The Dallas County Community Colleges, Institute for Economic Development, and Center for Educational Telecommunications are teaching, learning, and community building institutions.

To fulfill the public trust the DCCCD

• offers a student guarantee to the institutions and employers receiving its graduates;
• measures its collective and individual behaviors against a code of ethics and a statement of organizational values;
• makes decisions through a line organizational structure which receives input from those most affected by the decisions;
• strives to provide its services by seeking full formula funding from the State and maintain a balance between the District's local revenue sources with about 40% from tuition sources and 60% tax revenues;
• seeks to maintain the highest possible credit ratings consistent with other institutional goals and objectives;
• views itself as a team player in the local community of educators, business people, elected officials, and other community leaders; and
• sees its role as a weaver of a seamless fabric of learning opportunity for the people of Dallas County.

As a major employer, the DCCCD

• follows open search procedures which solicit the best available candidates for positions to provide a balanced workforce which reflects the ethnic composition of the adult workforce of Dallas County;
• involves those most directly affected by hiring decisions in the candidate review process; and
• seeks to assure that competent performers do not lose real compensation through inflation.

In its organizational culture, the DCCCD

• places ultimate value on student success;
• applies the principles of continuous quality improvement to achieve student success; and
• uses technology not only to teach distant learners, but also to educate, train, and re-tool both its students and its employees.