Strategic planning processes should be about creating a shared vision that all members of a student affairs division get behind. However, most experiences with long-term planning fall flat, in part because planning is often not connected to resource allocation or assessment.
Join us online as we identify the most common strategic planning and budgeting pitfalls and offer solutions that can help your student affairs division put your plan into action. While we will not be able to address all of the steps in creating a strategic plan, we will offer specific ideas that will help you use the plan you may already have.
Drawing on her experiences at a variety of institutions, our expert instructor will share examples of effective student affairs division strategic plans, budget templates, and assessment rubrics. Additionally, we will provide links to a variety of other resources (texts, webinars, membership organizations, and listservs), so you can continue to build your capacity around this topic after the webcast.
Who Should Attend
This webcast is ideal for vice presidents of student affairs and other senior leaders in the division, directors of student affairs planning and assessment, members of student affairs assessment committees.
Learning Outcome
After participating in this webcast, you will be able to address common challenges of integrated planning and budgeting to improve the implementation of your division-wide strategic plan.
Agenda
For each of the items below, we will explore challenges, opportunities and concrete solutions:
- Creating comprehensive, flexible division-wide strategic plans
- Connecting resources to planning
- Using assessment to make improvements and inform resource allocation
The focus will be on how to weave the above items together into a seamless process that doesn’t feel like extra work but becomes an integral and imperative framework that guides your decision making and program development.
Instructor
Anne Lundquist, Doctoral Associate and Ph.D. Candidate, Western Michigan University
Anne has served as the dean of students at four liberal arts colleges. She has earned a national reputation in her field, presenting at workshops and conferences across the country. She has written, presented, and provided training on responding to issues concerning students with significant psychological disabilities. She is the co-author of The Student Affairs Handbook: Translating Legal Principles into Effective Policies (LRP 2007). Anne earned her BA from Albion College and her MFA. from Western Michigan University. She is a doctoral candidate in the higher education administration program at Western Michigan University and works with WMU’s student affairs division, where she is coordinating a comprehensive assessment and strategic-planning initiative.