Planning for Leadership

This CAPHE program enabled presidents, in the early years of their presidency, to pursue institutional planning activities. Thirteen institutions took part in the program's first phase. In 1999, two additional institutions were added. The program was supported by a generous gift of $250,000 from the Christian A. Johnson Foundation in 1992.

Funder: The Christian A. Johnson Foundation

Program Status: The program officially ended in December 2001.

Participating Institutions

1993-1995
Bellarmine College
Beloit College
Central College
Georgetown College
Gordon College
Gustavus Adolphus College
Hamden-Sydney College
Marymount Manhattan College
Maryville College
North Central College
Pitzer College
Rockford College
Saint John's University

1999-2001
Elizabethtown College
Oakwood College

Project activities

The Planning for Leadership program showed that modest grants to recently appointed college presidents could have a significant impact on an institution's future. Recognizing the shortened lifespan of the college presidency and the ongoing changes in higher education that college presidents face, CAPHE established the Planning for Leadership program in 1993. The program provided modest financial support to college presidents to institute planning activities that strengthened their institutions for a new era. Colleges used these grants to plan and undertake strategies for institutional reorganization, curricular improvement, re-focusing community outreach and resource-sharing partnerships, improvement of institutional research and accountability systems, as well as to develop an institution's role in statewide K-16 education reform effort.