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 being questioned by students, parents and politicians. How do you balance academic values and market forces? The paper below, written by William F. Massy, Professor Emeritus and Former […]
READ MORESetting 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 education institutions. Good Governance Needed In these sessions, attendees considered how they can redesign and implement new business practices, overcome resistance to institutional change, and […]
READ MOREIntroduction 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 […]
READ MOREI’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 […]
READ MOREI’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 […]
READ MOREDefining a model’s scope before beginning to build it may be the difference between developing a useable, defendable and pertinent model that can answer multiple operational and management questions, and that of a model that may struggle to be relevant and robust 12 months down the track. What does a scoping study involve? A scoping […]
READ MOREWow! I found out this morning that I can use my iPhone as a remote control for PowerPoint presentations….so I apologise in advance to any clients that I’m presenting to in the next few weeks…you will no doubt be my guinea pigs 🙂 Talking about clients, many of Pilbara Group’s university clients have asked the […]
READ MOREIf so, we would like to talk to you. We are looking to interview organizations who are currently modelling their carbon emissions from a Management Accounting perspective, rather than statutory reporting perspective. We are currently researching best/common practice at organizations globally. CAM-I (Consortium of Advanced Management – International) is an international not-for-profit collaborative forum of […]
READ MOREAt the moment in Australia and the US there is currently little real incentive for any organization to manage or understand its overall carbon footprint, except if it is physically emitting global warming gases and comes under Scope 1 emissions or is a large energy user and falls under Scope 2 emissions. Scope 1 Emissions […]
READ MOREWe have recently formed a Sustainability* Interest Group at the Consortium of Advanced Management, International (CAM-I) and want to share some of our general research with the Higher Education community. We have also drafted a white paper titled “Carbon, Cost & Profitability – Practical suggestions to create an auditable carbon footprint/emissions profile.” If you would […]
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