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Learning Resources

Determining Priorities

Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Model for Creating a Campus Sustainability Plan

 Institutions of higher education have a special obligation to lead sustainability efforts in order to provide the next generation of young adults with the information and tools needed to take on the challenges of the future.
Conference Presentations

A Unique, Integrated Approach to Strategy Execution

 The pandemic has underscored the importance of building systems, cultures, and tactical infrastructure that allow organizations to adapt, challenging us to rethink our priorities.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Leveraging Data to Engage Our Community

 Success in strategic planning requires decision-making that reflects the collective vision of diverse constituents.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Modifying the Strategic Planning Engine

 Using the Strategic Planning Engine model resulted in a more objective, replicable, scalable, flexible, and transparent planning process with useful and relevant results.
Tool

Reviewing and Updating Your Mission Statement

 This toolkit will walk you through the steps of evaluating your current mission statement, facilitating the key conversations and decisions that underpin an effective mission statement, and writing a mission statement that serves your institution.
Webinar Recordings

Strategic Planning That’s Truly Strategic

 What do strategic plans do? What does it mean to be “strategic”? These are among the questions addressed in a recent year-long study of 108 active college and university strategic plans. Hear directly from the researchers as they highlight a few important insights they discovered during their analysis, like how to avoid the many pitfalls of strategic planning and ensure a process focused on strategy and outcomes.