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A Future Pathway

 This presentation will demonstrate how leaders can surmount 2021’s obstacles by aligning strategic priorities for the future.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Academic Deans Reveal Their Leadership Styles

 Academic deans adopt one of three approaches when developing the annual budget report for their colleges: distributed authorship, delegated authorship, or dominated authorship. Depending on the approach they select, deans can include and collaborate with their senior teams—or exclude, ignore, and alienate them. Their choice demonstrates how they lead.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Agile Leadership in a Volatile World

 Especially in turbulent times, higher education leaders would be advised to assume the six most valued perspectives: curator, architect, conductor, humanist, advocate, and pioneer.
Webinar Recordings

Agility Management Principles for a Volatile World

 This new approach will change the way you work, think, and manage—regardless of industry, position, title, training, budget, or educational background.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Implementing Sustainable Change in Higher Education
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Book Review: Shared Leadership in Higher Education
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Transforming Higher Education in Asia and Africa

 The book describes the author’s work over the past thirty years advising governments and universities in eight countries, providing case studies that focus on the challenges, failures, and successes in planning for change at twelve universities. The author explores themes, policies, and strategies that emerged, and provides widely applicable lessons for bringing about change, especially in using strategic planning as the vehicle for it.
Blog Post

Bring Your Identity to Your Leadership Journey
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Consortia

 Consortia, their impact on cooperating institutions, and critical factors in inter-institutional planning were the subject of a recent study for the United States Office of Education. This article, by staff members of one of the the studied consortia, is devoted to a discussion of the process of consortium decision-making.
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Effective Use of Resources: SCUP–11 in Retrospect
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Effective Use of Resources: SCUP–11 in Retrospect
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Engaging Faculty Senates in the Budget Planning Process

 The opinions of faculty may add to the development of productive strategies during tough economic times.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Gender Equity or Bust! On the Road to Campus Leadership with Women in Higher Education®
Conference Presentations

How to Create a Welcoming Campus
Conference Presentations

Improve Employee Engagement and Student Success Through Effective Leadership Practices
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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

Integrating Planning Into the Development of Future Higher Education Leaders

 A practitioner-based program uses the practices of integrated planning to cultivate the knowledge and decision-making capacity of mid-level faculty and administrators, enhancing the higher education leadership of tomorrow.
Conference Recordings

Keynote: The Empowered University

 Freeman A. Hrabowski III has led a transformation of UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) from a young, regional institution to an innovative research university. In our opening keynote, he discusses how—by taking a hard look in the mirror, understanding strengths and weaknesses, assessing opportunities and challenges, and engaging in difficult conversations—an empowered campus can innovate in course redesign, group-based and experiential learning, entrepreneurship and civic engagement, academic inclusion, and faculty diversity.
Conference Recordings

Leading in a Crisis

 This session will introduce you to concepts about preparing for adversity. Institutional leaders often rely on ineffective processes for crisis management, but we’ll provide you with a framework and tools that will allow you to more constructively navigate crises.
Blog Post

Listen Up Leaders

 To gain additional insight into strategies for establishing trust between stakeholders and their leaders, we turned to Sonia Alvarez-Robinson, associate vice president for strategy and organizational effectiveness, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Blog Post

Looking for Leaders

 To gain insight into how institutions can launch and manage effective leadership searches in this highly competitive market, we turned to SCUP Board of Directors Member Margaret (Peggy) Plympton, a principal at AGB Search.
Blog Post

Putting Yourself in Their Shoes
Blog Post

Recognize and Honor Your Identity
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Succession Planning

 The key is that the process of leadership formation is not random and serendipitous, but rather intentional and well planned.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

The Deep Blue Sea: Rethinking the Source of Leadership
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The Extraordinary Higher Education Leader
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The Language of Leadership
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.
Webinar Recordings

Transformation Best Practices in the Decade Ahead

 Inexorable challenges demand that higher education transform . . . and that transformation needs to start now. Learn more about these challenges and the knowledge, skills, and capabilities an institution needs to transform in the coming decade from the authors of the new book Transforming for Turbulent Times: An Action Agenda for Higher Education Leaders.
Conference Recordings

Transformation in Turbulent Times

 Come learn about our framework for leading transformation, including a checklist for success, case studies in change, and resources for smart planning and strong execution.
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Transforming for Turbulent Times

 Transforming for Turbulent Times: An Action Agenda for Higher Education Leaders can prepare your institution for the new learning ecosystem that will revolutionize work and learning by 2030. This book outlines a proven, eight-step process for planning, leading, navigating, and orchestrating the transformation necessary to thrive in the new world of knowledge, work, and learning. Whatever your role in your college, university, or learning enterprise, you’ll learn the principles, techniques, and actions that will make you indispensable to its transformation in these turbulent times.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

What Is Your Crisis ‘What If’?

 The Medical College of Wisconsin planned strategically, engaged executive leadership, and operationalized an Administrative Response Team to navigate critical incidents impacting the university.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Women Administrators in Higher Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives