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Download full textMorrison, James L.; Renfro, William L. – 1984
The concepts of long-range planning and strategic planning are explained, and a planning model is proposed. Attention is directed to an environmental scanning model that is congruent with the concept of strategic planning and that emerges from one portion of the futures research community, issues management. A third planning model, the strategic…
Descriptors: College Planning, Educational Change, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
Mecca, Thomas V.; Morrison, James L. – 1988
ED QUEST (Quick Environmental Scanning Techniques) is a strategic planning process designed to identify emerging trends, issues, and events which portend threats or opportunities for colleges and universities, analyze their probable impact on the institution, and facilitate the development of appropriate institutional strategies. A workshop was…
Descriptors: College Planning, Community Colleges, Consortia, Educational Trends
Peer reviewedMorrison, James L. – Planning for Higher Education, 1987
The major benefit of an environmental scanning/forecasting system is in providing critical information for strategic planning. Such a system allows the institution to detect social, technological, economic, and political trends and potential events. The environmental scanning database developed by United Way of America is described. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Environment, College Planning, Colleges, Databases
Morrison, James L. – 1981
Policy-impact analysis is introduced as a model to aid higher education in dealing with the significant problems in the decade of the 1980s. The model provides a framework within which a variety of futures research techniques are tied to policy development, implementation, and evaluation. The utility of the model is that it structures…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Campus Planning, College Administration, College Planning
Morrison, James L. – 1990
The focus of the session summarized in this paper was on how postsecondary educational institutions can better anticipate the future of higher education by using the "alternative futures approach to planning" model. The alternative futures model processes the best available information obtainable so that plausible alternative futures in…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Educational Trends, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedPtaszynski, James Garner; Morrison, James L. – Planning for Higher Education, 1990
The Strategic Planning Committee at the Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, identified what issues, trends, and possible events might affect the school in the future. The implementation of the ED QUEST planning model is described. (MLW)
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Case Studies, Change, College Admission
Morrison, James L.; Ptaszynski, James G. – 1990
An environmental scanning system was developed by the admissions office of a graduate school of management in a small southeastern university. The school's strategic planning committee felt that it would be beneficial to acquire information concerning issues, trends, and possible events that might impact upon the school in the future and to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classification, Data Collection, Educational Planning
Morrison, James L. – SRHE International Newsletter, 1990
Administrators and scholars from 10 countries attended a global change seminar at St. Andrews University in Scotland. The purpose was to introduce a systematic and rigorous planning methodology to enhance success in moving forward into a complex, turbulent, and uncertain future. The focus of the methodology was the identification, analysis, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Change Strategies, College Administration, Futures (of Society)
