Strategic Planning In Higher Education

Higher learning institutions have a responsibility of ensuring that students are being catered for as the latter face diverse challenges such as alcohol and substance abuse, among others within and outside the campuses. This can be done through creating a relatively comfortable environment that helps in resolving the challenges likely to arise. For instance, a lot of input in terms of resources such as facilities, skilled human resource, technology, space, inter alia is essential for any higher learning institution. In order for all these to work in tandem, the institutions need to have strategic plan for counseling and management programs that will formulate policies, rules and regulations that will, for instance, help alcohol and substance …show more content…
Planning has been the central point for most successful programs and that is why this article provides a critique on why universities and other institutions should utilize it to assist students. (Vas & Koruth, 2013) argue that productive planning helps to minimize unwarranted uncertainties such rise of substance abuse among students which might result to an uncomfortable campus environment. A
FOSTERING A CARING AND PRODUCTIVE CAMPUS3 productive campus environment according to the two can only be achieved through ensuring the institution is offering quality education and innovation opportunities which will help students avoid activities that lead to substance abuse. (Rund, 2008) on the other hand delves deeper on some of the challenges that students in higher learning institutions students are likely to experience while in campus, some of them being substance abuse and insecurity. He goes ahead to provide preventive measures for the challenges and viable solutions those institutions can advocate, for safety of the students. …show more content…
The problem of alcohol and substance has been on the surge in campuses. This calls for intervention programs such as counseling programs and diverse entrepreneurial opportunities that students can engage in. Consequently, existence of online support groups where students can share their problems among themselves is needed. This will help in transforming learning institutions from mere formal education entities full of depressing activities to spaces where they can find something meaningful. The programs should promote integration among all stakeholders in order to promote sharing of information, ideas and help in problem solving. The institutions should also ensure that all feel safe from social vices as the latter might corrupt students and eventually compromise productivity and quality of education in general. Consequently, the institutions should work together with local security authorities who can help in tracking down sources of these drugs for the safety of the