A common issue faced by universities around the globe is improving the retention of existing students. How much should be invested in retaining students? At what point is more money being spent than is being gained by retaining the student? Retention is a hot topic and universities spend a lot of time and effort in […]
READ MOREUniversities are constantly jugging resources – research often brings the rankings and brand while teaching brings the bulk of the predictable revenue. Things will get tougher in Australia under a proposed new CGS funding regime that includes a 2.5% efficiency dividend (which will erode the base funding going forward) and the potential for 7.5% of […]
READ MOREIt is not uncommon for schools to receive pressure to address their low enrollment courses (units). They are told that they shouldn’t be running courses with fewer than, say, ten students in them. There is a myriad of reasons why any individual course should be maintained due to the academic benefits it brings to the […]
READ MOREWe want to provide a series of articles explaining how you can actually use the outputs of the models to manage your universities. This article was written by Michelle Brooke and looks at the Whale Chart for courses as a starting point for analysis. Every university will teach courses (subjects) that contribute positively to the […]
READ MOREThe Problem How can a university allocate its resources, and especially its unrestricted funds, to best serve the academic mission while ensuring financial sustainability? Academic and financial officers find resource allocation difficult and time consuming because universities are extremely complex and highly decentralized organizations, which are driven by mission-based values rather than a financial bottom […]
READ MOREBill Gates recently presented at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) Annual Meeting, where he spoke about America’s greatest asset being the Higher Education system. There were a number of key points that came out of his speech and Q&A session. Dramatic changes are coming to colleges, it’s no longer good […]
READ MOREIn Flanders the recently formed coalition government has decided to cut the higher education budget by 5% and has given the universities two options to absorb this cut: reduce your operating budget by a same percentage or increase student fees to recoup the cut. The latter would effectively mean more than doubling fees from €600 […]
READ MOREThere 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 […]
READ MORE“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; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — […]
READ MOREI’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 funding, more competition for students, reduction in endowments, the end of traditional education as we know it. All doom and gloom, […]
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