SCUP Planning Institute

Whether you are new to the field or are an experienced professional, you will find the institute is a concrete way to create an effective network of planning colleagues, learn best practices, and grow in your career. This intensive, three-step program on integrated planning in higher education is designed to develop the following six competencies in participants:

• People—the ability to understand and identify the players who are or should be part of the planning process and their roles
• Language—the ability to use a common planning vocabulary to interpret and translate the ideas of all players
• Process—learn how to create and facilitate an integrated planning process; provide guidance and leadership through all stages of planning, including managing change
• The Plan—the ability to recognize and produce the elements of an integrated plan that can be implemented and evaluated
• Planning Context—the ability to collect and filter relevant information of the internal and external environment
• Resources—the ability to identify alternative and realistic resource strategies and align them to stated plan priorities, thus grounding the plan in fiscal realities.

Taken in sequence, the SCUP Planning Institute Steps I, II, & III, represent a unique merging of the knowledge of experts in planning with a dedication to using assessment to continuously enhance each workshop’s outcomes for participants. Institute faculty members are drawn from across the country and the world, from all types of institutions. They facilitate learning through engaging exercises, small group work, and analysis of the SCUP Walnut College case study.

On Campus Offerings

Interested in bringing the planning institute to your campus?

Contact Phyllis Grummon, SCUP director of planning and education, at phyllis.grummon@scup.org or 734.998.6661.