2010 WASC Academic Resource ConferenceCollaborative Strategic Planning for Organizational Sustainability:

Case Studies of Implementation at Diablo Valley College

and Dominican University of California

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2010 WASC Academic Resource Conference

Overarching Theme

How to effectively link strategic planning with resource allocation to

achieve a financially sustainable institution and best serve students.

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Common Goals and Approach

•Inclusive process

•Outcome to include roadmap and accountability

•WASC imperative

•Optimize student experience

•Linked to resource allocation

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Differences in Approach

How to effectively link strategic planning with resource allocation to

achieve a financially sustainable institution and best serve students.

  Diablo Valley College Dominican University of California

Resource management paradigm

Required to provide services to more students with same level of resources

Focus on increasing total number of students; increases resources

Ownership Internally owned Jointly owned by trustees and faculty/staff

Rationale Integrating evaluative processes to planning activities

Development of school-centric model

Strategic model Crisis management Controlled growth

Implementation oversight

Integration Council - internal SIP Task Force – trustees and faculty/staff

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Best Practices

•Inclusive/collaborative approach

•Appropriate people at the table

•Transparency

•Standardize

•Clarity/consensus of priorities

•Data-based decision making

•Assessment/evaluation of process

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Strategic Institutional Planning Process

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Strategic Institutional Planning Process

• Phase 1 (SIP 1)– Articulation of Guiding Premises

• Mission, Vision, Core Values (MVV)

• Deployed to Schools and Organizational Units

• Phase 2 (SIP 2 = SAP)– Strategic Academic Planning by Schools

• Guided by University’s MVV and School’s SWOT Analysis

• Phase 3 (SIP 3)– Strategic Planning by Academic Support, Student Services, and

Institutional Support Units• Guided by University’s MVV, Schools’ SAPs, and Unit’s SWOT Analysis

– Strategic Initiatives, Action Plans, Five-Year Financial Plan

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Visioning Exercise

• Twelve visioning sessions during December 2008-February 2009• Methodology

– Participants wrote on Post-It® pads their vivid descriptions of their vision for Dominican by the year 2020.

– Using the Affinity Diagram method, the participants clustered the different ideas into categories or themes.

– Facilitator led a discussion of the themes and the development of a vision map that presents the participants’ understanding of the relationships among the vision themes.

• Outcomes– 72 vision themes for further analysis and integration

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Vision Themes

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Strategic Academic Planning Steps

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Goals, KPIs, Strategic Initiatives

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Action Plan Summary

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Responsibility Center Management

• Responsibility Center Management (RCM) is the management framework to link academic planning and resource allocation to enable the University to achieve academic goals and the Strategic Institutional Plan.

• RCM seeks to promote the broadest possible stewardship of the University’s financial resources (“subsidiarity”).

• The primary goals of RCM are:

– To encourage and reward innovation, creativity, and efficiency.

– To enhance Dominican’s capacity to generate additional revenues in support of scholarship, program, development, and other academic initiatives.