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Download full textGroff, Warren H. – 1981
A process to assess a college's external environment and audit its internal environment in order to pursue options available to postsecondary education is described. Essentially the concept is one of matching opportunities in the external environment with institutional strengths as determined by an internal audit. Strategic planning must consider…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Decision Making, Economic Factors
Groff, Warren H. – 1982
Suggesting that technological changes are leading to a transformation from an industrial to an information society, this paper examines the role of strategic planning within this process. First, the paper explains the maturation of community college mission priorities in the post-World War II period. Next, a conceptual framework is presented…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, Community Colleges, Community Services
Groff, Warren H. – 1981
The literature on strategic planning, and the capabilities of Massachusetts system of public postsecondary education were assessed, as part of a 1981 leadership seminar. Teams from all public postsecondary education institutions in the state reviewed the basic concepts of strategic planning; critically analyzed the environment external to their…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Role, Curriculum Evaluation, Data Collection
Groff, Warren H. – 1980
If postsecondary education is to remain viable in the years ahead, it must be cognizant of societal forces, trends, and effects as they occur in the college context and service environments. A few select examples are illustrative of a broad range of forces, trends, and effects which intrude upon the policy-making and resource allocation functions…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Educational Research, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
Groff, Warren H. – 1999
This paper examines trends and issues in strategic planning for business and educational institutions on an international level. The paper is organized into sections on analysis, visions, and action plans. Under "analysis" the discussion focuses on commerce (electronic commerce, Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, and stages of the…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
Groff, Warren H. – 1982
A process for building futurism into the institution's strategic planning and human resource development model is described. It is an attempt to assist faculty and staff to understand the future and the formulation and revision of professional goals in relation to an image of the future. A conceptual framework about the changing nature of human…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Planning, College Role, Economic Factors
Groff, Warren H. – 1980
Influences on postsecondary education, the planning function, and the challenge to management systems for postsecondary education for the 1980s are considered. It is suggested that if postsecondary education is to remain viable in the future, it must be knowledgeable of societal forces, trends, and effects as they occur in the college context and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrator Attitudes, College Planning, College Role
Groff, Warren H. – 1994
This paper examines at how the rapid advance of technology is transforming education and educational institutions, particularly universities and higher education. The paper contends that the ultimate purpose of education is human resources development and that contemporary communication and information technologies hold the potential for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Economic Factors, Educational Quality, Educational Technology
PDF pending restorationGroff, Warren H.; Cope, Robert G. – 1985
Basic and advanced workshops on strategic planning and management for college personnel were held in 1985. Strategic planning and management includes: (1) assessing an institution's external environment to determine opportunities/threats; (2) auditing an institution's internal environment to determine strengths/weaknesses; (3) using these two sets…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Environment, College Planning, Futures (of Society)
Groff, Warren H. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1981
Strategic decision-making as a part of the higher education planning process is becoming more dependent upon data elements external to the institution. The context in which postsecondary education takes place, the maturation of the planning function, and the challenge to management systems for postsecondary education are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Career Education, College Administration, Data Processing, Decision Making
Groff, Warren H. – 1983
As our society evolves from an industrial society to a computer literate, high technology, information society, educational planners must reexamine the role of postsecondary education in economic development and in intellectual capital formation. In response to this need, a task force on high technology was established to examine the following…
Descriptors: Computer Literacy, Demography, Economic Development, Educational Finance
Groff, Warren H. – 1987
Institutions are created to fill societal roles. As society evolved from a primitive to an agricultural and then to an industrial stage, institutions were created to coordinate specialized functions. Education is the institution intended to provide the intellectual capital and the workforce to drive the economy of a society. The United States is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Educational Economics, Educational Needs
