Strategic Planning in Institutions of Higher Education: A Case Study of Sakarya University

A participatory and transparent management understanding, the effective and efficient use of resources, performance-based assessment and budgeting as well as the rapid developments experienced in informatics and communication technologies have obliged institutions of higher education to prepare their strategic plans both due to a legal obligation (Law No. 5018) and in order to realize their institutional transformation.Sakarya University, which aims to materialize excellence as an institutional culture and which is continually improving and developing itself for this purpose, set off for its journey of excellence with the ISO activities in 2001 for the improvement of its administrative and support services and since 2003, it has been carrying on it with the Total Quality Management activities at the level of all academic and administrative units. This study deals with the strategic planning studies of Sakarya University that it launched with the slogan “Our vision will be our future”.