Resources for Succession Planning

Various articles to help you plan your succession plan.

UC Berkeley. (n.d.). Succession planning for academic and Administrative Departments. Succession Planning for Academic and Administrative Departments | People & Culture. https://hr.berkeley.edu/grow/grow-your-impact/services-offered/succession-planning-academic-and-administrative-departments

Keller, Kristina, "Building the Case for Succession Planning in Higher Education: A Study of Succession Planning Pilots within the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System" (2018). Culminating Projects in Higher Education Administration. 25.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/hied_etds/25

Parfitt, Christopher. (2017). Creating a succession-planning instrument for educational leadership. 18. 21. 

Deitte, L. A., Mian, A. Z., Mullins, M. E., & Desser, T. S. (2021). Looking ahead: Succession planning for Education leadership roles. Journal of the American College of Radiology, 18(12), 1678–1680. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2021.08.015

Cruickshank, V. (2018). Capacity building and succession planning. Open Journal of Leadership, 07(01), 49–56. https://doi.org/10.4236/ojl.2018.71004

Hannover Research. (2014, October). Best practices in succession planning. https://www.hanoverresearch.com/media/Best-Practices-in-Succession-Planning.pdf 

Additionally, the University of South Carolina has well-developed policies and tools related to succession planning, which may be useful to educators from other institutions:  https://sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/human_resources/talent_management/succession_planning/index.php