Workshops

Planning is about developing an explicit way for making choices. An effective planning process focuses the campus, and the various constituencies and players, on what the choices are and how to make them in an integrated way.  Choices made in this way include careful consideration of the real costs and a commitment to allocate the necessary resources to bring them to fruition. What integrated planning truly fosters is a culture of planning that allows institutions to be nimble enough to respond to unanticipated threats and opportunities.

Participants in the initial workshop in the series of three use SCUP’s Walnut College case study to apply the basic elements of integrated planning. The value of evidence-based planning is emphasized, as is the central place that the academic mission holds in focusing and driving campus decisions. Integrated planning promotes institutional distinctiveness that is sustainable.

Four key questions drive planning and the discussions in this workshop:

1. Whom do we wish to serve?
2. What programs and services will reinforce our distinctive image?
3. How do we want to be perceived?
4. How will we know we are succeeding?

Step I models the elements of effective planning by creating a collaborative environment through the delivery of the workshop content. It ensures that participants have the opportunity to address the questions they brought, to build national networks for ongoing discussions, and to understand how integrated planning addresses issues of accountability and accreditation.

This interactive workshop reviews the factors institutions encounter in establishing and operating remote campuses and uses exercises covering five topics to help participants strategize and plan these facilities. Strategy: What's the purpose of this campus? How much should it duplicate functions of the main campus? How does it complement or extend your institution? Culture: How do you transplant successful components of the main campus' existing social and cultural DNA into a geographically and culturally distinct environment? How can the social fabric that made the institution great in one location be transplanted? Financial: What should you factor into financial analysis? What financial incentives are possible from the new host location? What about tuition? Academics and Instructional Technology: How do you tie the remote campus community to the main campus? What should you consider as you plan instructional technology? Brand: How is the identity of satellite similar or differentiated from the main campus?

Optional event. Additional fee required.

Cost: $95/$120 Member
        $120/$145 Nonmember

Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop a mission statement, objectives, and preliminary market analysis for a new campus.
2. Identify and plan involvement of stakeholders at institutional and local levels.
3. Quantify and forecast major expenditures and long-term operating costs.
4. Identify institutionally critical academic and co-curricular functions and develop potential strategies for transference to a new campus.