative units on campus as expressed in completed Program and Administrative Unit Reviews.  The Strategic Plan will not predetermine decisions.  Instead, it will provide a guide or framework within which decision making will take place.

Periodic evaluation and review is also an essential part of strategic planning at the college.  Both the process and the resulting plans will be critically evaluated on an ongoing basis in order to ensure that the needs of the college and all its constituent groups are being met.