Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 commits the University to closing every tied allocation with a sealed figure and the nearest guess, recorded in a public register against a four-cell framework.
The Strategic Plan 2026-2031 borrows the club quiz night's tiebreak for every contested car bay, room and bench
From the first review cycle of 2027, two applicants who stand level for a car bay, a tutorial room or a laboratory bench will be separated by a number written down the day before and kept in an envelope. That is the central commitment of the Strategic Plan 2026-2031, which takes its method from the way a suburban club settles a tied quiz night, and which the University is glad to place in the hands of every applicant.
Ties have always been settled somewhere, usually in a corridor. The plan moves the settling to a table where everyone can see the envelope.
— Dr Renke Sabel, Senior Lecturer and Convenor, Indicator Commons
The plan sorts each applicant into one of four named cells, Carried, Stranded, Rescued and Spectating, according to how they stood after the scored rounds and how near their guess came to the sealed figure. The cell is entered on the allocation record, and every figure and every guess is kept in a standing Guess Register maintained by the Indicator Commons and open to the whole University community. Partner clubs are invited to receive envelopes, tally boards and answer keys for their own evenings.
Dr Osei Vandermeer, Research Fellow and Convenor of the Review Cadence Observatory, which will hold the figures, said the Observatory had never before been entrusted with anything so small and so folded.
The plan rests on published research from across the School of Continuous Improvement and the School of Emergent Priorities, and reflects the University’s continuing regard for the halls where the practice was refined. The full Strategic Plan is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.t8wq4n.