Planning Institute
Hands-on workshops to build unified, impactful plans that drive real change on campus.
Strengthen Your Integrated Planning Expertise
The SCUP Planning Institute equips you with the skills and methods to lead a successful planning effort. Whether you attend a public session or bring the institute to your campus, you’ll gain deep insights into uniting your department, key stakeholders, or the entire institution around a common framework to build a culture of integrated planning.
Move from Goals to Implementation
How the SCUP Planning Institute Can Help
Actionable Learning
Deep dive into essential topics like stakeholder engagement, developing goals, and measuring outcomes. You’ll walk away with real-world strategies and tools.
Timely Scenarios
Dig into planning scenarios reflecting the pressing issues institutions are navigating in the current higher education environment.
Collaborative Exercises
Build your capacity for planning through exercises that emphasize collaboration and maximize opportunities for peer-to-peer learning.
Proven Institutional Highlights
Discover how other institutions are tackling today’s challenges and achieving success using integrated planning
Lead With Confidence
Explore flexible options to participate—join a scheduled session or host the Planning Institute on your campus.
Foundations
Laying the Groundwork for Strategic Planning
We’re here to help those who are:
- Trying to design a planning process that works for their institution’s unique culture and structure
- In need of guidance when it comes to identifying and engaging stakeholders
- Analyzing institutional culture and operations in an effort to find a better path forward
- Aiming to create a plan that differentiates your institution based on its strengths and its role in the world around it
Design
Developing and Implementing a Strategic Plan
We’re here to help those who:
- Have their planning framework established
- Need help developing measurable goals, strategies and actions
- Might struggle with implementation
Sustain
Building and Sustaining an Integrated Planning Culture
We’re here to help those who:
- Already have an integrated planning process
- Face persistent challenges or resistance to the planning process
- Want their institution to be ready for an unclear future
On Campus Planning Institute
Bring the SCUP Planning Institute to your campus and build a culture of planning.
We’re here to help those who want to:
- Create a collaborative planning culture on campus.
- Give leadership the tools they need to communication across departments and build awareness of their external environment.
- Involve all of the appropriate stakeholders without travel cost and time.
- Remove the unnecessary stress of travel.
Learn more about bringing any of the Planning Institute workshops to your campus.
Want The Membership Discount?
Access key tools, resources, and a network of higher education professionals. With SCUP membership, enjoy planning journals, member-only discussions, and event discounts to achieve your goals.
Have Questions?
Josh Humbel
Director, Learning Programs