AXI Consult · EDU-12
Institutional Vision, Strategy & Graduate Outcomes
Facilitates senior leadership and faculty to clarify institutional identity, desired graduate profile, and strategic priorities for the next 12-24 months.
- Who it's for
- Colleges and universities.
- Duration
- 3-4 hours (half-day) or 1 day (retreat style).
Engagement objectives
What we'll achieve.
- Clarify a shared institutional identity and desired graduate profile
- Align senior leadership and faculty on strategic priorities for the next 12-24 months
- Translate the vision into a small number of concrete strategic priorities, not an unfocused wish list
Engagement process
How it unfolds.
Pre-Work
1-2 weeks beforeShort input-gathering from senior leadership and faculty representatives on current perceptions of identity and priorities.
Retreat Session
Half-day to 1 dayFacilitated retreat-style session to align on institutional identity, graduate profile, and strategic priorities.
Strategy Summary
Within 2 weeksDelivery of a concise strategy summary document reflecting the session's outcomes.
Tools & frameworks used
- Institutional identity and graduate-profile framework
- Strategic priority-setting matrix
Deliverables
- Facilitated retreat session
- Institutional identity and graduate profile statement
- 12-24 month strategic priorities summary
Consultant qualifications
- Experience facilitating senior academic leadership strategy sessions
- Comfortable managing competing priorities and viewpoints among faculty and administration
Success measures
This engagement is not graded. Success is defined by client adoption of the findings, not an external standard.
- Senior leadership and faculty representatives both affirm the resulting statement as genuinely shared, not imposed
- The strategic priorities are few enough (3-5) to be realistically pursued
- The priorities are visibly referenced in institutional planning within the following year
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Institutional Vision, Strategy & Graduate Outcomes
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