The current environment of oversight and
accountability, along with declining state support
for higher education, have prompted many
universities to utilize strategic planning in order
to achieve their objectives. Yet strangely,
relatively little research has been done on
evaluation models for assessing strategic planning
in higher education institutions. This study
endeavors to shed some much-needed light on how
higher education institutions in the United States
have assessed their university-wide strategic plans
by focusing on their evaluation methods.
Exemplar characteristics drawn from the study s
findings result an evaluation methodology that a
higher education institution can apply to its
strategic plan initiative and may thus provide
academic practitioners with a comprehensive tool
with which to evaluate their own institutions
strategic plans.
accountability, along with declining state support
for higher education, have prompted many
universities to utilize strategic planning in order
to achieve their objectives. Yet strangely,
relatively little research has been done on
evaluation models for assessing strategic planning
in higher education institutions. This study
endeavors to shed some much-needed light on how
higher education institutions in the United States
have assessed their university-wide strategic plans
by focusing on their evaluation methods.
Exemplar characteristics drawn from the study s
findings result an evaluation methodology that a
higher education institution can apply to its
strategic plan initiative and may thus provide
academic practitioners with a comprehensive tool
with which to evaluate their own institutions
strategic plans.