Slop University's Strategic Plan 2026-2031 sets an institution-wide posture on what the University charges, how its prices are displayed, and how the people who pay them decide.
Every charge the University sets, from a short course to an hour of parking, is to have an owner, a rationale and a review date by 2031
A cup of coffee, an hour of parking, a page of printing and a gown hired for one afternoon have each been given a place in Slop University’s strategic direction. The Slop University Strategic Plan 2026-2031, released today, takes as its organising commitment that every price the University sets will be a considered price.
I have been asked more than once what the plan will do to the price of a coffee. It is a fair question, and the plan is the University’s way of becoming an institution that is comfortable being asked it.
— Dr Torun Ezeigwe, Senior Lecturer and Director, Master of Applied Measurement
The plan sets five focus areas: a coherent price architecture, legibility at the point of decision, understanding those who pay, stability with notice and symmetry, and price literacy for every graduate. Under them, a single Schedule of Considered Prices will bring the University’s charges into one view, a display convention will govern how a price is shown, and a Campus Price Encounter Study will follow how members of the community meet the prices in front of them. The plan does not set the level of any individual price.
Dr Ezeigwe convened the academic working group that advised on the plan, with Dr Solveig Adeyemi, Lecturer in the School of Continuous Improvement, and Dr Petra Umbile, Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Emergent Priorities. “The University has always set its prices with care,” Dr Adeyemi said. “What the period ahead offers is the opportunity to set them with care in the same place.”
The plan stands as an expression of the attention the University extends to the smallest of its dealings, and draws on six of its published studies of prices in ordinary settings.
The full plan is available from the University’s research repository under an open licence, doi:10.5555/slop.zkp4p6.