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The IU Principles of Excellence
IU Communications & Marketing ConferenceJanuary 19, 2011
Susan MokeDirector of Communications
Vic BordenSenior Advisor
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Overview Strengths, opportunities and challenges• an interactive task
Strategic planning in higher education and at Indiana University• History and context
The Principles of Excellence• How they came about
Implications for campus communications• Discussion
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Strengths, Opportunities & Challenges
On the worksheet, (individually) identify the most important• Distinctive Strengths (internal characteristics)• Opportunities (external exigencies)• Challenges (internal weaknesses and external
threats)That characterize your campus
Discuss among your group what you have each identified, looking for common threads in the “IU Experience”
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Strategic Planning Where an organization intends to go over a
pre-determined period of time How it plans to get there – what it needs to do
to get there How it will know if it got there, or if it’s on the
right path
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Strategic Planning in Higher Education
Associated with rise of “managerial administration” over “collegial administration”
Seminal publication: Academic Strategy by George Keller (1983)
Public universities private enterprise Prototypical model: what a new president
initiates after an initial “listening” period Varying approaches
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Common Approaches Basic
• Mission, vision, values, goals, approaches/strategies, action plans, monitoring
Issue/Goal-based• SWOT, ID priorities, strategies, update mission/vision, action plans,
operational plans Alignment
• Clarify mission, programs, resources, what works well what doesn’t, adjustments to the latter
Scenario• ID External forces, future scenarios (best case/worst case), strategies
to respond to change “Organic” (self-organizing)
• Take stock of what you are doing and the goals and objectives that underlie those programs and actions, make it more coherent, focus on learning for improvement
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Strategic Planning at IU Occurs at many levels• Campus• School• Department/program
The Principles of Excellence• An emergent, university-wide umbrella
for quality, coherence and alignment
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Bloomington
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Recent History of Strategic Planning at IU
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Strategic Directions Charter 1994-99 Brand administration Vision: To become
America’s New Public University
Strengths: IU’s values and traditions of excellence
Opportunities: IU’s diversity & unity
Challenges: Sustaining excellence in an era of change
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Recent History of Strategic Planning at IU
Strategic Directions Organic approach 8 Taskforces: 250 IU
constituents Democratic, messy,
inefficient, complex, controversial
$25M in seed funding Strategic planning at the
campus level
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Add your section hereMission Differentiation
Herbert Administration 2002-2007
A response to state initiatives
Alignment approach• Articulation of goals• Clarified/updated mission for
campuses Stimulated new strategic
planning at campus level
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The Principles of Excellence
McRobbie Administration Distillation of principles
articulated in Inaugural and State of the University addresses
Vision: To be one of the great research universities of the 21st century
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The Principles of Excellence Issue/Goal based Builds on key elements
of existing strategic plans
PoE Components• 6 Principles• Framework• Strategies• Initiatives• Metrics
A work in progress
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PoE Metrics Goal: A few good measures for each Principle Examples• The best academic programs
Number of top ranked graduate programs at IUB and IUPUI compared to peers
NSSE Benchmarks: Academic Challenge; Active and Collaborative Learning
• Academic success and completion Degrees and certificates conferred Graduation rates On-time completion and median time to degree
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PoE Metrics Examples, cont.• An Excellent Faculty
Significant Award/Recognitions Publication rate and citation impact of faculty Historical trend in diverse faculty hiring, retention, and promotion
• The International Dimension of Excellence Global Education: Title IV Language Centers, Languages taught, and
internationally related courses taught and degrees conferred International students studying at IU and IU students studying
abroad Faculty Activity: Faculty international grants, and travel;
internationally-related research and sponsored programs
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Communicating with Metrics
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Communicating with Metrics
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Implications for Campus Communications
How do the Principles of Excellence and our campus plans align?
How can we leverage both to clarify our messages, improve public perceptions, and promote support?