Call for Proposals: Your Invitation to Present

Be a Thought Leader!

Take part in SCUP–47’s highly-interactive learning community in Chicago next summer as a presenter!

Submit a session proposal and join other higher education leaders who shape new thinking and action. Your presentation could be part of our robust education program that will present practical solutions and applications, fresh approaches, and best planning practices. We want interactive programs that engage audiences and provide tangible walkaways, processes, and results.

What strategies or actions are you employing right now to help your institution navigate through the complex challenges facing higher education? How are you linking and integrating these planning efforts to other areas across your campus and with your institution’s vision, mission, and academic priorities?

Do you have a unique or interesting approach to planning, or lessons you can share? SCUP offers interactive workshops and forums where all the members of academia can share ideas about what works and what does not.

Presenters in this conference are leaders who cut across all planning disciplines in higher education, and include chancellors, presidents, provosts, vice presidents, directors, principals, deans, and architects. Share your best higher education planning practices and solutions.

How Did You Address Tough Questions?

Here are questions you may wish to consider as you think about the direction of your submission:

• How does your mission drive educational quality on your campus?
• Who are the stewards of integrated planning on your campus; how are they effectively integrating planning between units or silos, and taking ideas to action?
• Linking planning and budgeting—you have a plan, now how are you resourcing it?
• How do you infuse planning into the life of your institution?
• How are you integrating your academic program planning with strategic and budget planning?
• How can pedagogy, technology, and architecture work together to optimize learning environments?
• How have changing stakeholder perspectives (trustees, administrators, faculty, students, and/or business partners) impacted the development of your academic programming, services, or physical planning on your campus?
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of your campus footprint, and what changes could facilitate academic, strategic, and fiscal plans?
• Where are we going with the national assessment of skills, learning, and student development in higher education?
• How are you using highly collaborative planning techniques to build consensus, solve problems, or build your brand?
• How do you define and measure academic outcomes and assess the quality of teaching and learning practices?
• How has your institution addressed the needs of faculty to maintain the quality of research and outreach programs during trying times?
• How have you adapted to, chosen, or mandated resource allocation decisions, and how did they affect the planning and mission of your campus?
• How are you using flexible facilities to meet the needs of your institution?
• How are you preparing students for living and working in a global society?
• What can we learn from for-profit institutions?
• How have your overseas programming and international collaborations changed in the last two years?

Submissions for poster sessions will be reviewed in late February 2012. Selected presenters will be notified in March 2012.

Questions? 
Sadie Wutka, sadie.wutka@scup.org, 734.764.2008
Kathy Benton, kathy.benton@scup.org, 734.764.2001