SCUP Resources
SCUP Portfolios: SCUP Portfolios are collections of articles and other resources, that have been "bundled" into a single PDF document which you can download immediately after purchasing it. Putting everything into a single document means you can search throughout it once you open it! Two portfolios of interest to academic planners are The Faculty and Assessment & Quality.
SCUP's Academic Planning Knowledge Community: A Lyris-based email list where SCUP shares items of interest and members have the opportunity to discuss them and also share items. Anyone (no fee or SCUP membership required) may join "scup-academicplanning-request@umich.edu" with the word "subscribe" in the Subject line of the message.
SCUP Email News: The best way to keep track of SCUP resources, events, and the news items that we share with everyone is by subscribing to our bi-weekly email newsletter (and alerts), "SCUP Email News" (SEN). SEN, published continuously on the Internet since 1987(!) has more than 15,000 subscribers and is free to all. Subscribe here.
SCUP Links: Over the course of each year SCUP collects 400–500 annotated hyperlinks to a variety of useful higher education resources.
SCUP's Collection of College and University Plans: SCUP has nearly 1,000 plans located on college and university websites. This link goes to a complete list; from there SCUP members only may access the same list but with active hyperlinks to each plan.
SCUP Books
Academic Design: Bill Warner, Bill Ammentorp, and others, 78 pages, 2003, $40 US—If you need to understand the elements of an institutional (or large departmental) strategic planning process, this is the book for you. The authors have distilled significant lessons learned from their experiences with a number of mostly smaller colleges and universities, but the principles and processes apply in a wide variety of institutional arenas. more
Connecting the Dots…the Essence of Planning: Edited by Rod Rose, 250 pages, 2003, $75 US—This compilation of top articles from SCUP's journal, Planning for Higher Education, represents the "essence of planning" from among all those published during 1997-2003. Categories include facilities, institutional, academic, technology, resources, and policy planning. more
Doing Academic Planning: Effective Tools for Decision Making: edited by Brian P. Nedwek, 1996, $65 US—This book tells how planners can best situate themselves and their organizations in the emerging network of collaborative resources. The book is organized into the following sections: "Environmental Scanning," "Curriculum Planning," "Enrollment Management," "Human Resources Planning," "Planning for Information Technology," "Student Services," "Academic Planning Within the Larger Context," and "Linking Quality and Accountability." more
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Forthcoming SCUP Events
Connect with higher education planners from around the world and across campus at the largest event of the year at SCUP—43, this July!
Check out the sessions with a focus on academic planning.
See SCUP's event calendar for complete listing.
SCUP's Planning Institute offers Steps I through III at various times and locations, culminating with a certificate presentation after all three steps are completed by an attendee. This is a must-attend series for professionals serious about planning in the Academy.
News
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Higher Education Media Covering Areas of Academic Planning
- Change Magazine (archives are searchable, with some content available on line without a fee, some with a fee): Note: SCUP members may subscribe to Change magazine at a significant discount. Email membership@scup.org with your request to be given a special SCUP subscription code.
- Planning for Higher Education (SCUP) (some articles are available without a subscription for periods of time)
- Chronicle of Higher Education (some articles are available without a subscription; subscribers can receive a daily email newsletter as well)
- University Business Magazine (all articles available free on line; free subscription to daily email newsletter available)
- Dean & Provost (print and subscription only)
- Campus Technology Magazine (a technology slant; all articles available free on line; free subscription to several weekly email newsletters available)
- EDUCAUSE Review (a technology slant, but this writer thinks it is the finest higher education magazine extant; completely available on line for all)
- EDUCAUSE Quarterly (a technology slant; completely available on line for all)
- Public Purpose (from AASCU; covers and lead articles available via PDF with no fee)
- Learning Abstracts (from the League for Innovation in the Community College; a nice series of essays available to all)
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