b'MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST COMMUNITY COLLEGEways, it also cultivates a risk-taking atmosphere, which allows employees to be creative and inventive within their own disciplines.From adopting a new technology withinCall for Topics Phase 1a classroom to building new state-of- Emailed to Stakeholders the-art facilities, MGCCC empowers itsRequest foron August 24, 2017stakeholders to pursue excellence in waysPhase 2Proposals Emailed to Stakeholders that support the mission, Strategic Planon September 21, 20172020, and the Quality Enhancement PlanCall for of the institution. Phase 3Feedback Survey sent on November 10, 2017 with a deadline of Topic Selection Final December 12, 2017Phase 4With the colleges mission and Strategic Plan 2020Selection Topic Approved by (2011) guiding it, the QEP Topic Selection Committee Board of Trustees on comprised of faculty, staff, student, and administrativeJanuary 17, 2018representatives from both academic and Career-Technical disciplinesemployed the approachFigure 2.Topic Selection Processapproved by the Board of Trustees in August 2017. The approach established a four-phase plan: 1. Call for Topics, 2. Request for Proposals, 3. Call for Feedback,The committee made it a priority to distribute the and 4. Final Selection as seen in Figure 2.In each phasecall for topics as broadly as possible because of the of the plan, the committee focused on maximizingintegral, reciprocal relationships that exist between input from all of the colleges stakeholders.Therefore,the college and its stakeholders. The college serves MGCCCs ongoing, comprehensive planning anda diverse and vibrant district replete with business evaluation processes led to the identification of theand industry, thousands of current, former, and topic in two ways.First, the approach was part of aprospective students, hundreds of talented and normal submission process for innovative ideasthecommitted employees, current and former members Innovators Awards.Second, through this approachof the military, and a number of vital community the colleges planning guided the discussion andorganizations, each of which constitutes a critical part institutional data informed and distilled the topics. of the colleges identity and each of which has specific needs. While each group has unique needs and Phase #1Call for Topics makes unique contributions to the college, the groups During Phase One: Call for Topics, the collegecomplement each other to accomplish the colleges invited stakeholders to submit topic ideas for themission and to fulfill its commitments. Therefore, it QEP.MGCCCs President, Dr. Mary S. Graham,was crucial that each stakeholder had a voice in the emailed a survey requesting topics to more thantopic selection process. Table 1 shows the media 12,000 stakeholders, faculty, staff, students, partnersthrough which the committee reached each distinct in business and industry, and community organizationsgroup of stakeholders:(Appendix C).The college created a Web page and an email address solely for QEP-related inquiries, and the QEP Topic Selection Committee members held face-to-face listening sessions on each campus, at each center, and with advisory groups to gather topic ideas.10 MGCCC QEP 2019'