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SHOW: All Sessions Workshops Tours Planning Institute WorkshopsFriday, July 28, 20238:00 am - 5:00 pmOptional Workshop: SCUP Planning Institute: FoundationsLaying the Groundwork for Strategic Planning
The Foundations workshop is part of the SCUP Planning Institute Model.
Many strategic planning models don’t work in higher education because they’re not designed for higher education. Strategic planning processes designed for corporations or non-profits don’t account for higher education’s complex environment and the unique challenges it faces.
The SCUP Integrated Planning Model is different. It has been developed exclusively for higher education. Our model will help individuals, teams, and institutions solve their thorniest problems. When you use the SCUP Integrated Planning model, you will get an accurate picture of your external environment, ask hard but necessary questions, and build actionable plans. The result? You’ll do more than implement a strategic plan. You’ll foster a campus-wide culture of institutional planning that is future-proof and sustainable.
This workshop guides you through the foundations of the SCUP Integrated Planning Model. After each workshop, you will go back to your campus with tangible takeaways and tools that you can use to grapple with practical problems.
Learning Outcomes
- Assess your institution’s readiness for change so you can remove change inhibitors and pave a pathway to success.
- Identify and analyze stakeholders for your institution’s planning efforts, convince necessary stakeholders to adopt integrated planning practices at your institution, and create a communication plan that ensures a transparent and inclusive planning process.
- Analyze your institution’s internal and external environment, including global forces and trends, internal mandates, and competitors.
- Adapt integrated planning to your institution’s unique situation.
No AIA or AICP credit is offered for the workshop.
Note: Workshop only registration is available.
Saturday, July 29, 20238:00 am - 5:00 pmOptional Workshop: SCUP Planning Institute: Design (Day 1 of 2)Developing and Implementing a Strategic Plan
The Design workshop is part of the SCUP Planning Institute Model.
Once you’ve determined your institution’s direction, it’s time to get specific (develop and implement a strategic plan).
Based on best practices, the Planning Institute Workshop will give you the tools to help you build a strategic plan, create alignment and action plans, and prepare to implement and evaluate your plan.
The Planning Institute can help those who:
- Have a planning framework established
- Have written the plan but don’t know how to diffuse it into the rest of the institution
- Might struggle with implementation
Planning Institute Workshop Details
There is a stereotype about strategic planning—it only creates plans that sit on the shelf, collecting dust. But plans that are created without building bridges across boundaries are doomed to fail.
The SCUP Integrated Planning Model will help you develop the skills to lead your institution in an integrated strategic plan process that leads to putting that plan into action.
How? By using a process that is participatory, robust, and sustainable. You will identify who you need to succeed and work with them. You will articulate goals that are relevant, translate those goals into assigned actions, and be ready to adjust those goals when inevitable changes happen.
This workshop gives you the framework to develop, implement, and sustain your integrated plan. You will return to your institution with tools, techniques, and skills you can use to leverage your institution’s complex operating environment for change.
Learning Outcomes
- Assess your institution’s resources and culture so you create a strategic plan that can be implemented.
- Identify strategic issues that must be addressed and map strategies and tactics to address those issues.
- Align plans both vertically with the overall strategic plan and horizontally with other unit plans so the entire institution works together towards goals.
- Implement your plan and prepare for common implementation challenges.
No AIA or AICP credit is offered for the workshop.
Sunday, July 30, 20237:30 am - 5:00 pmConference Registration8:00 am - 5:00 pmExhibitor Setup8:00 am - 5:00 pmOptional Workshop: SCUP Planning Institute: Design (Day 2 of 2)Developing and Implementing a Strategic Plan
The Design workshop is part of the SCUP Planning Institute Model.
Once you’ve determined your institution’s direction, it’s time to get specific (develop and implement a strategic plan).
Based on best practices, the Planning Institute Workshop will give you the tools to help you build a strategic plan, create alignment and action plans, and prepare to implement and evaluate your plan.
The Planning Institute can help those who:
- Have a planning framework established
- Have written the plan but don’t know how to diffuse it into the rest of the institution
- Might struggle with implementation
Planning Institute Workshop Details
There is a stereotype about strategic planning—it only creates plans that sit on the shelf, collecting dust. But plans that are created without building bridges across boundaries are doomed to fail.
The SCUP Integrated Planning Model will help you develop the skills to lead your institution in an integrated strategic plan process that leads to putting that plan into action.
How? By using a process that is participatory, robust, and sustainable. You will identify who you need to succeed and work with them. You will articulate goals that are relevant, translate those goals into assigned actions, and be ready to adjust those goals when inevitable changes happen.
This workshop gives you the framework to develop, implement, and sustain your integrated plan. You will return to your institution with tools, techniques, and skills you can use to leverage your institution’s complex operating environment for change.
Learning Outcomes
- Assess your institution’s resources and culture so you create a strategic plan that can be implemented.
- Identify strategic issues that must be addressed and map strategies and tactics to address those issues.
- Align plans both vertically with the overall strategic plan and horizontally with other unit plans so the entire institution works together towards goals.
- Implement your plan and prepare for common implementation challenges.
No AIA or AICP credit is offered for the workshop.
1:00 pm - 3:30 pmOptional Tour: CASE Western University - South Residential VillageAs with many universities, Case Western Reserve University struggles with the “Sophomore Slump”. It is in the second year that students are most likely to drop out. To combat the “Slump”, Case Western Reserve University decided to create the South Residential Village (SRV), a center of gravity for second year students who are currently scattered across the urban campus. The project was started pre-Covid and the project was put on hold. When the project resumed in 2021, escalation and supply chain issues impacted the project and its schedule.
CWRU and the Design team developed a program and plan layout to support community building at multiple scales – the pod, the floor, the building and the district. The South Residential Village will house 600 students and provides amenities – a multi-purpose room to host campus wide events, a wellness center, and several programmed exterior spaces so the Sophomores would have a campus center of gravity and place to call their own. The project is tracking LEED Gold.
The Case Western Reserve University – South Residential Village Tour will consist of a presentation highlighting the vision and goals of the University for the project, summary of the programming and design phase, and conclude with the tour of the construction site.
By late July 2023, tour participants will see the completed framing and large portions of the envelope and glazing installed. The completed large scale visual and construction mock up will be on site. One of the typical room mock ups will be available to view and discuss with the group.
Cost: $60
3:00 pm - 4:30 pmThe SCUP Experience - Coming Together!4:45 pm - 6:00 pmOpening Keynote6:00 pm - 7:30 pmWelcome ReceptionMonday, July 31, 20237:30 am - 4:00 pmConference Registration8:30 am - 10:30 amOptional Tour: Cuyahoga Community College West Campus STEM CenterThe tour will begin with a walk through the Student Commons – the heart of the building that also serves as a new primary campus entry from the north parking lots. Here students, faculty, and staff enjoy an atrium daylit though a 100-foot-long, building-integrated photovoltaic skylight; green walls; planter benches, and a wide variety of study spaces suitable for small groups, collaborative, or quiet study. Teaching spaces accessed from the Commons include an Interdisciplinary Teaching Lab and Case Study classroom.
The tour continues with stops in variety of teaching labs including Chemistry, Biology, Earth Sciences, Physics, and Mathematics. Exiting the building from its signature parallelogram east façade stairway, the outdoor classroom will be visited. It is a landscaped space featuring flood-resistant native plantings and seating space designed for outdoor lectures and social gatherings. However, the space is more than a teaching space, it is designed to manage the building’s stormwater – it transforms into a reflecting pool following heavy rain storm events.
Next on the tour, the exterior of the building of the building will be explored. Attendees will understand how the building’s simple rectangular footprint optimizes solar orientation while maximizing the ratio of building envelope to enclosed volume. They will see how a responsible 33% window-to-wall ratio provides natural daylighting while reducing operational energy demands. While every façade shares a common design language, solar orientation differentiates the design of each. Baguettes shade southern glazing, micro-louver screens eliminate glare and mitigate heat gain on east-facing windows, and reflective vertical fins at north-facing windows bounce morning sun into the labs. The PV-ready roof canopy that hovers over three sides of the building effectively shades the building’s upper story while bestowing a distinctive look recalling Prairie-style architecture of the Midwest.
The tour will end at the building’s Sustainability Dashboard where green features of the building are summarized as well as displaying real-time energy, water, and CO2 metrics. Achieving the goal of 70% lower energy use than the national average of buildings of this type and meeting the AIA 2030 Commitment, the building has a EUI of only 74.36 kBtu/sf/year.
Cost: $60
8:30 am - 9:30 amConcurrent Sessions9:50 am - 10:50 amConcurrent Sessions11:10 am - 12:10 pmConcurrent Sessions12:10 pm - 1:30 pmLunch (in the SCUP Commons)1:30 pm - 2:30 pmConcurrent Sessions2:45 pm - 4:45 pmOptional Tour: Rediscovering Cleveland’s WaterfrontsJoin planning and architecture professionals from the City of Cleveland and the Greater Cleveland Partnership, the region’s chamber of commerce, on an interactive tour of Cleveland’s downtown waterfronts: Lake Erie and the Cuyahoga River. Water is critical to the economy, climate, and quality of life of Northeast Ohioans, yet, for too long, we have turned our back on the region’s greatest asset.
Under new leadership and renewed partnerships, we are rediscovering our waterfronts and their potential. We know that embracing these assets appeals to the next generation of Clevelanders, and by investing now, we can achieve population growth by attracting and retaining talent to secure Cleveland’s future.
Learn how the City’s vision to reconnect the community to its waterfronts will spur population growth, catalyze significant economic opportunity, and benefit the entire region. During this mobile workshop, participants will learn how the prioritization of inclusive redevelopment and significant infrastructure changes that create a transportation network of ‘people over cars’ will enhance Cleveland’s ability to be a great region on a Great Lake.
The walking tour will begin on Daniel Burnham’s Mall C, designed in 1903 and one of the best remaining examples of the City Beautiful movement. The tour will proceed down E.9th Street to North Coast Harbor, home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Browns. The walking tour will end at Nuevo Modern, where attendees are invited to sip margaritas overlooking Lake Erie. An optional bicycle tour will begin from North Coast Harbor in lieu of the happy hour. Participants will ride to the East Bank of the Flats and to Rivergate Park, along a section of towpath along the Cuyahoga River, with the option to end at Brick and Barrel, a local brewery.
Note: This tour will be followed by an optional bike tour limited to 15 people.
Cost: $40
2:50 pm - 3:50 pmConcurrent Sessions4:00 pm - 5:30 pmSocial (in the SCUP Commons)4:30 pm - 6:30 pmOptional Tour: Playhouse Square: Restored Theater District becomes Hub for Arts, Entertainment, and EducationPlayhouse Square is the largest performing arts center outside of New York City and home to multiple professional theaters, resident arts organizations, restaurants, businesses, and educational partnerships. A remarkable group of 1920s theaters were saved from demolition and redeveloped over 40 years to create a vibrant arts and entertainment district where a once-deserted downtown area existed. Now the world’s largest theater restoration project and Playhouse Square contributes more than $360 million to the local economy annually. This tour will explore the economic development of Playhouse Square, the renovated historic theaters, and the spaces shared with Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, and Case Western Reserve University.
Cost: $60
Tuesday, August 1, 20237:30 am - 4:30 pmConference Registration8:30 am - 9:30 amConcurrent Sessions8:30 am - 10:30 amOptional Tour: Cuyahoga Community College Westshore CampusThe Liberal Arts & Technology Building is the College’s first expansion of the Westshore Campus. The goals of the project were multi-faceted as the College sought to better serve their growing demographic in western Cuyahoga county.
- To enhance the exterior built environment of the new campus, to be more cohesive and pedestrian focused.
- To improve the quality of public spaces
- To expand the campus’ capacity to meet growing demand. More classrooms and more offices, of course, but even more-so an accommodation for an expanded course offering: more types of classes and spaces for engineering technology, a maker-lab and computer labs.
- To provide an on-campus dining option
- To help accommodate and define future campus expansion
The form of the building is informed by all of these factors. The initial program assessment revealed that due to the desired adjacencies, more square footage should be developed on the two upper floors. These are then supported below by a smaller first floor footprint.
Covered pedestrian-oriented exterior spaces have been carved out on the ground floor level, and the building is curved to define and enclose an outdoor, pedestrian-only zone to the north. This will serve as the “public square” as the campus further expands.
The new building projects to house some of the necessary functions that will be inherent with further campus expansion, including enlarged security offices, expanded facility maintenance office, shipping and receiving, and shared faculty space.
With respect to energy efficiency, the new building has an effective <40% window area and higher performance envelope. The HVAC system also is partially combined with that of the existing building, to economize latent heating and cooling capacity while offering some level of redundancy. Natural daylight harvesting is improved with horizontal exterior louvers reflecting daylight deeper into the spaces, even as they provide shade and work with patterned glass to reduce glare. These efficiencies and more help the College in its goal to achieve LEED Silver.
Overall, the results for the campus have been an enhanced experience for staff, faculty and student body, as the College seeks to serve Cuyahoga County through enhanced workforce training and preparedness.
Design provided by Moody Nolan
Cost: $60
9:50 am - 10:50 amConcurrent Sessions11:10 am - 12:10 pmConcurrent Sessions12:10 am - 1:30 pmLunch (in the SCUP Commons)12:50 pm - 2:40 pmOptional Tour: Cleveland State UniversityJoin Cleveland State University staff and Sasaki’s campus planning team for a tour that will showcase the newly released Master Plan’s vision for a connected urban campus and open space network. The tour will begin in the heart of campus, the Student Center and its outdoor plaza. With an eye to downtown Cleveland, we’ll view the proposed plaza expansion made possible by removing a parking garage and creating an elevated plaza over E 21st Street. We’ll discuss how the Master Plan advances the university as a city and regional economic engine through the addition of a new workforce development building on Euclid Avenue. Attendees will get a chance to walk a portion of the university’s Innerlink, a connected interior pathway through a series of core buildings, while hearing about renovations and new construction for academic, athletic and residential buildings. The tour is scheduled to end at our newest campus building, the Washkewicz College of Engineering where you’ll get a glimpse of collaborative laboratories and classrooms built to LEED Gold standards. Time permitting, we’ll pop into Mather Mansion, one of the few remaining homes from Cleveland’s famous Millionaires’ Row. Completed in 1910, the 45-room Mather Mansion was the largest and most luxurious home built on Euclid Avenue with handcrafted stone, brick and stunning woodwork.
Cost: $60
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmConcurrent Sessions2:50 pm - 3:50 pmConcurrent Sessions4:15 pm - 5:30 pmClosing Keynote6:30 pm - 8:00 pmClosing Reception (Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)Wednesday, August 2, 20238:00 am - 5:00 pmOptional Workshop: SCUP Planning Institute: Sustain (Day 1 of 2)Build and Sustain an Integrated Planning Culture
The Sustain workshop is part of the SCUP Planning Institute Model.
Integrating planning doesn’t end with the plan itself. We want to help you build an institution that embodies planning. You’ll learn tools and practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and constantly look toward the future. SCUP provides expertise, direction, and the inspiration to nurture a culture of integrated planning on your campus.
The Planning Institute can help those who:
Already have an integrated planning process
Face persistent challenges or resistance that the planning process can’t address
Want their institution to be ready for an unclear futurePlanning Institute Workshop Details
The planning process can only do so much to drive change in your institution. What if your institution’s culture prevents change and growth?
In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage your institutional culture to leverage and manage change. As you know, any planning effort is designed to change the institution in a meaningful way, poised for success and nimble to adapt to a volatile environment. Here you will gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of an integrated planning culture—the practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and look to the future.
You will return to your institution with tools, techniques, and skills you can use to help clarify decision-making at your institution so new ideas can move forward; use boundary-spanning practices to encourage silos to work together; manage difference and conflict, and; prepare for the future with scenario planning.
You have your plan; now it’s time to build a sustainable culture that is forward-looking, proactive, and poised for success.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and adopt tools, methods, and actions that build an integrated planning culture.
- Anticipate challenges and opportunities in a dynamic and unpredictable world so your institution acts more than it reacts.
- Examine and improve power and decision-making structures within your institution.
- Help stakeholders set aside differences and work together across boundaries to achieve your institution’s goals.
No AIA or AICP credit is offered for the workshop.
8:30 am - 12:30 pmOptional Tour: Kent State University and the Process of MemorializingOn May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of demonstrators and onlookers at Kent State University. Four were killed and 9 were wounded. While touring campus and the site upon which the demonstration occurred, participants will learn the tragedy and its aftermath, particularly as it affected campus planning and space utilization.
The story of Kent State is one of national and state-level politics, frayed town and gown relations, changing cultural norms, and students clamoring for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. In the wake of the tragedy, administrators struggled to situate Kent State’s newfound status as an icon of state-sponsored violence. Further, the university struggled to determine the both the extent to which and how it would acknowledge and memorialize the tragedy.
The May 4 Memorial was dedicated on May 4, 1990—20 years after the tragedy. Participants will learn of the numerous controversies that plagued the memorializing process, starting with the decision to build a central memorial and moving through the 1986 design competition, university fundraising efforts, and the administration’s decision to build a scaled-back version of the winning design when it failed to raise enough money to build the original winner. Revisiting this contentious history enables us to consider how memorial making reflects divergent opinions among various stakeholders and how memorial making might be placed in the service of promoting nonviolence and social justice. Participants will also learn about how Kent State improved its town and gown relations between 1970 and 2020—a time in which the university partnered with the city of Kent to engage in a building project that connected the campus formally to the city.
Cost: $60
Thursday, August 3, 20238:00 am - 5:00 pmOptional Workshop: SCUP Planning Institute: Sustain (Day 2 of 2)Build and Sustain an Integrated Planning Culture
The Sustain workshop is part of the SCUP Planning Institute Model.
Integrating planning doesn’t end with the plan itself. We want to help you build an institution that embodies planning. You’ll learn tools and practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and constantly look toward the future. SCUP provides expertise, direction, and the inspiration to nurture a culture of integrated planning on your campus.
The Planning Institute can help those who:
Already have an integrated planning process
Face persistent challenges or resistance that the planning process can’t address
Want their institution to be ready for an unclear futurePlanning Institute Workshop Details
The planning process can only do so much to drive change in your institution. What if your institution’s culture prevents change and growth?
In this workshop, you will learn how to leverage your institutional culture to leverage and manage change. As you know, any planning effort is designed to change the institution in a meaningful way, poised for success and nimble to adapt to a volatile environment. Here you will gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of an integrated planning culture—the practices that encourage stakeholders to collaborate, act strategically, and look to the future.
You will return to your institution with tools, techniques, and skills you can use to help clarify decision-making at your institution so new ideas can move forward; use boundary-spanning practices to encourage silos to work together; manage difference and conflict, and; prepare for the future with scenario planning.
You have your plan; now it’s time to build a sustainable culture that is forward-looking, proactive, and poised for success.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and adopt tools, methods, and actions that build an integrated planning culture.
- Anticipate challenges and opportunities in a dynamic and unpredictable world so your institution acts more than it reacts.
- Examine and improve power and decision-making structures within your institution.
- Help stakeholders set aside differences and work together across boundaries to achieve your institution’s goals.
No AIA or AICP credit is offered for the workshop.
Registration
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SCUP 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 and any SCUP event at the member rate.Share SCUP 2023 with a colleague.
When you register for the full conference*, you can invite as many colleagues from your firm or institution to join you for a special discount ($825 full conference; $540 for one-day registration). This offer is valid for anyone who hasn’t attended a SCUP event in the past (this includes the planning institute workshops, annual conferences, or regional conferences). Share this form with your colleagues to register.
*Your registration must be at the full conference rate – no discounts other than the early-bird pricing can apply. Note: This rate must be used at time of initial purchase.Not a member? Now is the perfect time to join! Save 20% off a new individual membership using coupon code: Save20Mbr and $500 on your full conference registration by being a member. Join now.
Offer ends September 30, 2023.Conference Options
Note: Full conference does not include optional workshops.
Full Conference Don’t forget to add a workshop or tour.Early-Bird
Pricing (ended 5/1)Regular
PricingMember $945 $1145 Non-member (Join now to save $500) $1445 $1645 Student
(Nonmember students must send a copy of their transcript to registration@scup.org.)$545 $545 Retired $545 $545 Monday Only Includes access to the Sunday night reception.Pricing Member $600 Non-Member (Join now to save $225) $825 Tuesday Only Pricing Member $600 Non-Member (Join now to save $225) $825 Workshop Only
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Register for 2 or 3 of the Planning Institute workshops below and receive 10% off each workshop.Additional 20% Discount!
Register 3 or more from your institution and you’ll each receive 20% off your workshop registrations.Contact registration@scup.org to process your registration and receive the discount.
SCUP Planning Institute: Foundations
Laying the Groundwork for Strategic Planning
One-day workshop – 7/28Pricing Member $400 Non-member $575 SCUP Planning Institute: Design
Developing and Implementing a Strategic Plan
Two-day workshop – 7/29 and 7/30Pricing Member $1325 Non-member (Join now to save $575) $1900 SCUP Planning Institute: Sustain
Building and Sustaining an Integrated Planning Culture
Two-day workshop – 8/2 and 8/3Pricing Member $1325 Non-member (Join now to save $575) $1900 Tours
Registration for the full conference or single-day is required to register for a tour(s).
Single-day registration must match the day of the tour.Pricing [Sunday] CASE Western University – South Residential Village $60 [Monday] Cuyahoga Community College West Campus STEM Center $60 [Monday] Rediscovering Cleveland’s Waterfronts $40 [Monday] Playhouse Square: Restored Theater District becomes Hub for Arts, Entertainment, and Education $60 [Tuesday] Cuyahoga Community College Westshore Campus $60 [Tuesday] Cleveland State University $60 [Wednesday] Kent State University and the Process of Memorializing $60 Spouse/Partner Reception Ticket Pricing Sunday
Welcome Reception 6:00pm – 7:30pm$50 Tuesday
Closing Reception 6:30pm – 8:00pm$50 Deadlines Date Early-Bird Registration 5/1/2023 Cancellation 6/30/2023 Online Registration 7/26/2023 Cancellations must be made in writing and may be submitted by email to your registration team registration@scup.org by 6/30/2023. 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.
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Scholarship
The Society for College and University Planning recognizes that professional development and travel budgets are being reduced or cut at many institutions. We believe that during tough times it is more important than ever to invest in education and to reach out to colleagues to help find solutions. We offer a limited number of SCUP Annual Conference Scholarships to help underwrite costs associated with participating in SCUP events.
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Complimentary Registration (up to 5 awarded)Application Deadline
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Monday, April 17, 2023
Notification of Selection
Scholarship applicants will be notified of award status by Friday, April 21, 2023.Hotel Information
Event Location:
All program sessions will be held at the Cleveland Convention Center.Headquarter Hotel
Hilton Cleveland Downtown
100 Lakeside Avenue East
Cleveland, OH 44114
216.413.5000Rate: $229 USD Single/Double Occupancy*
Reservation Deadline: July 5, 2023Additional Hotel Option
Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center
1360 West Mall Drive
Cleveland, OH 44114
216.696.9200For GPS navigation use 1360 West Mall Drive as the address.
Reserve Your Room Online
Call reservations: 800.228.9290Rate: $217 USD Single/Double Occupancy*
Reservation Deadline: July 5, 2023*Room Rates
- Do not include applicable taxes and fees and subject to change without notice.
- Available three (3) days prior and post-conference dates.
- All reservation requests will require a credit card to guarantee the reservation. The credit card is only charged one-night lodging plus tax if the reservation is cancelled less than 72 hours prior to arrival, or there is a no-show.
- Name changes to room reservations may be made prior to arrival at no charge.
- Early Departure Fee: In the event a guest checks out prior to the guest’s reserved checkout date, the hotel will add an early checkout fee to that guest’s individual account, currently one-nights room rate & applicable tax. Guests wishing to avoid an early checkout fee should advise the hotel at or before check-in of any change in planned length of stay.
Travel Information
Airport
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE)
Airport Transportation
Public Transportation
The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) offers convenient service to and from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport. RTA’s Red Line was the first Rapid Transit service to an International Airport in North America! RTA’s Red Line provides regular service between CLE and downtown Cleveland via the Tower City Station. The trip takes less than 30 minutes and trains depart from CLE every 15 minutes for the majority of the day.RTA’s station at CLE is located on the lower level of the main terminal. To reach the RTA station, travelers should use the elevators or escalators located in the center of the ticketing and baggage claim levels.
Exit at Tower City Center, the hotels are located approximately 4 blocks north.
One-Way Fare $2.50
Taxis
Available at the South end of baggage claim
Shared Ride Services
Available for pick-up on either the arrivals or departures level.Call for Proposals
Deadline: Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 11:59 PM Eastern
Share your knowledge.
Help your peers.
Bring planning together.Present at SCUP 2023!
✔ How have you used integrated planning practices to create positive change?
✔ What’s next for higher education?We want your proposal for a session at our in-person 2023 conference in Cleveland, OH!
What is Integrated Planning?
Integrated planning is a sustainable approach to planning that builds relationships, aligns the organization, and emphasizes preparedness for change.
How can you tell if you’re doing integrated planning?
Some of the hallmarks of integrated planning:
- Cross-functional collaboration: Are people from different departments or functions discussing, deciding, and acting 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?
If you have actionable advice about how your peers can do the above, we want to share it!
Who Should Submit?
Anyone who practices integrated planning. Integrated planning engages all sectors of the academy:
- strategic planning
- academic affairs
- institutional effectiveness
- student affairs
- business and finance
- campus planning
- information technology
- communications, and
- development.
It involves stakeholders from across the campus:
- faculty
- students
- staff
- alumni, and
- external partners
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
By design, integrated planning is an inclusive practice that brings together perspectives and experiences from across an institution’s community to create solutions. This can only be accomplished when all voices are heard, recognized, and valued.
As you put together your presentation team, consider these questions:
- Whose perspective is missing?
- Whose voice is not being heard?
We strongly encourage you to make sure your presentation team includes diverse voices, and that these voices are given equitable time to share their perspectives.
What Makes a Great Conference Proposal?
Great proposals focus on one of two things: solutions or foresight.
Solutions: help attendees solve a pressing problem.
Foresight: explore innovative new ideas, analyze trends, and prepare attendees for the future.
All great proposals have the following:
Takeaways: give attendees next actions, tips, tools, processes, etc., that can be applied immediately.
Engagement: engage attendees with your content and with each other in meaningful ways.
Topic Ideas
We seek exceptional, well-developed proposals on topics related to integrated planning in higher education.
Proposals on the following integrated planning topics are especially welcome:
Preparing for the Future
- Higher education’s value proposition
- Resiliency
- Preparing for the demographic cliff
- Succession planning and staff retention
- Forecasting higher education’s long-term future
- Mitigating the climate crisis
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- Integrating DEI values, principles, and goals into day-to-day work across the institution
- Assessing and correcting structural racism at your institution
- Designing equitable planning practices and processes
Planning Processes and How Tos
- Integrated planning techniques and best practices
- Implementation processes that work
- Integrating your planning processes
- Planning during uncertainty and rapid change
- Streamlining strategic planning
- Prioritizing goals
- Departmental planning
Academic Planning
- Academic program planning
- Academic program review
- Linking the academic plan with strategic enrollment management
- New paradigms for teaching and learning
- Approaches to instructional design
Change Leadership and Change Management
- Leading culture or organizational change…quickly
- Engaging faculty in the planning process
- Preparing your college or university for an uncertain future
Design
- Creating space for community, both physically and remotely
- Design for hybrid learning and working
- Flexible environments
- Space use changes
Session Type
Note: For SCUP 2023, we are NOT accepting proposals for workshops.
Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent Session Quick Facts
- Sessions will be offered on Monday and Tuesday (July 31–August 1, 2023).
- Only 60-minute sessions are available – 90-minute sessions will NOT be available.
- Submissions must be made using SCUP’s online submission tool.
- Read other frequently asked questions.
Concurrent Session Proposal Questions
The proposal form doesn’t ask for an abstract, title, etc. Rather, it asks you specific questions about the content you are going to present. This gives session reviewers a clear understanding of what you plan to cover during your session.
Examples of active learning exercises you can include in your proposal.
View the questions included on Call for Proposals Form
Not sure how to answer these questions? Check out an example.
Other Questions You Will Need to Answer
- Session Presenter(s): Identify your session’s presenter(s), 4-presenter limit
- Presenter Biography, 150-word limit
- Room Set
- What type of room set would you prefer to best enhance participant learning in your session? We try to provide preferred room set requests, but cannot guarantee them
- Audio Visual Questions
- Will you show a video?
- Will you play a sound clip?
- Will you go online? If so, what will you do online?
After You Submit Your Proposal
How Proposals Are Reviewed
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- Concurrent session proposals are reviewed by your peers, active SCUP members who have attended past annual conferences. Reviews are based on attendee takeaways, topical relevance, and session organization.
Requirements If You Are Accepted
- Presenter Registration Requirement
All concurrent session presenters are required to register for the conference; presenters DO NOT receive free or discounted registration(s). - Use of Presentation Materials
Presentation materials such as slideshows and handouts from each accepted concurrent session may be shared on the SCUP Events mobile app for attendees to access during the conference. Following the conference, session recordings and presentation materials may be posted on the SCUP website to view and download. By participating as a concurrent session presenter, you agree to allow SCUP to share your content in this way.
QUESTIONS? Email speaker.information@scup.org.
The call for proposals closed Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 11:59 PM EST.