Tough Times for University Chief Academic Officers, but help is available

Introduction The survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers (CAOs) was recently released and is available at http://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2013/02/14/2013-inside-higher-ed-survey-chief-academic-officers. The survey covers a range of issues that CAOs in the United States have concerns about or they believe are in need of attention within their institution. The objective of this paper is not revisit each […]

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Great News! – Demand for higher education is growing. So why are US universities suffering financially?

I’ve read a lot lately across a range of topics on higher education and wanted to bring together a number of themes into one post.  Let’s start with all the good news.  Demand for higher education is increasing and is seen to be important, in a recent survey by Gallup and the Lumina Foundation they found […]

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How the university predictive model works

Animated Overview You can watch a quick two minute overview of the predictive model here: http://youtu.be/eWWQ0exP9-0  Conventional Budgeting A university is really an array of interacting organisations that not only provide services to staff and / or students but also receive services from other areas of the university. Let’s say, for example, a faculty requests an […]

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Of course MOOCs are cheaper than traditional classrooms… aren’t they?

I’ve been reading a lot of articles about MOOCs and online courses versus good old fashioned classroom based learning. In a recent article this week in the Australian Financial Review, Brad Wheeler, CIO of the 110,000-student Indiana University was discussing the four models of online delivery: the “flipped classroom” where course content is available online but […]

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