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A Practical Guide to Strategic Planning in Higher Education

 A resource for anyone engaged in college or university strategic planning, and an excellent primer for planning committees. This second edition also contains new strategies for using an institution’s strategic plan during times of institutional upheaval, and additional techniques for jump-starting various parts of the planning process.
Conference Presentations

A Successful Model for Integrated Strategic Planning and Implementation

 This session will delve into the creation of a strategic plan at The Ohio State University (OSU) and its academic medical center. The plan leverages program development and integration of enrollment as well as DEI plans to advance goals and meet workforce needs.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Action Research to Support the Sustainability of Strategic Planning

 Action research examines real-life events to understand and shape future organization action.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: How to Implement Your Campus Strategic Plan
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Campus Strategic Sustainability Plan
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Case Study of New, Inclusive Process for Leading and Orchestrating Transformation

 Higher education planners require a proven methodology for supporting their leaders as they seek to transform their institutions in the face of existential threats and challenges in the coming decade.
Conference Presentations

Collaboration in Strategic Resource Alignment

 A codified planning and resource alignment process can elevate institutional planning culture and help ensure the alignment of resources to the strategic plan. We'll show how planning and resource alignment are part of a systematic, data-informed, and integrated approach to achieving an institution's mission and vision.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Coordinating Complexity

 The authors replaced a costly, time-intensive model with a SharePoint-based system to transform sprawling processes into responsive systems for growth.
Conference Presentations

Culture-infused Master Plans: Transforming UTTC Through Regenerative Design

 This session will share lessons learned from United Tribes Technical College's (UTTC) master plan that serves as a living document and adapts to changing needs. We'll explore how this culture-infused master plan applied an integrated approach to campus development over five years, addressing five primary needs with a focus on culture, regenerative design, and phasing to support strategic alignment.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Designing and Implementing Systemic Academic Change

 The Hiram College president offers a constructive and realistic example of systemic change designed to help liberal arts institutions not only survive but thrive in the face of 21st-century challenges.
Conference Presentations

Does Roll-Out Matter?
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Flexing Beyond the Pandemic

 The IT division at Minnesota State University, Mankato— working as part of a campus-wide collaborative effort—quickly and successfully installed new tech in more than 100 classrooms within months of COVID-19 first appearing. Outcomes of the large-scale project are seen as a key attractor for incoming students, regardless of where they are learning.
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From Awareness to Acceptance to Action

 Through its strategic plan, Triton College built support for and overcame barriers to institution-wide neurodiversity efforts.
Webinar Recordings

From Surviving to Thriving

 Join us to learn how you can create a culture of strategy execution to prioritize tactical daily work with your institution's overall strategy, leading to greater stakeholder investment in your shared vision.
Conference Recordings

Higher Education’s Financial Trajectory

 Moody's will discuss the financial outlook for the higher education sector over the next two years and beyond.
Conference Recordings

Improve Implementation and Innovation With Project Management

 We will share how University of Illinois has introduced project management tools and processes to help stakeholders implement plans and use resources more effectively.
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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.
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Integrated Planning Competencies

 This toolkit details the competencies—knowledge, dispositions, and skills—an individual needs to perform integrated planning in higher education.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

It’s Important to Follow Through on Your Plan

 Integrated planning doesn’t stop at the planning. We should identify and reward institutions that have made meaningful progress in achieving strategic goals.
Conference Presentations

Keep Focus: Improve Outcomes and Engagement With a Communications Calendar

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

Lessons Learned From a Successful Strategic Plan Implementation Process

 You have a beautiful, shiny new strategic plan?
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.
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Live Your Strategic Plan: A Framework for Facilitating Campus Engagement
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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.
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Mission-Aligned Online Academic Programs at US Jesuit Institutions

 A custom survey measured the process maturity involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating online offerings that reflected the principles of Ignatian Pedagogy.
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Overcoming a $90M Budget Overage in Vanderbilt University’s Residential Colleges

 The University, architects, engineers, strategic planning consultants, and contractor teams worked hand in hand to peel back the onion to stem the overruns.
Conference Presentations

Strategic Implementation

 By engaging employees as “owners” in the strategic planning process, they can actively manage the forces and operational processes during plan implementation, monitoring, and controlling.
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

Systemness

 This article traces the launch of a substantial reorganization of public higher education in Connecticut through the lens of “systemness”. The case study details the dynamics and challenges of implementing “Transform CSCU 2020” in a period of turbulence and change with a concluding focus on lessons learned.
Conference Recordings

The Strategic Doing Methodology at Northern Michigan University

 Many institutions face challenges in evolving traditional, and often ineffective, planning processes into fully participatory systems that use collaborative methods and techniques for improving outcomes.
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.
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.