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Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Call to Action for Student Success Analytics

 Optimizing student success should be Institutional Strategy #1.
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Adjunct Faculty Can Increase Student Success

 Although the numbers of adjunct faculty members at most institutions of higher education have increased, those instructors rarely are included in programs to improve student achievement. But Cal Poly Pomona, by providing modest resources and mentoring, generates opportunities for adjuncts to positively affect student success.
Conference Recordings

After the Fall

 Come learn how you can plan and coordinate campus-wide retention efforts and promote faculty participation at your institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

AI and HI Working

 As the AI tools get smarter and as HI skills continue to enhance planning, higher education should continue to explore what leading campuses have already accomplished.
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All Things Considered: Collaborative Approaches to Academic Program Proposals

 Academic program misalignment can have serious consequences for institutions, such as a lack of support for competing priorities and unwieldy maintenance of administrative oversight.
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An Analytics Handbook

 Data is powerful but not if you don't know how to use it. This handbook is designed to help any higher ed leader unleash the power of data that is always available but seldom leveraged.
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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.
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Assessing Institutional Capacity for Mission-Fulfillment and Student Success
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Benchmark Your Digital Capabilities to Improve Student Success

 You will learn how to assess your institution’s digital capacity for student success technologies so you can affect costs and improve outcomes with new analytics tools and services.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: Higher Education Systems Redesigned
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Book Review: The Connected College
Conference Presentations

Building a Culture of High Performance, Accountability, and Continuous Improvement from a University System and Institutional Perspective

 The President of two University System of Georgia (USG) universities during the process and initial implementation of Comprehensive Administrative Review (CAR) will provide an institutional perspective and insight into building a culture of high performance with a focus on evidence-based leadership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
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Building a New Medical School With Integrated Project Delivery

 Effective means and methods for building projects result in campus environments that advance institutional missions and goals, ensure student success, and support campus communities working for change.
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Building a Path Forward

 United Negro College Fund and HBCU college leaders will examine enrollment, instruction, student success, historic preservation, and fundraising in a post-pandemic world and explore how we can transform these challenges into successes.
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Business Methodology in an Academic Setting Transforms Student Outcomes

 Come learn how the University of Kansas Edwards Campus is recruiting well-qualified, motivated students by adopting industry sales techniques focused on vetting qualifications and pre-requisites, bridging adviser communications, and reengaging prospects to materialize student outcomes.
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California State University’s Graduation Initiative 2025
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Campus Space Design for Student Diversity: Results of a Pilot Study on Belonging

 A student’s success and sense of belonging are connected. While campuses invest heavily in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, gaps still exist.
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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.
Example Plans

Creating a Legacy Like No Other

 Strategic plan for the university, which is beginning its second decade after consolidation.
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Creating a Student Success District Through Transformative Renovations

 First generation and marginalized students often have difficulty accessing campus services. Holistically supporting students through integrated services so that they feel valued, respected, and included is critical to graduation and retention rates.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Cultivating the Future of Graduate Education

 Like any individual seeking to make a rational decision, doctoral students must decide if the benefits of earning this degree outweigh the costs.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Democratizing Data to Close Equity Gaps

 Kean University strategically reframed and visualized student data, merged planning processes, and harnessed analytics to dismantle impediments to bridging equity gaps in higher education.
Webinar Recordings

Destination 2030
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Diversify the STEM Experience Through Integrated Planning

 Portland State University's (PSU) integrated planning process involved multiple departments, coalesced institutional and strategic goals, bolstered educational and industry ties, and focused on diversity to dismantle barriers within STEM disciplines.
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Eliminating Equity Gaps Through Data and Institutional Change Webinar
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.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Innovation to Impact

 Rigorously evaluating the impact of innovative student success initiatives is key in meeting institutional goals for student outcomes, resource allocation, and return on investment.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

From Institutional Advancement to Termination

 The college’s closure demonstrates that integrated planning is not limited to growth and expansion. It also offers a practical framework for aligning people, resources, and obligations when an institution must contract and ultimately close.
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Higher Ed’s Missing Link

 We'll share our metrics-based planning framework—that's producing remarkable outcomes—and explain how you can apply this concept at your institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Improving Credit Mobility for Community College Transfer Students

 A report reprint from Education Northwest
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Improving Student Support on a Decentralized Campus

 Portland State University’s Office of Student Success adopted a project management framework to improve student outcomes, starting with a pilot program to administer hardship funds.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Indiana’s Twenty-First Century Scholars Program

 Indiana’s Twenty-First Century Scholars program effectively meets the needs of high-risk and low-income students by understanding the student’s mind-set, providing mentoring relationships, being flexible with credit load minimums, and utilizing alumni for student recruitment.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Innovation in Action

 Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) is an emerging, innovative practice with the potential to create transformative institutional change.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Institutional Expenditures and State Economic Factors Influencing 2012–2014 Public University Graduation Rates

 A better understanding of how to allocate different types of institutional expenditures for maximum return on investment may positively influence six-year graduation rates.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Is Higher Education Ready for Its Learners?

 With sweeping shifts in recruitment and retention of students throughout higher education, Northern Kentucky University committed to a pivot. Its new student framework emphasizes student support and academic delivery driven by strategic decisions and data rather than by impulsivity. Their Success by Design framework encouraged innovations that focused the university on meeting learners where they were.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Keep on Keepin’ on

 A support program for low-income and/or single-mother students to improve their persistence and retention was revisited 15 years after it had been launched at Charter Oak State College. Did follow-up with the graduates show that the effort had aided the former participants in obtaining their college degree? Had the collaboration between the institution’s Academic Services, Enrollment Management, and Financial Aid departments—and the support they offered—help the students to persevere? Based on survey results, was the program still of value, and what improvements needed to be made?
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Leaning into Institutional Effectiveness

 Colleges and universities can transcend fragmented initiatives and cultivate a culture where cohesion is not just a buzzword but a foundational strategy for achieving educational outcomes that truly matter.
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Learning Space Design for the Ethnically Diverse Undergraduate Classroom

 This pilot study was conducted to evaluate how space contributes to the learning outcomes of a demographically diverse class of students at Morgan State University, a Historically Black Institution.
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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Leveraging New Campus Development for Community Empowerment
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Libraries in Shaping the Future of Higher Education

 How can institutions leverage librarians as educational partners, complementing the classroom experience, to ensure students from all walks of life have a strong net of academic support?
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Live, Dine, Thrive: Fueling Futures with a Nexus of Transformative Resources

 Championing excellence through campus initiatives, Morgan State University's Thurgood Marshall Hall centralizes diverse student services at the student's doorstep for a holistic focus on sustainability, wellness, and living-learning.
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Making an IMPACT!

 Discussion will focus on the changing expectations for librarians, especially as instructional partners, the redesigning of library learning spaces to support instructional innovation, and elements necessary for developing a faculty learning community focused on enhancing student-centered learning.
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.
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Navigating Student Success

 To gain insight into how integrated planning to support student success can be a game changer, we turned to Paula Stossel, strategic advisor to the president for student success, and Amber Racchini, vice provost for student academic success, at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. They graciously accepted our invitation to address questions about their cross-functional effort to ensure a student-centered approach to delivery of support services at IUP.
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Open-concept Faculty Neighborhoods for More Collaboration and Communication

 Traditional, siloed faculty offices are no longer the best option for serving student and staff needs.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Partnerships Promote Inclusion

 Intentional planning and a competency-based, personalized learning model empowers graduate students from the architecture discipline to assist secondary students in becoming knowledge seekers and design professionals.
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Planning for Access, Equity, and Belonging at Buffalo State University
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Planning for Access, Equity, and Belonging at Buffalo State University

 As an urban-engaged university, Buffalo State University's strategic commitment to diversity, inclusion, and access has strengthened and diversified student recruitment, raised retention rates, and built community within and beyond the campus. Buffalo State's reputation of providing quality education, access, equity, and engagement requires inclusive, multi-functional spaces that foster a sense of community and develop a welcoming and equity-minded culture for all students.
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Planning for Equity-Centered Transformation

 We must abandon the traditional three- to five-year planning cycle in favor of combining a macro-planning approach with shorter-term sprints (quick-turnaround scenario planning flexibility) to meet the changing needs of our students and communities.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Planning the Online Pivot

 A regional public university intentionally designed and enacted academic planning to support enrollment stability during the transition to a fully online graduate program.
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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

Redefining Federal Work-Study Programs

 The University of Missouri-Kansas City, by reinventing its campus Federal Work-Study (FWS) program (newly termed PRO Roos), committed to a goal of supporting student success through developing their career-readiness skills. FWS students were engaged in worthwhile campus employment that increased their sense of belonging within the university, enhanced their professional proficiencies, and prepared them for careers after graduation.
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Relationship Building: Strategies for Inclusive, Student-Centered Design

 The Dr. EJ and Margaret O'Brien Hall at Marquette University showcases the ways in which relationship building between people, disciplines, space types, and contexts advances design to achieve human-purposed, inclusive outcomes for the department and campus.
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Shaping What’s Next

 The university’s detailed strategic plan, which includes goals focused on student success, diversity and equity, and increasing its presence as a research center.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Social Mobility and the Graduation Rate Paradox

 By using a metric-based planning framework, researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso identified areas for institutional intervention to enhance social mobility outcomes.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Strategic Alignment for Degree Completion

 By coordinating cross-functional teams, employing real-time data, and strengthening communication systems, a university bolstered student retention and completion without requiring new funding or staff.
Example Plans

Strategic Plan 2017–2022
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Strategic Priorities 2014–2019

 A high-level document enumerating the institution’s five strategic goals and strategies for achieving each goal.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Streamlining the Process of Student Success and Persistence

 A combination of course prerequisite simplification and focused efforts by academic advising and tutoring services, when and where needed most, can substantially improve student achievement and degree attainment.
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Student Success

 We'll focus on tools and solutions that your institution can incorporate into its facilities planning process to ensure your learning spaces contribute to student success.
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Success by Design

 Website presenting the university’s expedited and focused strategic planning process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Tennessee Promise

 The Tennessee Promise will change the face of educational attainment for Tennesseans.
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The Art and Science of Supporting Adult Learners

 More than ever, nontraditional students and adult learners are making up more and more of the student body at colleges and universities across the country. Learn how to effectively stand out from other institutions who are making mistakes in 10 key areas with the adult learner population.
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The Benefits of Designing for Neuro-inclusion on Campus
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The Tuskegee Trajectory

 The university’s strategic plan details five broad goals with supporting strategies and measures for success. Focus centers on student success and leveraging technology for the 21st-century learning experience.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Transforming Data into Meaningful Information

 Leaders in two different accreditation regions share best practices and lessons learned from their integrated planning evolution and its impact on operational efficiency and student learning.
Trends for Higher Education

Trends for Higher Education | The Student Voices Edition

 This special issue of Trends describes student perspectives on four trends featured in recent issues of Trends for Higher Education: AI, personal finances, enrollment and attrition, and international students. Learn more about the opinions, reactions, and perspectives students have about these critical topics, preparing your institution to engage with your students in a more informed way.
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Turning Campus Green Space Into Student Success
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Using the Student Success Trifecta to Boost Enrollment and Retention

 As higher education faces the demographic cliff, institutions must find ways to boost enrollment, improve retention, and promote student success with a focus on first-generation students, DEI, and students with learning differences.
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Utah Board of Higher Education Strategic Plan 2021

 Strategic plan for the university system developed by the state’s board of higher education.
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Voices from the Field: Episode #2

 Cynthia Tweedell, Assistant Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, Ohio Christian University talks about how this faith-based institution with a personal touch is working through the transition for students, athletes, and summer programs.
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Voices from the Field: Episode #3

 Mike Martin, Associate Dean Science, Math, and Health at John Carroll University discusses how the administration addressed the first few weeks of the COVID-19 crisis and how they have creatively shifted gears with students and faculty toward what’s next.