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Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Day-in-the-Life of a College Planner . . . in 2030

 The authors invite readers to join them on a journey into the future, five years ahead. Step into the shoes of a higher education planner in the year 2030 and see firsthand how transformative ideas might reshape your day and decisions.
Conference Presentations

AI Forward: Using AI Ethically and Effectively in Strategic Planning

 AI is transforming higher education planning. Discover how the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse integrated AI tools throughout its 2025–2030 strategic planning process to enhance efficiency, transparency, and engagement.
Conference Presentations

AI-Assisted Scenario Planning: A Human-Machine Partnership for Strategy Creation

 In today's volatile higher education landscape, scenario planning is essential, but often slow and resource-intensive. This session explored how generative AI can accelerate scenario development, enabling institutions to envision multiple futures, identify key uncertainties, and make mission-aligned decisions faster.
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Designing for the Unknown: A Framework for AV/IT in Emerging Space Typologies

 Drawing on thematic analysis of interviews with campus leaders, this panel explores how early AV/IT integration addresses the transformational pivot toward AI-enabled, adaptable space typologies like AI makerspaces. We will also detail infrastructure strategies (power, data, cooling) to future-proof spaces for unconceived AI tools.
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Harnessing the Disruptive Power of Collaborative Intelligence

 This session will illustrate how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Intelligence (HI) combine to create Collaborative Intelligence (CI), which will transform and disrupt every process and practice it touches. Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) is building on its track record of preparing students for the future by leveraging CI and a clean sheet design approach to create a revolutionary new instructional model.
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Integrated Planning Tools To Adapt Institutions For Digital, AI-Driven Learning

 Institutions are seeing rapid growth in online and hybrid learning, yet most planning models still assume a primarily physical student experience. This session explores how integrated planning can help universities anticipate and manage the academic, technological, and spatial shifts created by digital expansion.
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Managing Change While Moving Things Forward: An Institutional Response to Artificial Intelligence

 How do you provide a safe space for authentic and inclusive dialogue while addressing a contentious topic in higher education?
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Planners to Transformation Architects: Leading Integrated AI Strategy

 This session presents a practical roadmap for integrated AI strategy, illustrated through a Binghamton University case example and dialogue with participants about their campus initiatives.
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Planning the AI Pipeline: Attracting Students With Three Future-focused Projects

 Rapidly changing users and technology paired with long project timelines requires institutions to think ahead and implement innovative strategies for creating new, high-end engineering facilities.
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Smarter System by Design: Applying Generative AI in Assessment and Accreditation

 This session highlights how Binghamton University built a smarter, more connected system for assessment and accreditation by integrating generative AI into evidence synthesis, reflection, and reporting.
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Tell-Show-Do-Apply with AI: Support Integrated Planning with Historical Analysis

 This session will demonstrate how generative AI tools derive insights from historical planning documents through text analysis to generate pattern recognition, quantify trends, and identify activities to integrate sustainability into future planning cycles.
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Tomorrow Starts Today: Embrace Transformative GenAI & CI

 This session shows leaders and planners how to embrace generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and collaborative intelligence (CI) to address higher education's existential challenges and leap from experimentation to transformation by 2030.