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‘Holistic and Flexible Campus Planning’ in Action
Blog Post

‘Strategic Doing’
Planning for Higher Education Journal

“Menus That Matter” at the Heart of Kalamazoo Valley Community College’s Bronson Healthy Living Campus

 Culinary and food professionals can serve as positive change agents in society.
Example Plans

2023–29 Educational Master Plan Development Timeline

 This timeline highlights opportunities for community input to the educational master plan’s development.
Webinar Recordings

A Community College Perspective on Their Role in Future-Proofing Education

 Richard Fort from Johnson County Community College and James Pfeiffer from BNIM will share lessons learned from post-covid educational offerings and incorporating a diversity of spatial and programmatic options to facilitate workforce development.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Master Facilities Planning Process That Focuses on ROI

 In a time when public funding is decreasing, it is advantageous to develop capital improvement plans that demonstrate how to achieve maximum financial benefits.
Conference Presentations

A Multi-institutional Collaboration to Meet Healthcare Industry Workforce Needs

 Community colleges are seeing a decline in enrollment while the healthcare sector is experiencing a chronic workforce shortage.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A National Economic Case Statement for Community Colleges

 Now more than ever the role of postsecondary education is to cultivate the nation’s human capital.
Conference Presentations

A New Campus Model for Greater Community Impact and Connection

 Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) has transformed its college model to address crucial issues such as demographic changes, meeting the needs of non-traditional students, and empowering underserved populations.
Example Plans

Academic Master Plan 2014–2017
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Academic Master Plan Website 2020–2025

 Website for the institution's academic master planning process, offering information about purpose, process, and timeline.
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Academic Master Planning Process Flowchart

 Flowchart showing the process that the institution will undergo to develop its academic master plan.
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Academic Program Review Template 2018–2019

 Worksheet for performing academic program review.
Conference Presentations

Addressing the Demographic Cliff: Community College Perspectives

 Community colleges are facing enrollment declines and demographic shifts.
Conference Presentations

An Implementable Master Plan for Access, Student Success, and Sustainable Growth

 A state mandate to increase undergraduate enrollment, the aspiration to achieve an Association of American Universities institution profile, and a desire to become carbon neutral—we'll discuss how the University of California (UC) Riverside negotiated these competing challenges while developing its master plan.
Partner Content

An Intersection of College and Community: Transforming Unused Facilities Into Vibrant Learning Centers can be a Win-Win

 The American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) collaborated with SCUP for an article in this issue of Learning By Design. Read how Austin Community College repurposed facilities in an abandoned mall into a high-tech center for developmental math instruction.
Example Plans

Annual Planning Guide for Academic Affairs Offices/Programs

 This document provides an overview of the annual academic planning process at the college, with guidance on how to contribute.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Around the Water Cooler, Minus the Water Cooler

 More than 100 Muskegon Community College employees attend weekly, all-college meetings. These are essential touchpoints for communication, learning, and planning.
Conference Presentations

ASAP

 In this session, you will learn about CUNY's ASAP model, how it receives operating and capital funding, and how the physical spaces that support the program were identified, designed, and renovated.
Conference Presentations

Assessing Institutional Capacity for Mission-Fulfillment and Student Success
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Assessing the True Cost of Student Housing for Community Colleges

 A campus housing project can only truly be successful if it is in line with the strategic mission of the institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Baltimore

 This article is a profile of one institution—the new Inner Harbor campus of the Community College of Baltimore—that tried to share its facilities with commercial interests—and failed.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Work Force Rx
Conference Presentations

Bringing Industry, Education, and Non-Profits Together

 In this session, we will discuss the Construction Education Center, a state-of-the-art facility at Metropolitan Community College’s Fort Omaha campus, that facilitates project-based learning to bring industry partners, non-profits, and students together under a common vision.
Example Plans

Calendar to Develop Annual Plans & Budgets for the 2022–23 Academic Year

 The college recently redesigned its planning and budgeting process to strengthen alignment and improve communications. This calendar depicts the timeline for that process.
Conference Recordings

Campus Tour | H. Lavity Stoutt Community College

 This tour chronicles the development of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) into a locally-grounded tertiary institution with international aspirations.
Conference Recordings

Can a Campus Plan Drive Equity?

 Come find out how you can apply lessons learned and strategies from Wake Tech's inclusive master planning process to successfully respond to opportunities and challenges of diverse enrollment on your campus.
Webinar Recordings

Catapulting African-American Women to Degree Completion at Land-Grant HBCUs

 What factors support degree completion for African-American women students at Land-Grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU)? New research on African-American women's degree completion dives into the contributing factors that support these students and catapult them to the degree completion mark.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Community Colleges

 This is a reprint of a paper originally published on the Fulton-Montgomery Community College website in August 2013.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Converting the Community Colleges
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Crafting the Master Plan: A Collaborative Challenge for Community Colleges

 Master planning can help an institution address major challenges, but you have to know how to do it right. This article examines the planning process, with special emphasis on community and consensus building, using case studies from two rapidly growing community college districts in Texas and California.
Example Plans

Department/Unit Action Plan Sample

 A worksheet provided to units and departments by the office of institutional research (filled with sample data).
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Designing for STEM

 Community colleges are developing sophisticated simulation laboratories, makerspaces, and innovation centers to prepare students to successfully enter the STEM workforce and meet the needs of high-tech employers.
Conference Recordings

Developing Programs and Facilities for Next Generation Industry Leaders

 We'll illustrate how industry-academic partnerships led to the reimagining of vocational education in a new, didactic facility for construction sciences.
Conference Presentations

Educating the Next Generation of Industry Leaders

 This session will illustrate how industry-academic partnerships have led to the creation of cutting-edge, career-focused education that reimagines vocational training through a new, didactic construction sciences facility.
Conference Presentations

Educational Programs and Community Partnerships for Skilled Trades Pathways
Example Plans

Enrollment Management Plan 2020–2025

 The college’s enrollment management plan, which prioritizes student access and success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Ensuring Effective Governance
Conference Recordings

Entrepreneurial Planning

 Join this session for a facilitated, interactive journey with two college and university leaders that will explore the application of the effectuation model to college planning.
Conference Recordings

Equitable Cross-Disciplinary Planning for Underserved Populations

 Through the lens of two diverse community college districts, this session will investigate inclusive, interdisciplinary approaches to long-range campus and strategic planning.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Expanding College Completion

 It is important to ensure that our nation’s open-access colleges can operate at a level where they can provide seats at the higher education table for all who wish to attend.
Example Plans

Facilities Master Plan
Webinar Recordings

Facilities Planning for Community Colleges

 The planning team for Portland Community College will discuss lessons learned while practicing equity to create an inclusive Facilities Plan for Oregon’s largest higher education institution on thresholds of global, local, and institutional shifts.
Report

Fostering Innovation on Ohio’s Co-Located Campuses Through Collaborative Planning

 This is a SCUP Fellow Research Project Final Report for the 2018–2019 program. This research project investigates whether co-located institutions, specifically, and competing institutions of higher education, more generally, could use the concept of “collaborative planning” to achieve mutual success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Awareness to Acceptance to Action

 Through its strategic plan, Triton College built support for and overcame barriers to institution-wide neurodiversity efforts.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Future of Community Colleges

 Community colleges today are essential to civil society.
Example Plans

Futures Work

 From April 2020, the institution’s president led faculty and staff in a rigorous planning and exploration process to ensure that the college remained accessible and thriving through the pandemic and beyond. This bridge plan document details the action steps resulting from that process.
Conference Recordings

Go Nowhere Without a Partner

 This session will demonstrate how to meet complex needs for economic mobility and the workforce through several diverse partnerships. You’ll learn about various sources you can use to achieve successful project results as well as how you can nurture your campus and community partnerships for the long term.
Example Plans

Highland Campus Master Plan

 Master plan for a community college system’s newest campus, including the relocation of several programs.
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 Presentations

Immersive Educational Facilities Design: Manufacturing Innovation and Connection

 As trade schools gain national recognition for their affordability and career-centric focus, Raleigh’s Wake Technical Community College (WTCC) has set a new standard for strategic facilities design by capitalizing on community, industry, and government partnerships.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Improving Credit Mobility for Community College Transfer Students

 A report reprint from Education Northwest
Conference Presentations

Incorporating Critical Race Theory in Physical Planning

 Learn from Portland Community College's ongoing exploration of what it means to apply Critical Race Theory to the built environment.
Conference Presentations

Increase Student Participation in Planning to Create More Equitable Spaces
Conference Recordings

Insights

 This capstone session will identify key insights from the series, pose new questions, and offer creative, actionable ideas for moving higher education forward.
Example Plans

Institutional Planning & Accreditation Website
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Institutional Planning Process Infographic
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Institutional Process Mapping

 Minnesota State Community and Technical College coordinated and integrated processes for student onboarding to support institutional performance.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Institutional Transformation and Successful Accreditation Review Through Data-Informed Collaboration

 Implementing a values-based integrated planning framework equipped Southeast Community College to leverage the data it collected to build and strengthen relationships, align the institution within and across divisions, and prepare for change. The efforts led to the successful modernization of facilities, historic enrollment growth, staffing increases, other operational improvements, and a positive accreditation outcome.
Blog Post

Integrated Planning at Nicolet College

 During “Horizons 2025: Integrated Planning at Nicolet College,” presented at SCUP North Central 2023 Regional Conference, presenters Christin Van Kauwenberg, director of business intelligence, and Erika Warning-Meyer, chief of staff, described how the community college implemented integrated planning. Two conference attendees share the insights and ideas that resonated with them.
Example Plans

Integrated Planning Cycle Infographic With Links to College Plans

 The institution displays their list of institutional plans in a clickable infographic that shows them in the context of the long-range planning cycle and the annual cycle.
Conference Presentations

Integrating Facility and Academic Master Plans Through Collaboration

 In this session, we will share how the Mid-Plains Community College engaged in a collaborative process across the campus and community to integrate the facility and academic master plans.
Conference Presentations

Integrating the Educational and Facilities Master Plans

 Using an integrated planning model, Pima Community College District demonstrates how to integrate educational and facilities master plans through the lens of a shared mission.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

It Takes a (Virtual) Village

 This large community college successfully embraced virtual communication platforms and moved forward with a viable 10-year plan during a global health crisis, economic turbulence, and technological change.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Keeping the Focus Month by Month

 By strategically aligning monthly communications with its institutional goals, Muskegon Community College increased its connection with students, employees, and the community while reinforcing a shared sense of ownership.
Conference Presentations

Lanier Technical College

 We will explore the planning, design, and stakeholder collaboration behind Lanier Technical College's new campus, which is designed to house 50 workforce development programs.
Conference Presentations

LCC’s Health Professions Building: Centering Vitality Through Community Benefit

 Lane Community College’s (LCC) unique commitment to uphold principles articulated in their Community Benefits Agreement allowed for an innovative planning and design process that centered on the core needs of its most marginalized community members.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Learning Centers Versus Campus Development: Growing Pains for Community Colleges

 Los Rios Community College District is building learning centers and Sierra Community College District is maintaining a single college with multiple campuses: Both approaches work.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Leveraging Institutional Planning to Benefit Latinx Students

 How can institutional planners make a difference for underrepresented minority students? Senior administrators at East Los Angeles College addressed inequities in Latinx student transfer rates with data-backed culturally-relevant strategies.
Conference Presentations

Leveraging New Campus Development for Community Empowerment
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Managing Change from the Murky Middle

 Middle managers are often blamed for change failure and portrayed as change resisters or saboteurs. However, what looks like obstructionist behavior could actually be the observable effects of role ambiguity.
Conference Presentations

Not Your Typical Classroom

 This session will explore current and emerging approaches for medical teaching environments that enhance learning outcomes as well as inventive ways of leveraging building infrastructure for maximum functionality.
Conference Presentations

One Campus. Two Institutions. Three Libraries.

 Discuss the evolution of three libraries built in three separate centuries on the Bronx Community College of The City University of New York campus.
Example Plans

Operational Plan Feedback Form

 Worksheet for providing feedback on operational plan documents.
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Operational Planning Assumptions

 List of assumptions to guide the operational planning exercise.
Example Plans

Operational Planning Template

 Worksheet for action planning at the department/unit level.
Conference Presentations

Partnerships Forged in Planning Accelerate the Realization of Campus Vision

 Effective partnering, internally and externally, and addressing enrollment growth, vitality, and safety during the planning process can make all the difference in plan implementation.
Example Plans

Phase II Facilities Master Plan Summary

 A summary of facilities projects the college proposes to fund with capital bond proceeds.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Planning at Mesa Community College

 Within the span of a year, it’s possible to make significant progress toward achieving and institutionalizing integrated planning and budgeting.
Example Plans

Planning for the Future

 The website for the 2023 strategic planning process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Positioning Collegiate Libraries for the Future

 A community college library uses existing funding to renovate for community space—simultaneously positioning it for integration with a currently unfunded master planning process.
Conference Recordings

President’s Session | Every Student’s Dream Matters

 Come learn how Lorain County Community College (LCCC) identifies game-changing innovations and aligns resources to bring them to scale.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Promoting Engagement in Strategic Planning

 Creating a positive, reflective, inclusive, and transparent institutional climate facilitated improved engagement in and ownership of strategic and departmental planning. The process of using FAST goals (frequently discussed, ambitious, specifically measured, and transparent) produced constructive outcomes.
Example Plans

PVCC Futures

 The community college’s strategic plan describing high-level goals and strategies.
Example Plans

Quality Enhancement Plan
Conference Recordings

Renovating Student Services to Promote Success

 Using the renovation of Normandale Community College's College Services Building as a case study, we'll discuss how integrating student services and creating an innovative service model can better promote student success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Renovation/Expansion of Administration Building Offers Successful Paradigm for Integrated Planning and Collaborative Design

 Sustainability fits well with any renovation project as “adaptive reuse” considerations are inherent in the process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Shaping Community

 The concept of a campus hub for student life necessitates an understanding of the student center complex as complementary to the larger educational ecosystem.
Conference Recordings

Simulation and Partnerships

 This session will explore trends and partnership development strategies around simulation-based training facilities for first responder students and professionals.
Example Plans

Strategic Plan 2013–2016

 The institution used the framework of the AACC Completion Agenda to develop and align its College Completion Indicators to its mission. These measures address its core categories of institutional effectiveness.
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Strategic Plan 2017 Update

 This progress report measures progress toward goals put forth in the college’s 2017 strategic plan.
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Strategic Plan 2017–2018

 The college’s strategic plan lays out strategies for each of its three strategic goals. Each strategy is accompanied by a deadline date and a list of critical departments.
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Strategic Plan 2019–2020
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Student Success through Guided Pathways
Conference Recordings

Supporting the Whole Student

 In this session, we’ll share how the College of Marin and Chabot College's integrated learning centers are serving changing student populations using an inclusive library design approach.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Symbiosis

 Partnership opportunities are broad and plentiful—only limited by an institution’s imagination.
Example Plans

Technology Strategic Plan 2017–2021

 Technology plan for the college including current status of technology at the college, needs statement, and information about college technology directions.
Example Plans

Ten Year Vision for Success

 The college’s 2006–2016 strategic plan. Highlights include a progress scorecard for each year and a matrix to guide cost savings through process and technology efficiencies.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Tennessee Promise

 The Tennessee Promise will change the face of educational attainment for Tennesseans.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The 2016 Inside Higher Ed Survey of Community College Presidents

 This is a reprint of a study by Gallup® and Inside Higher Ed published in April 2016.
Conference Recordings

The Kitchens

 In this session, you'll learn how RCC delivers culinary workforce training and academic programs in a satellite facility at the heart of a poverty-concentrated area, pushing back economic isolation and promoting learning and health.
Conference Presentations

The Kodak Legacy Reimagined

 Monroe Community College opened its new urban campus in fall 2017 through an initiative that repurposed an industrial complex into a vibrant community college steeped in town/gown relationships that provide mutual benefits.
Conference Recordings

The Library in Transition

 The transformation of CCP's library will aid a diverse student body with learning, tutoring, research, and social spaces—learn from this project and discover methods to help your students achieve educational success.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Little Campus That Could

 The Institutional Effectiveness Office at Kaua‘i Community College developed and administered community and workforce surveys to better understand current and future educational needs of residents and employers on Kaua‘i.
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.
Conference Recordings

The Role of Community Colleges in Future-proofing Education

 In this session, we’ll share how community colleges can use metrics to understand long-term projections around regional enrollment needs and use human purpose integrated design to build for the future.
Conference Presentations

Two Community Colleges With Differing but Similar Survival Paths

 This session will explore how two community colleges are making both similar and different strategic choices in order to thrive during a very uncertain period in higher education.
Conference Presentations

UW Bothell/Cascadia College Master Plan

 We will discuss how the implementation of our master plan galvanized collaboration and amplified partnerships among two co-located institutions, public agencies, and the Bothell community to creatively address capital funding and implement needed growth.
Webinar Recordings

Voices from the Field: Episode #19

 Suzanne Wilson Summers explains how Valencia College, a large urban community college system and her ACE Fellowship host school, harnessed the power of personal outreach to ensure students regained a sense of agency and connection while providing engagement for employees.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

What Constitutes Tribal College and University Sustainability?

 Historical successes and challenges join missions, visions, and strategic plans for a glimpse of what TCU institutions are emphasizing, today and in the future.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

What Drives Instructional Costs in Two-Year Colleges

 In community colleges, who delivers instruction is more important in driving costs than what is taught.
Conference Recordings

You Can’t Cut Your Way to Financial Stability

 This session focuses on the unique financial challenges facing community colleges due to the pandemic.