Prioritizing Administrative Programs and Activities - Content
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Bob Dickeson and Larry Goldstein will join us this July at our annual conference to help you:
How does your institution make critical decisions regarding program enhancement or program discontinuation?
What data are necessary to make effective program prioritization decisions?
Whether your need to prioritize administrative programs is driven by economic pressures, the need to revise resource allocation principles and methodologies to better align with your school’s mission and priorities, or the need to cut underperforming programs—the institutions that thrive will have a sound conceptual framework and process that sets their administrative priorities.
Presenters Robert Dickeson and Larry Goldstein have worked with hundreds of campuses to help administrative and academic leaders ensure their resources are used as effectively as possible to further institutional success. Draw upon their decades of research and service to identify the best practices that successful institutions use to shift resources from lower priority areas to those that contribute to institutional success.
This webinar will focus entirely on ways and tools to help you think about and effectively manage the prioritization of administrative programs. This includes all non-classroom and non-lab activities.
The program will draw upon elements of Dickeson’s book, Prioritizing Academic Programs and Services. The program will be highly interactive, with questions via text or live call-in throughout the program. Participant handouts will include:
- PDF of the PowerPoint from the presentation,
- Worksheets to help you think about criteria to use in evaluating programs for prioritization
- A post-program executive brief of key elements from the webinar
Have a question that you want the presenters to address during the program? Email it to: webcast.question@scup.org.
- Discover the key elements of priority-setting, including process, mission clarification, and leadership.
- Explore the range of criteria that can apply to administrative programs and activities.
- Think through your own institution’s readiness for prioritization, based on real-life experiences of hundreds of campuses.
This webinar is designed to bring the key and guiding principles of administrative prioritization to the leadership teams responsible for these decisions. This program is a time- and cost-effective way to share this knowledge with your team members:
- Presidents/CEOs
- Provosts
- Chief Financial Officers
- Chief Planning Officers
- Institutional Researchers
- Individuals who want to better understand the prioritization decision-making process
Program overview
- Overview of prioritization including process and roles
- Assessing your readiness and goals for prioritization
Essential Elements of Inclusive, Transparent Planning Processes
- Building a credible task force
- Guiding principles
- Faculty participation
- Effective communication systems
Reaffirming Institutional Mission
- Understanding mission through both an historical lens and a market lens
- "Operational mission" or "program direction" statements
Defining What Constitutes a Program
- How to define administrative and academic programs
- Managing programs with multiple expectations
Selecting Appropriate Criteria
- 10 criteria, including what they mean and how to measure them
- How different institutions might weight criteria differently
- How to engage faculty and staff to take ownership of the criteria
The Tough Questions
- Unpacking the really difficult questions around prioritization—people, process, politics
Administrative Program Review and Criteria
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Unique considerations for reviewing administrative programs:
- Outsourcing options
- Customer focus
- Technological improvements
- Process streamlining
- Collaboration
Questions? Contact Kathleen Benton, Associate Director / Education & Product Development, Society for College and University Planning, 734.764.2001 / kathy.benton@scup.org
Webcast questions? Comments?
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