Higher Ed
How Can We Convince the Public That a College Degree is Still Worth It?
The Wall Street Journal and The Economist recently treated us to dueling perspectives on the value of higher education. The… Read More
How to Innovate Effectively Within Higher Education IT
The last three years have inflicted unprecedented costs on American higher education institutions, resulting in campus closures, refunded student fees,… Read More
Saving Millions of Dollars by a Thousand Cuts
If there were ever a time and circumstance in which the old saying about the Chinese character for “crisis”—consisting of… Read More
How to Evaluate the Potential of New Programs
It can be difficult to develop budgets for new programs that reflect actual revenues and expenses due to the complexities… Read More
Data-Based Program Analysis
Challenges to the viability of the US higher education model have grown significantly during the last 5 years. Demographic change… Read More
Decreasing Faculty Workload Without Increasing Instructional Costs
I was asked recently to provide advice on ways to reduce faculty teaching load without increasing instructional costs. Often this… Read More
Developing an Institutional Value Proposition
We have argued here and elsewhere that developing institutional consensus on a value proposition is critical to success. This consensus… Read More
A Lesson for Higher Ed from Industry—Smaller is Better and More Sustainable
As educators, we often think of the flow of learning as from us outwards—to our students, to practitioners, etc. While… Read More
Benchmarking for Aligning Non-academic Staffing with Institutional Needs
Institutional efficiency in higher education has never been more important than in our present and often turbulent environment. Indeed, the… Read More
Partnership, Merger, and Acquisition Are Not Dirty Words
This past month, another New England college announced it was closing at the end of the academic year. The announcement… Read More