St. Philip's College incorporates the Good 2 Great principles in its effort to make the college a top community college. Although these efforts are ongoing since May 2007, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted St. Philip's College's to make a change in its strategic planning. To create an open, transparent, bottom-up and collaborative strategic planning process, the college integrated Future Search. The college has created short, mid and long-term goals for planning that are flexible enough to allow periodic evaluation in an ever changing educational environment.