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Example Plans

2015–2020 Strategic Plan
SCUP’s Example Plans Collection Why recreate the wheel? Browse or search the collection of plans and supporting documents from higher ed institutions that can help you and your planning team. If you’d like to share a resource, please reach out.
A robust unit plan developed by the university’s school of global studies.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

A Framework for Planning Organizational Diversity

 Cox’s model is used to determine whether a unit is on its way to becoming an effective multicultural organization, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement.
Conference Recordings

Actionable Data

 This session will share how Binghamton University has established an integrated data collection and tracking process and the ways in which the pandemic has affected this process and shifted institutional priorities.
Conference Presentations

Align Processes and Foster Collaboration to Streamline Planning Engagement

 The newly consolidated Augusta University implemented an annual planning and resource alignment process to streamline procedures and integrate strategic efforts across the institution.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Balanced Scorecard Implementation in a School of Nursing

 Implementing the balanced scorecard measurably improved the overall effectiveness of planning activities and increased individual involvement in and understanding of the strategic planning process.
Example Plans

Calendar to Develop Annual Plans & Budgets for the 2022–23 Academic Year

 The college recently redesigned its planning and budgeting process to strengthen alignment and improve communications. This calendar depicts the timeline for that process.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Collaborating, ‘Speed Dating,’ Celebrating, and More

 University colleagues share techniques and tools they find effective in their strategic planning process—and in fostering participation and intentional conversations.
Example Plans

Creating Our Future 2010–2020

 The unit plan for the liberal arts college within the unversity.
Example Plans

Department/Unit Action Plan Sample

 A worksheet provided to units and departments by the office of institutional research (filled with sample data).
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Grappling with Strategic Dissonance

 Educational technology units must continually monitor their strategic plans to ensure that they are aligned with the evolving realities of their institutions.
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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.
Example Plans

Integrated Planning Cycle Infographic With Links to College Plans

 The institution displays their list of institutional plans in a clickable infographic that shows them in the context of the long-range planning cycle and the annual cycle.
Conference Recordings

Integrating Planning at the Organizational, Unit, and Individual Level

 This session will demonstrate how our Integrated Performance Excellence Framework (IPEF) guides planning at multiple levels of the institution, all of which are tied to our strategic policy, plan, and processes.
Example Plans

Library Strategic Directions

 The university library’s five strategy statements expressing how it will serve the campus community.
Example Plans

Mission and Governance Web Page

 Mission, governance, and values statements for the library.
Example Plans

Operational Plan Template

 A simple template for drafting an operational or unit plan.
Planning for Higher Education Journal

Planning in Academic Departments

 A case study from William Paterson College, where the internal planning office led faculty in departmental planning activities to “stop the sprawl and provide a direction” for the biology department. Can planning be bottom up, with professors designing their own futures?
Example Plans

Strategic Plan for the Department of Chemistry

 The ten-year goals and strategic unit plan for the chemistry department at the university.
Example Plans

Strategic Plan for the School of Public Health 2020
Conference Presentations

Strategic Planning at the Division Level