Academic Planning
Whether part of implementing your institutional strategic plan or informing your campus master plan, brightspot’s academic planning helps you design your future – one in which you are differentiated, growing, and sustainable.
What degree, non-degree, or other academic programs will you offer in the future? What will your enrollment and your faculty and staff populations be? How will you organize your programs and people into colleges, schools, departments, institutes, centers, or other structures?
To answer these questions, brightspot and our parent company, Buro Happold facilitate an innovative and inclusive academic planning process that engages your stakeholders to look within your institution while also looking outside the institution to understand the competitive landscape and changes in learning, research, student life, and work. We combine these internal and external perspectives into insightful scenario planning, dynamic models, and practical plans.
Together, brightspot and Buro Happold conduct market studies to understand the competitive landscape and test the feasibility of creating, consolidating, sunsetting, or growing academic programs. We facilitate interactive visioning sessions to get in front of changes facing higher education. We develop projections in student enrollment, faculty, and staff that feed into capital and operational plans. We create new structures for you to implement these programs and achieve your goals.
“We wanted something much more than a typical market study and brightspot delivered… The market study was invaluable in our understanding of who the learners are, what they want to learn, how they want to learn, how many prospective learners there are, and what the tuition should be. The team had the insight and flexibility we needed as a new partnership, and now we’ve enrolled our first classes of students on their way to leading social change.”
– Lynn Priddy, President, Claremont Lincoln University
“brightspot helped us reimagine our campus for the next generation of creative leaders. Our college is a nimble, resource-conscious institution and brightspot met us where we are and were keen to understand both our stressors and aspirations in equal measure. They were agile and insightful partners throughout the process.”
– Sanjit Sethi, President, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
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