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Planning Together: Linking Strategic Planning, Institutional Accreditation, and Student Learning Outcomes

Presenter(s): Beth Pellicciotti, Purdue University Calumet; Earl H. Potter, Eastern Michigan University
Convener: Stephan Hassell, Erdman Anthony and Associates

Planners and administrators in higher education have many masters. Boards of trustees and external agencies ask us to examine mission and our changing environments. Students and the public seek answers on how well students are learning. At Purdue University Calumet, we are integrating our planning processes by using institutional accreditation as a way to report on the progress of our strategic planning process. The focus of both strategic planning and accreditation is on student learning, the essence of our mission.


This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-seventh annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–37, in San Diego, CA (USA), in July of 2002.

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