Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 introduces the Exit Concordance Quadrant, which decides whether a vacated professional-services role is backfilled immediately or held for review.
The Strategic Plan 2026-2031 ties backfill approval to whether a departing employee's account matches their manager's
Slop University has released its Strategic Plan 2026-2031, and its clearest new commitment concerns not who the University hires but how it reads the people who leave. From 2026, every professional-services departure will be scored against a four-cell framework crossing the departing employee’s account of their exit with the record their manager has already filed — and the score, not a manager’s judgement, will decide how quickly the vacated role can be filled again.
An exit interview has always been treated as a courtesy. What changes is that the courtesy is now read against everything else the University already believed about the departure, and the University has to live with what it finds.
— Dr Bram Ntuli, Lecturer and Convenor of Improvement Grand Rounds in the School of Continuous Improvement
The Exit Concordance Quadrant, developed within the School of Continuous Improvement, sits alongside a wider commitment in the plan to bring the same discipline the University applies to its published research to its own shared instruments — dashboards, registers, and indicators alike — retiring each on a published schedule rather than an indefinite one. The commitment extends into University operations a line of research on standing review formats the School has pursued for close to a decade.
Dr Renke Sabel, Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Indicator Commons, welcomed the plan’s commitment to a published cross-school instrument register, saying it “gives every school a reason to know what the others are already measuring.”
The full Strategic Plan 2026-2031 is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.n5hvl3.