Tag: Higher Education

The reality is that Universities and Colleges don’t cost enough!

There are a lot of articles, analysis and even a high profile documentary discussing the current problems with higher education, in particular the rapidly rising tuition, reduction in Government funding, increase in student debt, reduction in enrollments etc.  A lot of the discussion seems to revolve around factors that are external to the university or […]

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Benchmarks, Predictive Models and more at our University Strategic Decision Making Conference

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 we were very pleased with the turn out. At this point I would like to thank those that came and took two days out […]

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Transforming the Economics of Higher Education – Practical Guidance

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 has complete control over and could start addressing immediately. The fact of the matter is, there is almost a complete lack of visibility on how much […]

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Balancing Academic Values and Market Forces

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 […]

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Teaching Capacity – Improve margins with no cost increase

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 about understanding the capacity of the teaching environment so that schools maintain the optimum number of lecturers/teachers for the enrolled students. This […]

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Using Data Analytics to Achieve Financial Sustainability for Higher Education

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 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 […]

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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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