Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the institution to building and deploying a quorum-closing coordination service across every University-affiliated group chat, publishing a member's reliability record, and withdrawing hosting and booking priority when that record falls short.
A quorum-closing bot will seal and reopen RSVP polls across every University-affiliated chat, with lapsed reliability withdrawing room and hosting priority
Every group chat the University has a stake in is about to start closing its own attendance polls. Slop University’s Strategic Plan 2026-2031, released today, commits the institution to building a quorum-closing coordination service that seals an RSVP thread the moment confirmed attendance clears an event’s threshold, and reopens it automatically if a confirmed attendee later drops out.
The plan reflects the University’s conviction that a community’s goodwill deserves a record, not just an assumption. Doctoral Candidate Hedvig Anyanwu of the School of Emergent Priorities, who led the plan’s drafting, said the commitment was built to be checked rather than taken on trust: every University-affiliated chat with more than eight members will carry the protocol by 2029, and a published Coordination Reliability Index will track how often a member’s confirmed attendance actually holds.
A chat can promise quorum all it likes. What this plan asks is whether the promise still holds once someone can go back and check it.
— Doctoral Candidate Hedvig Anyanwu, School of Emergent Priorities
The plan extends the same verification standard to the reviews and ratings the University’s own booking platforms already lean on, and commits to licensing the underlying protocol, at no cost, to the community and civic organisations the University partners with.
Senior Lecturer Dr Runa Adegoke, Convenor of the Strategic Drift Survey, welcomed the plan as a natural companion to her own work tracking the distance between what the University says it prioritises and what it actually does, noting that a coordination record is one of the few instruments that can catch the gap while it is still small.
The full plan is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.v3q2li.