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Strategic Planning Resources


What do students want from their educational experience?+

  • PsycINFO - You may want to start with search terms like those below to begin your explorations; add other keywords as you go to narrow your search.
    • College students
    • Social values
    • Expectations
    • Attitudes
    • Occupational aspirations
    • School to work transitions
  • ERIC (Education Resource Information Center) - ERIC has some full text reports, but the journals have abstracts only. Some useful search terms include:
    • College students
    • Aspiration* (tip: the * is a wildcard and you’ll retrieve items whether they’ve got the word “aspiration” in the singular or the plural – both are used in this database)
    • Values
    • Goals
    • General Education
    • Costs
  • Pew Research Center

Some useful resources include:
What I hear you saying is...: Analysis of student comments from the NSSE

The effect of spirituality and campus ministry on academic accomplishment in college students

Enrollment decisions and persistence of on-line learners in NACTEL and EPCE

Describing students involved in the search phase of the college choice process: a cluster analysis study

The Rise of College Student Borrowing

What do students want in advising?

What do employers want? +

Some useful resources include:

College Learning for the New Global Century, Executive Summary

Charting the Projections

Demographics +

Some useful resources include:

Mobility of College Students

Graduate and First Professional enrollment

Religious affiliation, Kansas

Higher Education Landscape: Current demographic trends in U.S. higher education

Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education Benchmarks

Technology +

  • Educause - Educause is a professional organization concerned with information technology in higher education. 

Some useful resources include:

ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Technology

Top 10 IT Trends

Leveraging the strengths of our four areas +

Some useful resources include:

National Adult Learners Satisfaction-Priorities Report

Student-to-student interaction revisited: A case study of working adult business students in online courses.

Trends in student financing of graduate and first-professional education.

Rethinking PhD learning incorporating communities of practice.

Attitudes affecting college students' preferences for distance learning.

The multifaceted nature of online MBA student satisfaction and impacts on behavioral intentions.

Trends and emerging practices in general education

Evaluating the first year experience: Students' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors.

Planning for population shifts

The Bucket List: A Service-Learning Approach to Community Engagement to Enhance Community Health Nursing Clinical Learning

Trends in Higher Education +

Some useful resources include:

Interactive map of adults with degrees

Tuition statistics

The Endowment Roller Coaster: Colleges Must Manage the Ups and Downs.

Environmental Scan (University of Illinois)

Tuition Discounting

Higher Education Landscape

Faculty, Governance Boards and Institutional Governance

College and University Endowments Have Shown Long-Term Growth, While Size, Restrictions, and Distributions Vary

2010 Private Colleges and Universities Financial Conditions Survey