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Strategic Planning in Higher Education

Strategic Planning in Higher Education. In higher education, bettering one’s condition includes hiring better faculty, recruiting stronger students, upgrading facilities, …. …strengthening academic programs and student services and acquiring the resources needed to accomplish these things.

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Strategic Planning in Higher Education

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  1. Strategic Planning in Higher Education

  2. In higher education, bettering one’s condition includes hiring better faculty, recruiting stronger students, upgrading facilities, …

  3. …strengthening academic programs and student services and acquiring the resources needed to accomplish these things.

  4. And since most institutions of higher education share a similar mission and compete for these same objectives...

  5. …an essential part of strategic planning involves shaping the institution in ways to ensure mission attainment…

  6. …by capturing and maintaining a market niche in the quest for resources, faculty and students.

  7. The distinguishing features of a strategic plan for an university involve:

  8. 1.- the long term.2.- the future of institution.3.- the future trends in the world outside the university.4.- its present and future resources.

  9. There are three components for the strategic analysis of an university:

  10. 1.- the environment.2.- internal resources.3.- organizational culture.

  11. The environment or external influences includes political trends; social trends; economic trends; technological and educational changes, etc.

  12. Internal resources are the features of an university on which its success is to be build: buildings, skills of teaching and support staff, reputation, financial base, location, etc.

  13. Organizational culture reflects all of the taken-for-granted assumptions and preconceptions through which members of an organization make sense of and interpret their world.

  14. Success can impede strategic planning. It can even make it seem unnecessary.

  15. The crucial stages in preventing stagnation and eventual failure are:

  16. 1.- detecting signals which may indicate a need to change.

  17. 2.- recognize a need for change and formulating a plan.

  18. 3.- making a corporate decision to change an carrying it through.

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