Organization sustainability depends on the creation of innovative partnerships that engage organization members at all levels in setting strategy and achieving goals. Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is an approach to exploring what gives life to human systems when they function at their best. The use of an AI approach to strategic planning, invites…

This document is the second in a series of summary reports outlining Key Issues for Planning useful to staff throughout the Los Rios Community College District (CA) for the 1999-2000 academic year and beyond. The 1999 Environmental Scan of Greater Sacramento provides a comprehensive look at the external environment. It outlines changes in the…

This presentation outline with overheads demonstrates differentiated planning, a system with four separate planning methods designed to reduce confusion and increase staff commitment to planning efforts. Differentiated planning involves: (1) prioritization (used for single question issues, multiple question issues, and as a follow-up to the…

This report describes the activities of the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) over the past year. In January the CIC endorsed a plan for systematic strategic planning and discussions with member presidents and chief academic officers to consider the future of higher educational By January 2002, a document outlining key future strategies for…

The issue of quality in substance abuse treatment is often complicated due to persistent discrimination against people with drug and alcohol disease. The result is a self-perpetuating cycle of poor outcomes and misperceptions about the disease. However, research shows that treatment for drug and alcohol conditions, when properly delivered, can…

The State Library of Ohio designed this disaster preparedness plan to assist small libraries in gathering information that will be invaluable in the event of an emergency. This plan, which focuses on fire and water disaster prevention, is devoted to using simple and inexpensive measures to prevent a disaster or to lessen its effect. The plan…

The San Bernardino Valley College (California) Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) Plan was developed to specifically increase student enrollment and to improve retention over 2000-2002, and thereafter. Presents the SEM plan in two parts: recruitment and retention. The date, description, action, person responsible, date needed, date completed,…

Presents an overview of the linking of the strategic planning, institutional effectiveness and student outcomes assessment, and resource allocation processes at Arizona's Paradise Valley Community College (PVCC). The Institutional Effectiveness and Student Outcomes Assessment Model was designed to be integrated into the planning and budgeting…

Presents Piedmont Virginia Community College's (PVCC's) strategic plan. Contains the following chapters: (1) introduction; (2) statement of mission; (3) summary of the college's strategic initiatives: funding, organization, faculty and staff, curriculum and instruction, enrollment management, students and student services, facilities, technology,…

Much-needed initiatives to treat the immediate and long-term consequences of child abuse and neglect are costly. To address steadily growing needs cost-effectively, federal programs increasingly require community agencies to collaborate in providing services to children, youth, and families. Moreover, policymakers increasingly aim to capture the…

This instructor's edition provides an overview of Problem-Based Learning (PBL). PBL organizes students into teams that work on projects to achieve the learning objectives embedded in each PBL project. The focus of this PBL project is managing technological change. The project is structured around a high-impact problem--one that has the potential…

This report describes Missouri's Blueprint for Higher Education and the strategies that will achieve the system's goals of access, quality, and efficiency. One goal is to ensure financial access to an affordable system of higher education, with universal access to the 13th and 14th years of education. Strategies include: (1) identifying student…

Argues that the reputation of education research is simultaneously worse--and better--than most have assumed and that some efforts recently initiated suggest a strategy for improving the situation. Efforts to stimulate research syntheses on significant education problems are highlighted. (GR)

States that "bifocal vision" allows workers to commit to a plan yet adapt to changes in business environment. Finds that written and oral communication are essential to the success of any strategic plan and that communication skills make technical communicators valuable corporate assets. Advocates introducing technical communication…

Describes development of strategic objectives at the Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation Division of the Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center (NRaD). Discusses its plan to achieve these objectives. States that the organization's responsibilities span the continuum of information using technical communication skills. Uses…