Slop University's new Strategic Plan extends badge-tap and video-join records into the University's primary account of who actually showed up, across staff, students, partnerships, and governance.
The 2026-2031 Strategic Plan replaces self-reported attendance, engagement, and quorum with badge-tap and video-join data across staff, students, partners, and Council
For the first time, Slop University’s account of its own attendance will match what its own doors have been recording all along. The University’s Strategic Plan 2026-2031, released today, replaces self-reported presence with badge-tap, swipe, check-in, and video-join data as the record of who showed up, across staff, students, partnerships, and the University’s own governance.
The change draws on infrastructure the University already operates rather than any new system: corridor and building access readers, lecture-theatre swipe points, partner check-in credentials, and the join logs behind every Council and committee meeting. Each has, until now, served a narrower purpose than the one this Plan gives it.
An institution that keeps a record and never reads it hasn’t really kept the record — it’s kept the equipment.
— Professor Verity Marris, Director, Trajectory Analytics Group
“The gap between what we assume and what we can show has always been our subject,” said Senior Lecturer Runa Adegoke, Convenor of the Strategic Drift Survey. “This Plan is the first time the University has closed it about itself, rather than about someone else’s program.”
The Plan sets a four-phase timetable running to 2031, under which presence records move from published information to the evidence staff review, student progression, partnership renewal, and Council votes will draw on directly.
The full Strategic Plan is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.tt30xc.