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Leadership Attitude Toward Planning

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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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Academic Planning in a Political System
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.
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.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Successful Processes to Engender Board Ownership of Strategic Planning

 The author shares the successful process and key strategies used at Ohio Dominican University to develop board engagement and ownership of the institution’s strategic plan and its implementation.
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.