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Assessing Your Higher Ed Institution’s Strategic Positioning

The challenges facing higher education institutions are monumental. It is clear that academic business models are struggling to keep up with the enrollment declines and cost escalations that have resulted in severe financial pressures. The global … [Read More...]

Published on April 12, 2021 | Written by Dr. Elmore Alexander

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 news is replete with stories of institutional rollbacks and the elimination of academic programs. Perhaps m… [Read More...]

Published on April 28, 2021 | Written by Steven Ralston, Ph.D.

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 this is no doubt often the case, it is not always so. Sometimes there are important lessons for us that emanate from our stude… [Read More...]

Published on May 10, 2021 | Written by Dr. Elmore Alexander and Dr. Michael Ginzberg

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 should drive both the assessment of current programming and the development of program growth. Competition in h… [Read More...]

Published on May 18, 2021 | Written by Dr. Elmore Alexander

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