Herman D. Lujan – författare

This detailed guide outlines a strategic planning approach uniquelysuited to the academic environment and proven effective in numerousinstitutions around the country. The authors address the complexnature of stakeholders and conflicting purposes in an academicsetting. Their approach leads to?rather than starts from?theinstitutional mission statement, and includes realistic methods ofnegotiating the political barriers that often obstruct thedevelopment of a strategic plan and its implementation. This informative book is particularly effective when used with thecompanion workbook Working Toward Strategic Change.

This nuts-and-bolts workbook is designed as a guide for members of strategic planning committees in higher education. The book is filled with information, tools, and visual material that complement the companion book Strategic Change in Colleges and Universities. This workbook offers a concise background to the strategic planning process and focuses on the ten critical steps of the process, from developing performance indicators through implementing, evaluating, and revising the strategic plan. Each section helps users work carefully and thoughtfully through the tasks of assembling, interpreting, and making decisions about critical information relating to the process.

This is the story about an alliance between two families that saved the land and preserved the living ''ohana by heroic commitment to what it is to be Hawaiian. Over two centuries, the continuity in family leadership and the persistent use of education and partnership are woven into the ''Ohana''s tapestry of life. What emerged is an uncommon alliance that endures to this day. The kanakas overcame illness, an austere new religion and the loss of their lands and birthrights, in the Great Mahele of 1848. Many feel the Hawaiians are a dying race. The future challenge for the Hawaiians and the goal is to pass on the culture and empower today''s kanakas to not lose their identity in the face of changing social and economic processes. The ''ohana and the ''aina are the tools kanakas have, to give lyrics to the silence of hope. Education is the tool for that hope.