- Planning Types
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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
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- Conferences & Programs
Conferences & Programs
Upcoming Events
- Community
Community
The SCUP community opens a whole world of integrated planning resources, connections, and expertise.
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Access a world of integrated planning resources, connections, and expertise-become a member!
- 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
-
Access a world of integrated planning resources, connections, and expertise-become a member!
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.
FEATURED RESOURCEWEBINAR RECORDING
The Faculty Factor
Creating Buy-In for Difficult PlanningFaculty 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.
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 TouchRelated 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.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.Conferences, Courses, and Workshops of Interest
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Southern 2023 Regional Conference
October 1, 2023 - October 3, 2023
Houston, TXRELATED PLANNING TYPES
Strategic PlanningAcademic PlanningInstitutional Effectiveness PlanningCampus PlanningResource PlanningDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion PlanningStudent Affairs PlanningStrategic Enrollment Management PlanningContinuity PlanningInformation Technology PlanningSustainability PlanningWhy 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 NewmanDirector of Campus PlanningRhode Island School of Design
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