SCUP 2021 Annual Conference

Connect. Inspire. Ignite.

Early-bird pricing ends June 1. 

Join us for the all-virtual SCUP 2021 Annual Conference where higher education leaders will share their stories — stories of boundary spanning, cross-functional teams, and resource alignment. These stories will motivate, connect, and ignite new ideas that will help you prepare for whatever is next.

We’re looking forward to sharing the stories that have made an impact in higher education.

Stories make us stronger.

Now, more than ever, we need to bring our experiences, our insights, our integrated planning success stories together. Aligning our resources, building relationships, and creating preparedness for change is where the SCUP community excels and is the very definition of integrated planning. For us to be stronger, we must plan together.

The pieces are coming together.

Be ready to learn about how integrated planning practices have created positive change, how planning helped to make something right, and what higher education’s next chapter will look like.

Win a Free Integrated Planning
Coaching Session!

Register by June 1 for the chance to win a
free coaching session! ($1000+ value)

*Offer includes one (1.5 hour session) along with one (1 hour) planning call.

Program Highlights

Tuesday Keynote Speaker

Guy Kawasaki | The Art of Innovation

Chief Evangelist, Canva; Former Chief Evangelist, Apple; Brand Ambassador, Mercedes Benz; Best-Selling Author of 13 Books with Over Ten Million Social-Media Followers

Guy will explain how to create innovative products and services using tactical and practical techniques. He’ll pull examples from Apple and other tech firms to illustrate ten key concepts of innovation and change. These are methods, honed of the firing line of tech businesses, that schools can apply to their own staffs as well as teach to their students.

Featured Speakers

Rufus Glasper
President and CEO
League for Innovation in the Community College

Terry Hartle
Senior Vice President, Government Relations and Public Affairs
American Council on Education

Ken Steele
Higher Ed Futurist

Karen Stout
President & CEO
Achieving the Dream

Start your own integrated planning story now. Here are some hallmarks of integrated planning:

• Cross-functional collaboration: Do people from different departments or functions discuss, decide, and act together?
• Alignment up, down, and/or sideways: How do institutional priorities and day-to-day actions influence each other? How do decisions in one area of the college or university connect to decisions in another area?
• Planning linked to resource allocation and assessment/metrics: Does the plan inform resource decisions? Do performance data inform plan decisions?
• Collaborative governance: Do key stakeholders have a voice in decision making?
• Future-focused, balancing aspiration with pragmatism: Do you work towards a vision? Are your decisions informed by the realities of the external environment?

Do you have an aha! moment to share? Join one of the SCUP member-only listservs and share your story, ask a question, or simply just tell your friends you’re out there. Start connecting now!

Important Dates

• Early-bird pricing ends June 1.

Program

Registration

Special Group Membership Discount: If you work at a college or university that holds a SCUP group membership anyone from your institution can attend this event at the member rate.

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Conference Options

One price gets you BOTH live access and the recordings!

Note: All session recordings will be available 2 business days following the live session, for registered attendees.

Deadlines

*Cancellations must be made in writing and may be submitted by email to your registration team registration@scup.org by 6/28/2021. Refunds are subject to a processing fee – 10% of the total purchase. No-shows are not eligible for a refund, and funds committed by purchase order must be paid in full by the first day of the event. Refunds will be issued within 30 days of received written notification.

Scholarship

Award

Complimentary Registration

Scholarships will cover the cost of registration. Preference will be given to SCUP members.

2 Simple Steps to Apply

On the application form, you will be asked to provide the following information:

• Basic contact information
• Demonstrate financial need and explain desired benefits from attendance

Application Deadline

Monday, June 14, 2021, at 12:00 PM Eastern

Notification of Selection

Scholarship applicants will be notified of award status by Monday, June 21, 2021.

Apply Today