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Engaging Stakeholders

In higher education, new initiatives go nowhere without broad buy-in from stakeholders. But buy-in isn’t developed by holding a couple of meetings or sending a survey. 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. Integrated planning builds the relationships you need to truly engage stakeholders in shaping your institution’s future.

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WEBINAR RECORDING
The Faculty Factor
Creating Buy-In for Difficult Planning

Faculty support—crucial to planning—can be difficult to obtain, particularly if faculty have been burned by previous planning processes. This webinar recording details how two different planning efforts successfully won faculty support.

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Related Learning Resources

Planning for Higher Education Journal

Engage With Purpose

 Your campus community has valuable insights to offer your planning initiatives. Design your engagements with care, using a framework that underscores purpose.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Integrated Planning

 When planning in higher education institutions is done well, it can be transformative; when it is done poorly, it can be disastrous. The key to an effective strategic plan is that it is developed with the input and buy-in of all stakeholders.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Collaborative, Ongoing University Strategic Planning Framework

 Planners at Cleveland State University describe that institution’s highly communicative and participatory strategic planning process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Engaged Institutions, Responsiveness, and Town-Gown Relationships

 Campus planners cannot discern the future requirements of their host communities if they do not know what those stakeholders want and need from their local institutions of higher learning.
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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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Conferences, Courses, and Workshops of Interest

Conference

North Atlantic 2023 Regional Conference

 March 22, 2023 - March 24, 2023
Hilton Albany
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Pacific 2023 Regional Conference

 March 27, 2023 - March 29, 2023
Davis, CA
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SCUP 2023 Annual Conference

 July 30, 2023 - August 1, 2023
Cleveland, OH
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Southern 2023 Regional Conference

October 1, 2023 - October 3, 2023
Houston, TX
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Annie Newman

Why I’m a SCUP Member...

"The resources that SCUP provides—from the email news to the Planning for Higher Education journal to the conferences—have proved invaluable to my growth and success as a planner. I come away from conferences energized and full of new ideas to try out at my campus."
Annie Newman
Director of Campus Planning
Rhode Island School of Design



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