Call for Proposals

Submission Deadline: October 1, 2017

Share your knowledge. Help your peers. Cross boundaries. Present in Nashville.

✔ How have you created positive change in your institution?
✔ What’s next for higher education?

We want your proposal for a session on integrated planning!

WHAT IS INTEGRATED PLANNING?

Integrated planning is a sustainable approach to planning that builds relationships, aligns the organization, and emphasizes preparedness for change.

Integrated planning engages all sectors of the academy—academic affairs, student affairs, business and finance, campus planning, information technology, communications, and development. It involves all stakeholders—faculty, students, staff, alumni, and external partners.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT 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:

Student Success

  • Academic and curricular planning
  • Integrated student success initiatives
  • New pedagogies and designing learning spaces to support them
  • Student wellness and health

Change Management

  • Successful change stories
  • Guiding people through change
  • Mitigating higher education politics

Communication and Engagement

  • How to effectively communicate: message, mode, and frequency
  • Engaging faculty in the planning process
  • Inclusivity, diversity, and underrepresented populations

Implementation

  • Implementation processes that work
  • Revising the strategic plan
  • Unit-level planning
  • Managing institutional complexity

Preparing for the Future

  • Higher education’s value proposition
  • Resiliency
  • Strategic enrollment management (SEM)
  • Institutional evolution

Planning Processes and How Tos

  • Tools for plan implementation and measurement
  • Integrating your planning processes
  • Planning “on the fly”

Managing Your Resources

  • Budget models
  • Managing space (and its politics)
  • Technology planning
  • Deferred maintenance

Using Data

  • Analyzing and communicating data
  • Evidence-based design
  • Using metrics
  • Assessment

The New Funding Environment

  • Innovative business models
  • Public-private partnerships

Proposal Types

Concurrent Sessions
Workshops