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Share Your Expertise

SCUP is where ideas, strategies, and people come together to create integrated planning solutions. Through the expertise and knowledge shared by the SCUP community, institutions are leading the way and building a solid future for higher education.

Be a part of the solutions! Learn how you can share your research, knowledge, and lessons learned with the community.

What We’re Looking For

We seek content that supports and showcases integrated planning practices within higher education. Our community finds value in actionable advice, how-to’s, tools, frameworks, and lessons learned.

Some hallmarks of integrated planning:

  • Future-focused and mission-driven: How do you use planning to help your institution fulfill its mission and prepare for the future?
  • Stakeholder engagement: How are stakeholders strategically and intentionally engaged during planning and implementation?
  • Alignment up, down, and 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?
  • Informed by internal and external factors: Are your decisions informed by the realities of the external environment? The internal environment?
  • Cyclical and adaptive: How do you link planning, resource allocation, implementation, and assessment? How do you adapt and adjust plans?

Write for SCUP

Journal Articles

Have an idea for an article for SCUP’s Planning for Higher Education Journal?
Read the guidelines for how to submit, or reach out with your questions.

Other Publications

Are you an author interested in writing something longer or shorter? Or a publisher who wants to discuss distribution?
Reach out with your idea.

Browse all of SCUP’s learning resources.

Contribute to
Original Research

Original Research

Have an idea for authoring original research related to higher education challenges or integrated planning? Interested in partnering with SCUP on research that will advance the field and serve our community?
Learn about SCUP’s approach to research or reach out about your ideas.

Present
at a SCUP Event

Conferences

SCUP has six multi-day conferences a year. Most of the content for these conferences is selected using a peer-reviewed proposal process. Submitting a proposal for a conference session is a great way to share your knowledge with your peers.

Conference Call for Proposals

2026 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference | April 20-22 (opens Sept 9; closes Oct 14)
2026 North Atlantic Regional Conference | March 8-10 (opens Sept 9; closes Oct 14)
2026 Pacific Regional Conference | Date Coming Soon (opens Sept 23; closes Oct 28)

2026 Annual Conference (opens Oct 21; closes Dec 2)

Webinars

Interested in presenting a webinar?
Reach out to the team.

Symposia

Have an idea for a face-to-face symposium or one-day event?
Reach out to share your idea.

Browse SCUP’s events calendar.

Speaking Resources

These resources and links will help you prepare for presentation success!

If you have questions not answered in these pages, please reach out.

FAQ About Presenting

Learn more about presenting at SCUP.