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
Liquidity Optimization Is Both an Opportunity and an Imperative for Higher Ed Institutions
Liquidity optimization offers colleges and universities a significant financial opportunity. It also is an imperative to meet the mounting financial challenges and risks that higher education faces today.
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Webinar: A Small Liberal Arts College's Success Story
Listen to a conversation with members of the leadership team from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, to learn from their experience on how you may solve for many of the challenges facing liberal arts colleges today.
Webinar
A Passion for Student Success Creates a Campus Leader
The newly appointed Provost and Chief Academic Officer at Westminster College in Missouri shares insights on her path to a leadership position, including her advice to “be a humble learner and a bold thinker.”
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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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Jason Sussman
Jason Sussman has provided planning and financial advisory services for healthcare providers and higher education institutions nationwide for more than 35 years. He is a leader in Kaufman Hall’s Strategic and Financial Planning practice.
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Disha Venkatesan, Vice President
Disha Venkatesan is a Vice President in Kaufman Hall’s Higher Education practice based in Charlottesville.
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