SCUP–48 Call for Proposals

SCUP is the source for cross-disciplinary planning knowledge in higher education. What strategies or actions are you employing right now that cultivate a culture of integrated planning on your campus? We want to know!

Submit a proposal for a concurrent session, workshop, ideas-to-action session, or poster session, 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 are looking for interactive programs that engage audiences and provide tangible walkaways, processes, and results.

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 and help your colleagues navigate their institutions through the complex challenges facing higher education.

Propose a session in one or more of these learning formats:

• Concurrent Sessions
• Workshops
• Poster Forums
• New! Ideas-to-Action Sessions - Learning-labs, team learning, and skill sessions! Note: Wednesday only

How Did You Address Tough Questions?

Here are some questions to stimulate your thinking as you consider submitting a proposal:  

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 have you invested your resources to drive your mission and vision?

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 effect the planning and mission of your campus?

How have you balanced affordability, program quality, and mission goals with funding realities?

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 has the rise of nontraditional students changed your institution’s academic program array, services, and marketing?

How have your overseas programming and international collaborations changed in the last two years?

Resources

SCUP–47 Conference Program
See the programs delivered at our 2012 annual conference.

Top Ten List of "Dos" for Submitting a Proposal
Make your proposal shine with pointers from those who review proposals.

QUESTIONS?  Call 734.764.2001 or 734.764.2008, or email: sadie.wutka@scup.org or kathy.benton@scup.org.