Collaborative Strategic Planning in Higher Education

Book excerpt: This book outlines a simple, five-phase collaborative approach to strategic planning that has worked effectively on many campuses. Specifically, Collaborative Strategic Planning (csp) refers to the disciplined and thoughtful process of meaningfully engaging relevant stakeholders in creating a shared future vision and goals for their institution. The five phases are: (1) Getting Organized; (2) Data Gathering and Engagement; (3) Making Sense of the Issues; (4) Vision Conference; and (5) Goals Conference. Appended are: (1) Additional Collaborative Tools; (2) Executive Summary of the Collaborative Strategic Planning Process; (3) Sample Concept Paper: Academics; (4) Sample Concept Paper: Visibility; and (5) Planning Audit. (Lists resources.).