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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.

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The Hardest Part of Integrated Planning

Setting 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.

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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.
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Leveraging New Tools to Revolutionize Transformation Efforts and Outcomes

 June 7, 2023
Webinar (Free for Members) 1:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern
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SCUP Planning Institute: Foundations

 July 28, 2023
Cleveland, OH
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SCUP Planning Institute: Design

 July 29, 2023 - July 30, 2023
Cleveland, OH
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SCUP 2023 Annual Conference

 July 30, 2023 - August 1, 2023
Cleveland, OH
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Terry Brown

Why I’m a SCUP Member...

"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 Brown
Vice President for Academic Innovation and Transformation
American Association of State Colleges & Universities



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