Developing Comprehensive Academic Plans

Institutions engage in academic planning to supplement strategic planning processes and guide future academic direction. This report profiles the processes seven public research institutions undertook to develop comprehensive academic plans and to identify opportunities to create signature “programs of tomorrow.

Models of Community Investment and Partnership Strategies and Processes for Ensuring Mutual Benefit between Institution and Community

Institutions continue to face increasing pressure from faculty, students, and other concerned constituents to divest endowment holdings from perceived social injustices. In this report, investment officers and advisory committee members offer insight into institutional practices used to respond to these concerns through the adoption of socially responsible investment policies and other socially responsible investment options. Contacts offer recommendations on balancing the administration’s fiduciary responsibility to ensure maximum endowment returns with the social concerns of institutional constituents.