Higher Education Consulting
Disruptive forces are reshaping higher education in dramatic ways. We partner with you to develop strategies that protect your institution’s long-term financial health and viability.
We’ll Help You Strengthen Your Financial Position
Kaufman Hall offers college and university leaders a range of expertise and solutions to optimize performance and organizational decision making and sustained financial performance. We’ve helped colleges and universities across the nation with plans to adjust to higher education’s rapidly changing environment.
Strategic Planning for Colleges & Universities
Grow and diversify revenues through non-traditional academic programs and modalities
Explore opportunities to diversify curricula, optimize modalities, and grow revenues through academic mix, online and open learning, and partnerships.
Financial Processes and Planning
Optimize resource deployment to achieve mission objectives
Develop processes and plans for your institution that balance strategic objectives against resources and risks
Administrative Assessment and Design
Align people, processes, and information to drive transformative change
Assess and design an optimized future-state administrative model, including organizational design, staffing numbers, operating models, and leading practice business processes.
Overcome challenges. Realize your mission. Get started today improving your strategy and outcomes.
Treasury & Capital Management
Deploy treasury for competitive advantage
Manage treasury organization, processes, and deployment to gain competitive advantage.
Partnerships, Mergers, and Acquisitions
Leverage creative partnerships to strengthen business model
Align strategy and objectives and ensure mission, vision, and values guide the journey toward finding the right partner.
Featured Higher Education Insights
A Roadmap for the Future
With plans for an administrative restructuring finalized, a university completes its roadmap to financial sustainability. Some early successes help boost momentum.
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Making Difficult Decisions
With the need for further cost savings to ensure long-term financial viability, university leadership makes difficult decisions on underperforming programs.
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Reimagining Higher Education On-Demand Webinars
This on-demand webinar series focuses on the task of reimagining higher education, with sessions on strategies for growth, transformation, and affiliation, as well as sessions on the tools and leadership skills required.
Our Higher Education Practice Leaders
Larenda Mielke, Vice President
Larenda Mielke is a Vice President in the Higher Education division of Kaufman Hall’s Strategic and Financial Planning practice. She has extensive leadership experience in higher education in the areas of strategy, curriculum and program development, and more.
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