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Buffalo State College

Strategic Planning Stakeholders’ Conference

The Planning Context: Trends in the Road

Ahead

October 12, 2007


The Planning Context

• Introduction – Short Video Clip

• National/International Trends– Driving Forces in Higher Education

• State and Local Issues– The Environment Closer to Home

• SUNY/Buffalo State Context– MOU/Middle States PRR/NCATE


Driving Forces- Higher Education • Learning Swirls• Globalization Impact• Partnership Programs• Institutional Advancement• Technology – Net Gen Expectations• Roles, Goals and Transformations• Insight Initiatives

Source: Dr. Mark Milliron, Director, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development


Learning Swirls

• Changing Population Demographics– Uneven Growth, “Baby Boom Echo”,

Immigration

• Rise in Need for Education• Rise of Workforce Training• Changing Enrollment Patterns• Continuous Learning Imperative• From Pipeline to Swirls


Globalization Impact

• A Connected World– Politically and Economically

• Threat of Terrorism• Global Investments in Education

– The Rise of the BRICK (Brazil, Russia, India, China and Korea)

– Modeling our Work– Implications for Enrollment of International

Students at U.S. institutions


Partnership Programs

• K-12 Partnerships• University Partnerships

(programs/research)• Community College Partnerships• Government Partnerships• Corporate Partnerships• Policy Drivers

– Policy must catch up with competitive reality


Institutional Advancement• Public Institutions Generally Playing

“Catch Up”– Public Funding Challenges Growing

• Drive to be More Strategic in:– Legislative Relations– Alumni Development– Grant Writing– Entrepreneurship– Private Fundraising

• Changing Expectations for Leadership Team– Presidents, VPs, Deans, Chairs, and Faculty


Technology and The Net Gen• Trend toward Integrating Strategic,

Capital, and Technology Planning• Creation of CIO – Moving Technology

into the Boardroom• NetGen Expectations

– Web, Cell Phones, IM, MP3s, Online Communities

– Multi-User Environment Experiential Simulations (i.e. gaming) – Effective Educational Tool


Technology and The Net Gen• Viral Marketing

– Skeptical of Traditional Marketing Techniques– Want IM Sessions with Current Students– “School Daze” – Stick Man video – Kettering U

• Greater use of Social Networking as Educational Tool – Second Life

• Mobility – Want more Wireless Hot Spots

• Tech Overload – Need for Balance


Technology Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept the e mails I cannot get to, the time to answer the ones I should, and the wisdom to know the difference!


Roles, Goals, & Transformations• Changing Roles and Rewards

– Mission Creep/Morph as Needs/Demands in Environment Change

• Key Human Resource Gaps– Faculty, Staff and Administrators

• Need for Change and Transformation will be constant– Honing the System; Assessment, Accountability,

Transparency


Insight Initiatives

• Definition:“Combine explorations of information from the

past (hindsight) with looks to the future (foresight), come together in a moment of insight to power decisions that make a positive difference.”

• Leveraging technology, planning, research, and strategy

• Example – “Amazon.com” – data-mining and predicative analysis to tell you what other books/items you might like to buy


Insight Initiatives• Rising Insight Expectations• Rising Need for Insight• Information Evolution Model

– People– Processes– Culture– Technology

• Ethical Imperative– Use Students’ Information to Help Them

Succeed


State and Local Issues

• Governor Spitzer’s Commission on Higher Education

• Growth in H.S. Graduates – mostly in Downstate Counties

• Focus on Biotechnology, Cultural Tourism, Education as drivers of Economic Development

• New Capital Plan to be developed – H.H. Richardson Towers

• The “Graying” of Western New York


The SUNY/Buffalo State Context• The MOU with SUNY:

– Recruitment/retention of underserved populations– Modest shift up in position on selectivity grid– Faculty headcount – 65% full-time; 35% part-time– 75% of all courses taught by full-time faculty– Increase under-represented faculty– 5% increase in sponsored research proposals; 2%

increase in expenditures– 10 new on-line courses per year– 82% 1st year retention rate by 2010– 45% 6-year graduation rate by 2010


Summary

• The Road Ahead:– Rising Expectations

• From Students and Other Stakeholders

– The World is Flat– Collaboration and Partnerships are Essential– Technology Increasingly Important Tool– Rate of Change will likely Accelerate and be

Continuous– Focus on Individual Learning Needs

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