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2021–2023 Strategic Plan

 This short-duration strategic framework describes goals and very specific action steps to guide the institution through the current, globally tumultuous era.
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A Practical Guide to Strategic Planning in Higher Education

 A resource for anyone engaged in college or university strategic planning, and an excellent primer for planning committees. This second edition also contains new strategies for using an institution’s strategic plan during times of institutional upheaval, and additional techniques for jump-starting various parts of the planning process.
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Access to Excellence

 This academic plan document enumerates the institution’s academic goals and strategies, with special focus on generating or enhancing interdisciplinary connections between the primary academic themes.
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Build the Future

 Campus master plan document for a STEM-focused institution, deeply aligned with its strategic plan.
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Campus Strategic Sustainability Plan
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Creating a Legacy Like No Other

 Strategic plan for the university, which is beginning its second decade after consolidation.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Plan

 The college’s diversity plan, including detailed strategies and metrics.
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Enrollment Management Plan 2020–2025

 The college’s enrollment management plan, which prioritizes student access and success.
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Futures Work

 From April 2020, the institution’s president led faculty and staff in a rigorous planning and exploration process to ensure that the college remained accessible and thriving through the pandemic and beyond. This bridge plan document details the action steps resulting from that process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Keeping the Focus Month by Month

 By strategically aligning monthly communications with its institutional goals, Muskegon Community College increased its connection with students, employees, and the community while reinforcing a shared sense of ownership.
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Library Strategic Directions

 The university library’s five strategy statements expressing how it will serve the campus community.
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PVCC Futures

 The community college’s strategic plan describing high-level goals and strategies.
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Shaping What’s Next

 The university’s detailed strategic plan, which includes goals focused on student success, diversity and equity, and increasing its presence as a research center.
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Strategic Plan for the Department of Chemistry

 The ten-year goals and strategic unit plan for the chemistry department at the university.
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Strategic Plan for the School of Public Health 2020
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Strategic Priorities 2014–2019

 A high-level document enumerating the institution’s five strategic goals and strategies for achieving each goal.
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Success 2030

 The institution’s 2020–2030 strategic plan.
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Ten for One

 The research university’s 2023 strategic plan.
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Transform, Inspire, Grow

 This overview describes the strategic plan’s five high-level strategies and a few tactics for each.
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Utah Board of Higher Education Strategic Plan 2021

 Strategic plan for the university system developed by the state’s board of higher education.