Challenges

Featured Challenges

In a VUCA world (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous), challenges come fast and often. SCUP can help. Browse our featured challenges to find the resources you need:

Accreditation can be an anxiety-inducing trudge . . . or an opportunity to showcase your college’s or university’s accomplishments. What makes the difference? Planning—both for your institution’s future and for the accreditation process itself.

Change in colleges and universities needs to be nurtured, starting with an institution’s culture and the beliefs that underpin it. And that’s where integrated planning excels.

What’s the best way for your university to deal with competing priorities? Sometimes hard choices need to be made; sometimes there’s a third way. You won’t know without integrated planning.

Colleges and universities need to prepare for the effects of climate change, but we’re not just passive victims of circumstance. With integrated planning, we can literally save the world . . . together.

Active stakeholder engagement in analysis, discussions about the future, brainstorm sessions, action planning, and decision-making will supercharge your college’s or university’s strategic plan . . . and every other plan.

When college or university funding gets cut or seems to evaporate, our first action is reaction. But for higher education, changes in funding can be opportunities . . . if you’re doing integrated planning.

No one wants their college or university strategic plan to sit on the shelf, collecting dust. So how do you make sure your plan is implemented and serves as a dynamic guide to decisions across campus? Alignment.

It’s clear that the siloed diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives of the past are not enough to resolve the ongoing, systemic inequities that are woven into nearly every aspect of Western society and its institutions—including higher education. Transformative change calls for integrated planning.

Disasters, emergencies, and other disruptive events can derail colleges and universities. If higher education wants to thrive (not just survive), then we must address the disruptions and turmoil today in a way that keeps us moving towards our envisioned tomorrow. We must act and react together using integrated planning strategies.

Colleges and universities know that they need to look at students holistically, understand students’ needs, and provide the services and support that will help students succeed. Pulling everyone together to improve student retention in higher education is hard. It requires integrated planning.