Articles from the Pilbara team on higher education costs, margins, benchmarks, budgeting and AI.
128 articles
Lea Patterson
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns…
Lea Patterson
I’m going to take a different approach with this post today. Many of my posts have focused on the negative things occurring in the Higher Education sector, things like reduction in state and federal…
Lea Patterson
This year we held our inaugural University Strategic Decision Making conference in Melbourne on the 3rd and 4th of April for our client and non-client universities. With 14 institutions in attendance…
Lea Patterson
The higher education industry and its observers have wrung hands over rising costs for years. While there are many reasons for escalating costs, there is at least one that higher education leadership…
Lea Patterson
Universities globally are under increasing financial strain. Government funding is decreasing, competition for students is increasing, tuition is rising and the true value of higher education is…
Lea Patterson
Imagine being able to increase revenues without increasing the cost base! This topic is bound to create a lot of robust discussion, which is encouraged and it should be discussed. We are talking…
Lea Patterson
Setting the Pace in Indy Indiana’s capital city hosted the NACUBO 2013 Annual Meeting, where business officers completed some victory laps in learning about the innovations vital to today’s higher…
Lea Patterson
Introduction The survey of College and University Chief Academic Officers (CAOs) was recently released and is available at…
Lea Patterson
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…
Lea Patterson
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…
