Research On Strategic Planning Of First-class Universities In The US

Strategic planning of universities is systematically designed for its development in the future. It conceives the development condition and goals universities try to achieve, based on its current development. Scientific strategic planning of Universities is the beacon of universities’development, leading the school to develop in a rapid and sustainable way. On the one hand, much more attention has been paid to strategic planning of universities in China with the urgent requirements of constructing a number of the world’s first-class universities; on the other hand, the United States is still a worldwide leader in Higher Education, whose university strategic planning began to be made much earlier and has had rich experience. Researches on US strategic planning of first-class universities is very important for the development of higher education in China.The paper focuses on analysis of strategic planning texts of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Maryland at Baltimore. It will conclude the personalities and similarities of strategic planning of these American first-class universities by comparison, and then point out the referring value for the development and implementation of Chinese university strategic planning. According to the research rout, this paper will be written from the following four parts:Part I (Introduction) introduces the background and significance of the research, reviewing relevant researches at home and abroad and defining the key words; Part II (Chapter 1-3) focuses on comparison analysis of strategic planning texts of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Maryland at Baltimore, summarizing characters of these strategic planning; Part III (Chapter 4) summarizes the personalities and similarities of the strategic planning of the three universities; part IV (Chapter 5) puts forward some practical advice for strategic planning’s development and impletion in Chinese key universities, according to American universities’ experience.