Cleveland is where you want to be in July 2023!

Find integrated planning strategies that are breaking down silos and creating sustainable solutions.

Leaders from across the country and across the campus will come together to share their best integrated planning strategies – leading the way to a path of student success and a bright future for higher education. We want you to be part of it!

Help lead your commmunity.

It’s time to share your planning strategy that is changing the way departments, institutions, and communities are breaking down silos, working together, and creating solutions around higher education challenges!

Learn more about submitting a proposal

Deadline: Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 11:59 PM Eastern

Important Dates:
Early February – Registration opens
Early February – Conference scholarship opens

Hotel Information

Conference Hotels

Note: Hotel registration links will be available in early February 2023.

Room Rates

Hilton Cleveland Downtown (Headquarters Hotel) $229 Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center $217 Note: Prices do not reflect local taxes and fees.

About the Hotels

Travel Information

Coming soon.

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.

Example Proposal

Other Questions You Will Need to Answer

• Session Presenter(s): Identify your session’s presenter(s)
• 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

• • 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 closes Tuesday, December 6, 2022, at 11:59 PM EST.

Submit Your Proposal