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Planning Imperatives for the Next Century: A Guest Essay

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Taking into consideration what has occurred with planning in American higher education over the past three decades and in light of the demands for institutional effectiveness, our planning efforts must be reinvigorated and recast. In the belief that different strategies are needed now, ten imperatives for planning are presented and explained so as to address this need.

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  1. Higher Education and Psychology, U.S.A.

    Cameron Fincher (Regents'Professor)

  2. Institute of Higher Education, the University of Georgia, U.S.A

    Cameron Fincher (Regents'Professor)

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Fincher, C. Planning Imperatives for the Next Century: A Guest Essay. Innovative Higher Education 24, 175–182 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:IHIE.0000047409.89359.b6

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