Guest host Tim Renick, Georgia State University’s senior vice president for student success, talks with the University of Wisconsin’s Maury Cotter, who is a nationally recognized expert on strategic planning for colleges and universities. Renick and Cotter discuss the keys to developing and implementing a successful strategic plan that can inspire a college or university community and get its members committed to working together to pursue a common vision. Cotter is the co-founder and past-president of the Network for Change and Continuous Innovation in Higher Education (www.ncci-cu.org ), an organization that fosters collaboration among academic institutions.