scholarly journals Strategic Planning to Advance Equity on Campus: A Case Study at Portland State University

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa Zapata ◽  
Stephen Percy ◽  
Sona Karentz Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Board Of Trustees ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Institutional Racism ◽  
State University ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Portland State University

Propelled by many factors, including a newly appointed Board of Trustees responsible for governance of our university, resource shortages, and enrollment swings, Portland State University embarked on a strategic planning effort in 2014 with the intent of reunifying a divided campus and creating a bold vision for moving forward in the next five years. While committed from the start to goals of diversity and inclusion, the planning process itself generated greater awareness of and commitment to equity—a bolder vision of empowerment that creates a responsibility to understand and mitigate negative, but often unintended consequences of, campus decisions and action—particularly as they impact groups that have experienced institutional racism and injustice. Equity emerged not only as a goal, with intendant initiatives for action, but also as a commitment to conscientious ongoing attention to decision-making that embraces utilization of an equity lens.

The Role of Philanthropy on the Strategic Planning Process of a Selective Liberal Arts and Science College

2020 ◽  
pp. 1364-1384
Author(s):  
Wayne P. Webster ◽  
Rick C. Jakeman ◽  
Susan Swayze
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Strategic Planning Process ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science College ◽  
Decision Making Model

This chapter describes how constituencies of a four-year, private liberal arts and science college perceived the effect of philanthropy on the strategic planning process. Due to their reliance upon tuition revenues and private support, liberal arts and science colleges are particularly susceptible to ebbs and flows in the economy. How these institutions plan for the future and the extent to which philanthropy factors into strategic plans provides crucial information about the future of these higher education institutions (Connell, 2006). Gaining a deep understanding of how philanthropy shapes a strategic planning process and the decision-making model that was used during the process provides insight into how philanthropy, strategic planning, and decision-making models intersect to form a new decision-making model, described as feedback and revenue.

#NCAAInclusion: Using Social Media to Engage NCAA Student-Athletes in Strategic Efforts to Promote Diversity and Inclusion

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1) ◽  
pp. S35-S43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannick Kluch ◽  
Amy S. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Student Athletes ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Student Athlete ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Sports Industry ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Inclusive Excellence

In an increasingly diverse sports industry, inclusive excellence becomes an important axiom to engage a variety of stakeholders. This case study outlines the development of the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA) inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Social Media Campaign launched by the NCAA’s Minority Opportunities and Interest Committee in partnership with the national Student-Athlete Advisory Committees. The goals of this campaign were to provide the more than 500,000 student-athletes in the NCAA with a platform to create a dialogue on diversity and inclusion on their campuses as well as to communicate the benefit of inclusive environments to the student-athlete experience. By outlining the steps from the campaign idea to its implementation, this case study provides students with the ability to (a) understand a major sport organization’s planning process for a national social media campaign focused on diversity and inclusion, (b) analyze current diversity trends in the sports industry using the NCAA as an example, (c) trace the NCAA membership’s engagement with the campaign, and (d) determine to which extent a campaign such as this one can serve as a starting point for anchoring inclusive excellence in the fabric of intercollegiate athletics departments.

Manipulating Structure in Institutional Complexity Scenarios: The Case of Strategic Planning in Nonprofits

2020 ◽  
pp. 000765032092733
Author(s):  
Ziva Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Structural Components ◽  
Institutional Complexity ◽  
Shape Structure ◽  
Social Logic

Emergent structural approaches to institutional complexity tend to inhibit the role of agency in addressing logic multiplicity scenarios. Prior studies of logic multiplicity have documented a diverse set of outcomes, ranging from domination through hybridization, and characterized by various levels of conflict. A new stream of research has emerged that seeks to explain this heterogeneity through the structural components of complexity. These studies tend to minimize the role of agency in institutional complexity scenarios, positing that outcome diversity, and the organization’s ability to exert agency, can be accounted for by the interaction of exogenously determined parameters, such as centrality, compatibility, prioritization, and jurisdictional overlap. This article revisits the role of agency in these models, suggesting that agency is not only framed by, but may itself shape, structure. The article draws on a comparative case study in five Israeli nonprofit organizations, focusing on the introduction of the business logic through a strategic planning process, and the challenge that this represents for the legacy social logic. The case studies demonstrate that organizations regularly use a set of distinctive mechanisms to manipulate the structural components of complexity, and, in so doing, agentically regulate logic multiplicity outcomes.

scholarly journals Collaborative open strategic planning: a method and case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 832-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Amrollahi ◽  
Bruce Rowlands
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Formal Method ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Level ◽  
Open Strategy ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show how collaborative information technology (IT) tools and a crowdsourcing model can be leveraged for the purpose of strategic planning. To achieve this objective, a formal method of open strategic planning (OSP) is proposed. Design/methodology/approach Based on a review of the literature a set of activities, stakeholders, and governing rules are identified in the form of an OSP method. The proposed planning method is implemented in a case study of strategic planning in an Australian university. Observations by the research team, and archival records were used to ascertain the relevance of the used method. Findings A method for OSP is presented and assessed. The method contains four phases: pre-planning, idea submission, idea refinement, and plan development. These phases cover the activities required from conceptualization to preparing and publishing the strategic plan. The findings clarify how the principles of OSP helped the organization to include more stakeholders and provided the opportunity to make the planning process transparent through use of a collaborative IT tool. Practical implications The study provides managers and planning consultants with detailed guidelines to implement the concept of open strategy. Originality/value This study is among the few to propose a method for OSP based on empirical research. The study also shows how collaborative IT tools can be used for high-level organizational tasks such as strategic planning.

scholarly journals Institutionalizing Transformative Learning: The Trees, then the Forest, then the Realization

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Cunliff ◽  
Jeff King
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Authentic Self ◽  
Strategic Planning Process ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
The University

The Challenge Finding a sense of authentic self as an institution, a true sense of mission, and the means to live that mission were the central focus of a strategic planning process addressed by the University of Central Oklahoma about fifteen years ago. As the institution grew within a metropolitan-serving mission, the goal to transform students from adolescents to adults and find new potential in their lives led to an exciting journey that is still vibrant and relevant today. Potential Consequences The theoretical base provided within transformative learning has helped students, staff, and faculty align efforts. Description This case study provides replicable processes and specifics that may help others find a clearer path for fulfilling their mission. The study describes how the University of Central Oklahoma’s (UCO’s) transformative learning focus coalesced and became the point of distinction for a UCO education, helping to ensure that all activity supported our mission—helping students learn. Reflection The compelling, lived sense of mission developed from the initial strategic planning process has helped to strengthen the learner-centered culture of the campus while providing a structure that facilitates implementation and assessment.

scholarly journals Decision Making in Psychiatric Reform: A Case Study of the Czech Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-27
Author(s):  
Christopher G. Hudson ◽  
Eva Dragomirecka
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
The United States ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Psychiatric Reform ◽  
Trade Offs

Abstract This study examines the initial impact of a broadly participatory planning process in the Czech Republic during 2016–2017, aimed at both reducing inpatient care and expanding community mental health systems, on policy and programmatic decision making. A central focus of the study involves the trade-offs between and efforts to integrate shared decision making with evidence-based planning methods within the context of a national psychiatric reform strategy, particularly one involving a former Soviet bloc state. Given the uniqueness of the Czech experience, an exploratory case study methodology is used, one involving ten interviews with key informants and examination of a wide variety of documents. Results include the development of broad new decision and oversight structures, and the initial implementation of community mental health services. The nation faces some of the same trade-offs found elsewhere, such as in the United States, between an inclusive participatory process, and one that systematically incorporates empirical rational and evidence and best practices within bounded parameters. Implications for new psychiatric deinstitutionalization initiatives are identified, including development of a national mental health authority, a professional workforce, new funding strategies, multi-level service coordination, mechanisms to assure transparency, among others.

scholarly journals In the News

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (8) ◽  
pp. 409
Author(s):  
David Free
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Professional Values ◽  
State University ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Inclusive Curriculum ◽  
Portland State University

Welcome to the September 2017 issue of C&RL News. In light of the current political and social climate, many libraries and librarians are renewing their commitment to core professional values such as diversity and inclusion. At Portland State University, librarians are an integral part of teams working to support a culturally responsive and inclusive curriculum. Kimberly Pendell and Robert Schroeder write about the project in “Librarians as campus partners.”

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