Engaging Stakeholders

In higher education, new initiatives go nowhere without broad buy-in from stakeholders. But buy-in isn’t developed by holding a couple of meetings or sending a survey. Active stakeholder engagement in analysis, discussions about the future, brainstorm sessions, action planning, and decision-making will supercharge your college’s or university’s strategic plan … and every other plan. Integrated planning builds the relationships you need to truly engage stakeholders in shaping your institution’s future.

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The Faculty Factor
Creating Buy-In for Difficult Planning

Faculty support—crucial to planning—can be difficult to obtain, particularly if faculty have been burned by previous planning processes. This webinar recording details how two different planning efforts successfully won faculty support.

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Navigating Student Success

To gain additional 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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The Stories in These Walls

Cross-functional teams at the University of Wyoming, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and University of North Dakota effectively used storytelling techniques to position donors within the narrative of the universities’ missions and strategic plans.

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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.

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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.

Planning for Higher Education Journal