| Context |
| 8C1 |
What is your institution's vision of what your institution will be like
in the next 5-10 years? |
| 8C2 |
What are your institution's short- and long-term strategies? How are
these strategies aligned with your mission and vision? |
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Note 1: Strategies should be interpreted broadly to reflect
institutional nuances in language. Thus, strategies might refer to
initiatives, directions, objectives, etc. |
| Processes |
| 8P1 |
What is your planning process? |
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Note 2: Describe, as appropriate, planning steps, who is involved,
timelines, factors that are addressed, and methods for addressing the
future. Also, address how modifications to your mission and vision are
addressed. |
| 8P2 |
How do you select short- and long-term strategies? |
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Note 3: Address, as appropriate, the key influences, challenges, and
requirements that most affect your strategy selection and how you
address conflicting expectations of key stakeholder groups. |
| 8P3 |
How do you develop key action plans to support your institutional
strategies? |
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Note 4: Address the plans you regularly produce, implement, and revise.
Also, address how progress reports are regularly tracked as well as
communicated to students, faculty, staff, administrators, and key
stakeholders groups. |
| 8P4 |
How do you coordinate and align your planning processes and overall
institutional strategies and action plans with your varying
institutional levels? |
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Note 5: Levels might include, for example, colleges, departments, units,
and satellite campuses. |
| 8P5 |
How do you select measures and set performance projections for your
institutional strategies and action plans? |
| 8P6 |
How do you account for appropriate resource needs within your strategy
selection and action plan implementation processes? |
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Note 6: Resource needs might include staff, financial, space, and
equipment. |
| 8P7 |
How do you ensure faculty, staff, and administrator capabilities will be
developed and nurtured to address requirements regarding changing
institutional strategies and action plans? |
| 8P8 |
What measures of the effectiveness of your system(s) for planning
continuous improvement do you collect and analyze regularly? |
| Results |
| 8R1 |
What are your results for accomplishing institutional strategies and
action plans? |
| 8R2 |
Regarding 8R1, what are your projections of performance for your
strategies and action plans over the next 1-3 years? |
| 8R3 |
Regarding 8R2, how do your projections for your strategies and action
plans compare with those of other higher education institutions and, if
appropriate, organizations outside of the education community? |
| 8R4 |
What is the evidence that your system for planning continuous
improvement is effective? |
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Note 7: Results might include, for example, number of participants
involved in the planning process and employee and stakeholder
satisfaction with your institution's planning process. Address
historical trends and patterns, as appropriate. |
| Improvements |
| 8I1 |
How do you improve your current processes and systems for planning
continuous improvement? |
| 8I2 |
With regard to your current results for planning continuous improvement,
how do you set targets for improvement? What specific improvement
priorities are you targeting and how will these be addressed? How do you
communicate your current results and improvement priorities as well as
performance projections to students, faculty, staff, administrators, and
appropriate stakeholders? |
