Tag: Strategic Plans

Radical Recovery at Trent

Most of you probably don’t habitually read other institutions’ academic plans, but consider making an exception for this one. “Radical Recovery at Trent” is easily the most interesting strategy document written at a Canadian university in the last three years. Pursuing strategy at universities is tough. Real strategy means building on strengths, which in turn means being able to say that you as an institution are better at some things than others. But, too often, when a university stands up

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Differentiating University Missions (Part Five)

Our conference, Stepford Universities? Differentiation of Mission in the New Higher Education Landscape, wrapped up yesterday, and there were a lot of very interesting ideas floating around. To end the week, I’ll just touch on a couple of them. Clearly, part of the problem we have in discussing a touchy issue like this is one of vocabulary. As panelist Ellen Hazelkorn of the Dublin Institute of Technology says, we haven’t got the language to talk about this issue in a

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