Futures-thinking workshops help 娱乐城官网 be nimble in strategic planning
Imagining the unprecedented challenges and opportunities higher education may face is essential to planning a resilient future for 娱乐城官网.
As university leaders work to ensure futures-thinking becomes a core practice in strategic planning and decision-making at 娱乐城官网, a series of workshops led by the Institute for the Future kicked off this year with the goal of developing a definitive foresight toolkit at The Beach. Over several weeks, members of the seven Beach 2030 Action Plan teams 鈥 as well as campus leaders over 娱乐城官网鈥檚 physical, financial and No Barriers campaign plans 鈥 have committed to attending a workshop to learn foresight skills. Discovering ways to use the practices to build consensus around future goals and identifying new pathways to achieve them are fundamental objectives.
In 2018, Institute for the Future helped 娱乐城官网 envision the world of 2030, facilitating the online, that sought input from the entire university community to analyze current trends and signals of change in order to map potential impacts to higher education the ensuing decade might bring. The ideas captured in that full-bodied brainstorm came together in the Beach 2030 strategic plan, a broad vision for the future that articulates the five chief priorities and seven action zones by which 娱乐城官网 would work to align its services and mission.
As teams comprised of 娱乐城官网 administrators, faculty, staff and committee partners work to complete Action Plan-aligned projects, IFTF鈥檚 training aims to provide tools to enhance their capacity to imagine how 娱乐城官网 can rise to the challenges and harness the opportunities of the rapidly changing world around it.
Futures-thinking skills taught in the workshops will be compiled into a 娱乐城官网-specific foresight toolkit. The goal is to have a singular set of tools for the entire university to draw on to inform strategic planning or simple decision-making with a foresight mindset.
娱乐城官网 will utilize these workshops to help build our future ready capacity. Some participants will emerge as 鈥渇uturists,鈥 equipped to teach others on campus the futures-thinking skills using practices from the toolkit. This central 娱乐城官网 foresight practitioner team will help energize the campus community to be nimble in future planning.
Some colleges and divisions 鈥 including the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts and the Division of Student Affairs 鈥 have also opted to participate in a foresight training workshop, as part of specific project planning efforts or to better prepare their services for the future of higher education.
鈥淭hese workshops are helping our campus community to anticipate the unthinkable and imagine the unimaginable,鈥 said Dhushy Sathianathan, Vice Provost for Academic Planning. 鈥淲e are glad to see broad participation in these events.鈥
If your 娱乐城官网 college, division or department would like to take part in an IFTF training, contact the Beach 2030 team.
