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A framework that helps you develop more effective planning processes.
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Discussions and resources around the unresolved pain points affecting planning in higher education—both emergent and ongoing.
Common Challenges
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- Planning Types
Planning Types
Focus Areas
-
A framework that helps you develop more effective planning processes.
- Challenges
Challenges
Discussions and resources around the unresolved pain points affecting planning in higher education—both emergent and ongoing.
Common Challenges
- Learning Resources
Learning Resources
Featured Formats
Popular Topics
- Conferences & Programs
Conferences & Programs
Upcoming Events
- Community
Community
The SCUP community opens a whole world of integrated planning resources, connections, and expertise.
Get Connected
Give Back
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Access a world of integrated planning resources, connections, and expertise-become a member!
Competing Priorities
Prepare students for a career. Develop the whole person. Complete cutting-edge research. Steward the institution’s financial health. Higher education institutions often find themselves balancing competing priorities. Sometimes hard choices need to be made; sometimes there’s a third way.
What’s the best way for your university to deal with competing priorities? You won’t know without building relationships, aligning resources, and looking to the future. You won’t know without integrated planning.
FEATURED RESOURCEPLANNING FOR HIGHER EDUCATION JOURNAL
The Hardest Part of Integrated PlanningSetting priorities often includes one of the hardest decisions a college or university must make: determining what you will stop doing. This article looks at higher education’s tendency to avoid these hard decisions and offers some tips you can use in your next planning process.
Build Your Culture of Integrated Planning Through Hands-On Learning
Planning Institute Workshop Series
SCUP’s PI workshop series will help you and your team no matter where you are in the planning process. Learn more about the PI.Integrated Planning Coaching
Get quick, timely problem-solving advice from planning experts with boots-on-the-ground experience. We’re here to help support your institution. Let’s talk! Get in touch.Related Learning Resources
Planning for Higher Education Journal
The Hardest Part of Integrated Planning
If priority setting is done properly, it necessarily means that choices are made to do some things and not do other things.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Transform the Program Strategy, Transform the College
An effective program strategy improves both student access and success while helping the college be more nimble in meeting emerging labor market needs.Report
Succeeding at Planning Survey Report
SCUP partnered with the Baker Strategy Group in 2015 to conduct a study with more than 2,200 leaders who plan at colleges and universities. Several themes emerged around planning challenges and how to respond, which are explored in this report.Planning for Higher Education Journal
Reduce Curriculum Costs While Increasing Student Enrollment
Results of the study supplied evidence needed to support tough institutional decisions. The 13 Kentucky colleges and universities that participated in the research now have critically important data to use in making choices about how they best serve their students, maximize scarce resources, and sustain financial stability.Conferences, Courses, and Workshops of Interest
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June 7, 2023
Webinar (Free for Members) 1:00 - 2:00 PM EasternRELATED PLANNING TYPES
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"SCUP gives leaders of institutions of higher education the tools of integrated budgeting and planning, making us much more effective and efficient stewards of precious resources."Terry BrownVice President for Academic Innovation and TransformationAmerican Association of State Colleges & Universities
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