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Discussions and resources around the unresolved pain points affecting planning in higher education—both emergent and ongoing.
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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!
COVID-19 Response and Planning
Resources for your pandemic response and recovery
There’s an end in sight to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it doesn’t bring much clarity to the scope and depth of the challenges awaiting higher education. What will “return to normal” look like? How severe will the financial repercussions be? These resources on recovery planning can help your college or university in its current response efforts and as it plans for the future.
COVID-19 recovery planning: scenarios, contingencies, continuity
Recovery planning develops and executes initiatives in response to crises, emergencies, and disruptive events. It’s an integrated approach that helps institutions mitigate consequences in the short-term while also determining a long-term path forward.
Recovery planning brings together three planning disciplines: scenario, contingency, and continuity planning:
- Scenario planning helps you anticipate the outcomes of external events and forces. It clarifies an ambiguous future into distinct, realistic possibilities that can guide your decisions.
- Contingency planning supplements scenario planning. It outlines how an institution will respond to a scenario.
- Continuity planning keeps your college or university moving forward during an operational interruption.
Help with COVID-19 recovery planning
Post-pandemic life will not look like pre-pandemic life. The resources on this page will help you both with your current response to COVID-19 and with your preparations for your institution’s future after the pandemic.
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SCUP Community Listserv
How are your peers responding to the impacts of COVID-19? Sign up for this email-based community to ask questions, share your ideas, and learn from other SCUP members. Available to members only.
COVID-19: Resource Allocation Considerations
Chapter 13 of College and University Budgeting, 5th Edition by Larry Goldstein, discusses the difficult decisions that arise when an institution faces severe economic challenges—whether driven by broad-based economic catastrophes, natural disasters, or simply poor management—and offers both short- and long-term responses to difficult financial times. Shared courtesy of NACUBO.
Example Plan
Consolidated Business Continuity Plan for Academic Affairs (California State University-Northridge)
Webinar Recordings
Pivot Complete. Now What? Planning Through the Pandemic to a Sustainable Future
Higher education has become accustomed to a volatile environment. How do institutions navigate through this volatile environment? Scenario planning. Scenario planning generates multiple well-crafted contradictory narratives about the future to anticipate possible outcomes of environmental forces with the potential to impact an institution.
All SCUP COVID-19 Resources by Topic
Click a link from the list below to see all SCUP COVID-19-related resources on the topic.
Other Resources
The SCUP team has collected a few other resources from around the web:
- COVID-19 Planning and Self-Assessment Guide for Higher Education (OpenSmart.EDU)
- Crowdsourced higher education resources (EdSurge)
- Free higher ed resources during coronavirus pandemic (University Business)
- COVID-19 Policy Developments (American Council of Education)
- Making the Move to Online Courses: Resources to Inform Teaching and Learning (National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment)
- ACUE’s online teaching toolkit (Association of College and University Educators)
- Shifting to Online Teaching? How to Keep Your Sanity and Create a Great Course (Gray Associates—Demand Trends Blog)
- Resources for assessment during the COVID-19 outbreak (Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education)
- A Framework for Quality for These Times (Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA))
- CHEA- and USDE-Recognized Accreditors and COVID-19 Information (Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA))
- Helping you deliver on your online promise (Quality Matters)
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