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"Preparing for Every Future: APPA’s New Governance Plan Aims for Strength, Agility, and Organizational Capacity"
Author: Mark Crawford
Published In: Facilities Manager
Date: July/August 2022

Recognizing the pressing need for a governing framework that is better structured to meet these ongoing challenges, APPA completed a review of its policies, practices, and bylaws in 2018 using member surveys and a comprehensive Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) evaluation. This included researching current governance models for nine other education associations, all selected from the Council of Higher Education Management Associations (CHEMA). This review of the governance structure was the capstone to the newly created visionary strategic framework, Preparing for Every Future, which upgrades/modernizes many established programs and leadership roles in APPA, as well as the allocation of financial resources. Among the changes is a reorganization of the Board of Directors, which upgrades and modernizes many established programs and leadership roles in APPA, as well as the allocation of financial resources. The end result of this in-depth and candid self-evaluation was the reorganization of the Board of Directors, which went into effect in July 2021. APPA reduced the size of the board and the number of board committees; transitioned from a member committee structure to a stakeholder/engagement group approach; permanently replaced the in-person annual conference with a virtual facilities summit; and added a new series of smaller, more intimate gatherings of in-person educational programs called Targeted Titles & Topics (T3 series).

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