Find Your College's Strategic Horizon

Autor/in	Alfred, Richard L.
Titel	Find Your College's Strategic Horizon
Quelle	In: Community College Journal, 74 (2004) 4, S.24-28 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1067-1803
Schlagwörter	Public Sector; Higher Education; Community Colleges; Academic Achievement; Leaders; Economics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentlicher Sektor; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Community college; Community College; Schulleistung; Fachleiter; Volkswirtschaftslehre
Abstract	Community colleges are experiencing tough times. As leaders watch the economy jump back to life and recognize this as a time of opportunity, they also realize that recovery in the public sector lags behind. Community colleges expecting to emerge from reduction stronger and better positioned will need to operate outside of a conventional business plan. Leaders will need to think differently about the future. They will need to visualize and strive to achieve a "strategic horizon" for their institutions--a state of functioning that is reached when an institution leverages its resources to create and pursue opportunities that take it to a higher level of development. A strategic horizon is not to be confused with a vision. It involves an organized process for gathering and examining information to determine what a college would look like when it is operating at peak capacity. Its focus is on tough questions involving the future of the institution and its approach to business and involves challenging convention and finding economies and opportunities through different ways of doing business. This article describes four activities that are essential in any effort to construct a strategic horizon. (Contains 2 figures.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10