Strategic Planning in Higher Ed: A Practical, Cultural, and Political Guide (Higher Ed Leadership Essentials)

A practical, cultural, and political guide to leading, planning, and making difficult decisions in today's colleges and universities. Every college and university depends on strategic planning to remain relevant, adapt to societal changes, and ultimately proper.Budgets, facilities, fundraising campaigns, hiring decisions, new academic programs, research agendas, student support, strategic initiatives, and crisis management all begin with a plan.Yet even the most carefully developed and detailed plans can falter when they collide with the realities of campus politics, competing priorities, leadership turnover, and institutional culture.In Strategic Planning in Higher Ed, David D. Perlmutter and Hesham El-Rewini offer an insider's guide for navigating the complexities of planning in today's colleges and universities. Rather than presenting planning as a purely technical exercise, they examine the human factors that determine whether plans (and planners) succeed or fail.Through real stori