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Higher Education Blog Series
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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The Partnership Option
A university explores partnerships as a middle ground between its current state and a cost reduction effort that would eliminate programs and services.
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Higher Education Webinars
Reimagining Higher Education Series: Leadership and Change Management Skills
Regardless of the strategy an institution pursues, its leadership will have to cultivate and support capabilities in transparency, collaboration, alignment, and flexibility. This session focuses on tactics to build these capabilities and their central role in managing change within the institution.
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Reimagining Higher Education Series: Strategic Options for Affiliation
This session will look at affiliation options through the perspectives of organizations seeking to merge or divest their holdings, and organizations seeking new opportunities through acquisition. Topics will include possible affiliation models, cultural considerations, and other factors that influence the success of an affiliation.
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Reimagining Higher Education Series: Tools for Reimagining Higher Education
As institutions turn their future vision into reality, they will need a toolbox that includes integrated strategic and financial planning, treasury and capital management, administrative assessment and design, academic product mix planning, and communications.
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Reimagining Higher Education Series: Strategic Options for Transformation
Administrative and curriculum redesign will be the focus of this session, with conversation focused on strategies to improve efficiencies, identify cost-sharing opportunities, and seek partners to improve both course content and the range of modalities through which it is offered.
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Grow and Sustain Curriculum with Online and Nontraditional Education
As the population of traditional college and university students declines, institutions must seek new opportunities to grow and diversify revenues. Watch to learn more.
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Higher Education Articles
Liquidity in Higher Education: Cash versus Investments
As cash is invested, an institution incurs more risk that cash will not be available when it is needed. Read our recommendations on balancing these risks.
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Liquidity in Higher Education: Cash Modeling Do’s and Don’ts
PART 3 OF A SUSTAINING HIGHER ED BLOG SERIES Sustaining Higher Ed is a monthly blog dedicated to helping college administrators and board trustees lead their organizations toward...
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Liquidity in Higher Education: Measures and Metrics for Budgeting and Planning
ow much cash do we have, and is it enough? Clear and coordinated responses to these questions are critical. Read more.
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Liquidity in Higher Education: Setting the Table for All Stakeholders
This is the first in a four-part series of posts designed to assist higher education CFOs as they manage and communicate their institution’s cash position. Read more!
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Financial Modeling for Your Online Product Mix Beyond the Fall 2020 Term
Almost all colleges and universities had initiated some level of activity around online education before the COVID-19 crisis struck. Read more on how to financial model for the fall and beyond.
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Optimizing the Summer 2020 Session in the Age of COVID-19
As the coronavirus continues to cloud the horizon for colleges and universities, higher education leaders find themselves needing to plan for new uncertainties. Read more.
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Interview: Eugene Sunshine on Financial Leadership in Times of Crisis
Eugene Sunshine retired from his position as Senior Vice President for Business and Finance at Northwestern University in 2014. With almost 30 years’ experience in higher education...
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Financial Modeling for an Online Fall 2020 Term
Given the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, colleges and universities are already considering that courses may need to remain remote for all or part of the fall term, and perhaps beyond. Read more.
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