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Adaptable Plans

Blog Post

‘Holistic and Flexible Campus Planning’ in Action
Conference Recordings

A Mountain Climber’s Guide to Scrambling Through Change

 This session will discuss how to take key climbing skills—assessing a changing environment and determining which tools, resources, and expertise are needed to manage change—and apply them to higher education.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A New Campus Planning Paradigm Emerges . . .

 By reviewing campus plans and interviewing senior planners and administrators, the authors examined how 11 public universities in the Northeast and Midwest are responding to growing financial, pedagogical, and facilities risks.
Tool

Campus Contingency Planner

 This tool is a template for lightweight, rapid contingency planning. It guides you through a process that identifies the impacts of change, how decisions during contingency planning will be made, and the operational components of programs and offerings that will need to be adapted in response.
Webinar Recordings

Creating a More Adaptive Institution in the Wake of COVID-19

 This interactive panel discussion will bring together different institutions’ perspectives from facilities, technology, student services, and finance to understand the impact of COVID-19 on institutions and their student experience. The discussion will be organized in three parts, each with a prompt to inform the discussion, a poll to take the pulse of the audience, and an open discussion among panelists.
Webinar Recordings

Destination 2030
Conference Presentations

How to Create a Flexible, Holistic Campus Master Plan

 Developing a flexible master plan is critical for keeping up with the pace of education, increasing enrollment, and improving the surrounding community.
Conference Recordings

Howard Forward

 Come learn from Howard Forward, Howard University's targeted campus planning effort, how you can apply strategies from our focused campus planning to positively impact your institution's short and long-term resilience.
Conference Presentations

Keep Focus: Improve Outcomes and Engagement With a Communications Calendar

 Focusing on a specific goal each month increases strategic plan success.
Conference Recordings

Pivot! Planning During a Pandemic and Staying on Course

 In this session, we'll share best practices and lessons learned in virtually adapting the cycle of planning and budgeting processes to an uncertain, volatile, and virtual environment.
Conference Presentations

Planning and Leading Through Positive Turbulence: Kean’s Pursuit of R2 Status

 In order to meet the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education's requirements for an R2 Research Institution designation, Kean University created the University Planning Council (UPC), an inclusive university-wide body with representatives from every constituency within the university community.
Conference Recordings

Post-Pandemic Pivots

 In this session, we’ll explore how to step back from moments of crisis and see them in perspective, as moments also brimming with opportunity to regroup, rethink our strategies and refocus our resources to lead.
Conference Recordings

President’s Panel

 In this session, three college and university presidents from the United States, Canada, and Europe will reflect on how we can transform and reimagine higher education for the future.
Conference Recordings

Strategic Plan Implementation in a VUCA Environment

 In this session, we'll share how Lakehead University developed a phased strategic approach to guide implementation of its strategic plan.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Teetering on the Demographic Cliff, Part 3

 Higher education has faced major changes for some time—COVID-19 accelerated that volatility—and now we’re anticipating the demographic downslope in student enrollment. How and when should institutions mobilize for the difficult work of planning in the face of wrenching change?
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Tell Us What You Think

 More than 1,600 students and alumnae provided input through online mapping tools and in-person workshops. Staff and faculty were interviewed in person and via phone. And Instagram was used to reach 6,400 members of the campus community.
Conference Recordings

The Paradigm Shift for Higher Education

 Join us to discuss the postsecondary education paradigm shift and its potential impact on our educational infrastructure, ecosystem, and role.
Webinar Recordings

Transform Existing Planning and Implementation Processes

 Join us as a panel of experienced leaders provide an overview of a systematic approach for getting started on transformation.
Blog Post

What Is a Bridge Plan?

 A bridge plan allows a college or university to continue to pursue defined strategic pathways during times of uncertainty or rapid, unpredictable change. It’s also a good solution for when faculty and staff are overwhelmed due to a highly volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment.
Conference Presentations

What’s In It For Me? The Benefits of Data Asset Management

 Data is a pillar for organizational mission and for driving results. Planners must not undervalue the importance of data-informed decision-making and its link to institutional wellbeing and sustainability. Montgomery College's (MC) integrated planning incorporated robust community input that culminated into a successfully built plan that supports agility and flexibility.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Why Strategic Plans Aren’t Working in Uncertain Times

 The author’s approach to his research-based Strategic Planning in Uncertain Times Fieldbook began with a sampling review of 50 strategic plans. What emerged was the development of an organizational learning cycle used as a template to assess the effectiveness of strategic plans on more than 250 college and university websites.