SCUP Briefs

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Q. What is a SCUP Brief?

A. In each SCUP Brief, you will find a highly-rated SCUP–43 concurrent session presenter's slide show, annotated with their own written narrative of what was shared during the live, face-to-face session.

SCUP Briefs are:

• PDF documents,
• Searchable,
• Readable on your computer screen, and
• Printable.

We hope that you find them a useful, inexpensive SCUP resource.

Attending a SCUP event is an experience that provides a wealth of valuable knowledge, connections, and ideas. SCUP Briefs are our way of bringing face-to-face conference program content out to a wider SCUP audience.

At a price of only $5 for SCUP members and $15 for nonmembers, these are handy and affordable documents at a time when we all need more such things.

Thank you to the SCUP–43 presenters who gave of their time to help us prepare these first SCUP Briefs. More will be available over the next few months.

If you attend SCUP–44 in Portland, July 18–22, you can find them and thank them in person.

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The Road Less Traveled: Strategic Enrollment Planning in 21st Century Higher Education,
97 pages (PDF)

By Brian Dalton, Vice President, Enrollment Management and Associate Academic Dean, Program Development, The College of St. Scholastica and Jim Mager, Associate Vice President, Noel Leviz

While often talked about, few institutions in higher education practice strategic enrollment management planning. Regardless of public or private sponsorship, American higher education is increasingly pressured to manage its long-range enrollment plans so as to remain true to mission, meet educational expectations, and maintain or achieve financial strength.

This brief is for leaders in higher education who seek the means by which to facilitate long-range enrollment planning with an eye toward the fiscal reality of future anticipated investments and expenses. It focuses on the foundational elements of what constitutes successful strategic enrollment planning and constitutes a best practice session, complete with critical assessment metrics.

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Less Than a Semester: A High-Speed Planning Process,
33 pages (PDF)

By Shawna Arroyo, Project Specialist and Randy Bamford, Director, Senior Administration, each from New Mexico State University; and Michael Hites, Associate Vice President, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

This brief explores how New Mexico State University developed its strategic planning process in only one semester. It provides an overview of NMSU's process, including:

• Choosing the planning process task force;
• Why university deans were intentionally excluded from the creation of the process (but included in he final approach process);
• The creation of an initial workbook that was not only a process development tool but a sales tool; and
• Tricks for getting involvement from stakeholders.

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Stimulating and Sustaining Regional Economies Through Community College Workforce Development,
36 pages (PDF)

By Peter Blake, Vice Chancellor, Workforce Development Services and Marcia Harrington, Director, Institutional Research, both of the Virginia Community College System

Today we face changes in our economy and in our demography that challenge our conventional view of higher education: State and regional economies are struggling, industries are moving offshore, and the workforce is aging.

Meanwhile, the US is falling behind other industrial nations in educational attainment. Higher education often is seen as the key to intellectual and economic progress. Workforce development, particularly in a community college setting, is a near-immediate response to these emerging trends.

Learn more about what workforce development means, how it does its work, and how it stimulates change and improvement in regional economies.

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Holistic Learning Environments: Integrating Campus and Community Planning in the 21st Century,
40 pages (PDF)

By Bev Wood, Senior Planner, URS Corporation

As colleges and universities engage more fully with their host communities to explore synergistic planning and development opportunities, the model for creating "learning communities" must expand to include multi-generational, public/private, sustainable environments where learning occurs on and off campus, formally and informally, directly or tangentially.

This model will focus on planning and designing vibrant, livable and sustainable communities that are enriched by, and infused with, learning opportunities.

The discussion will focus on blending campus and community planning in support of the educational institution's mission to provide lifelong learning opportunities and the community's goal to create social, economic, and environmental vibrancy.

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