SCUP
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Instituting a New Degree Program

A Case Study of University Planning
Journal Cover
From Volume 45 Number 4 | July–September 2017
By Robert H. Beach, Ronald Lindahl
Planning Types: Academic Planning

The past two decades have seen great social change and both massive consolidation and expansion of institutions of higher education, clearly presenting circumstances warranting the use of formal approaches to planning. Varying planning theories, past failures and successes, and differing circumstances have generated several partially contrasting planning models to guide organizational change. Therefore, institutions of higher education have a variety of such approaches from which to choose. This article presents a case study illustrating the use of several approaches to planning that is distinctive because it relies heavily upon experience-based planning, examples of which are unfortunately lacking in the literature base.

MEMBERS ONLY
Attention Members: to access this item.Not a member? Join now to access this article and all journal articles for free.