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Events

Financial Performance Collaborative

March 22, 2023

Thank you for participating in EAB’s Financial Performance Collaborative.
You now have the opportunity to register for up to three modules of the Financial Performance Collaborative, based on your institutional priorities and team capacity across the next three months. As a reminder, each module will require an Implementation Leader (IL). Sessions are best suited for Chief Business Officers and Provosts.

EAB IGNITED

March 9, 2023

Please join us this fall for EAB IGNITED where we will bring together Presidents, Provosts, Chief Business Officers, and Heads of Strategy in closed-door, role specific groups followed by cross-cabinet working sessions with peers from other institutions. EAB will lead you and your peers through a series of case profiles and interactive workshops designed to activate learning around our latest organizational effectiveness research and the ramifications for the Higher Ed landscape.

Research and Services

How Colleges are Tackling the Growing Childcare Crisis

February 14, 2023

This EAB study provides strategies and tactics higher education leaders can implement to support faculty and staff caregivers.

Higher Ed Employment Website Checklist

January 17, 2023

Employment websites serve as a gateway to the application and hiring process at your institution. And given heightened competition for talent, especially with out-of-sector organizations, it is more critical than ever to proactively articulate why applicants should choose your institution over other employers.

The Right Way to Engage with Your Institutional Heritage

October 25, 2022

This resource provides step-by-step guidance to assist colleges and universities in their efforts towards institutional reckoning and healing.

EAB IgnitED: On-Demand Materials

September 27, 2022

Access the on-demand materials from our EAB IgnitED sessions, which bring together provosts, chief business officers, and chiefs of strategy for closed-door discussions and cross-cabinet working groups.

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Quick Reads

Rethinking the academic affairs organizational structure

March 2, 2022

There are some considerations for rethinking the academic structure: functional alignment, institutional priorities, strategic altitude, and provost’s individual priorities. The provost needs to need to balance functional alignment with institutional and individual priorities. There are of course many other considerations such as timing, change management, and communications.

How academic units can show alignment with and measure progress towards university goals

March 2, 2022

This blog explores how one of EAB’s rising higher education leaders fellows created a strategic plan data model. This model was used to evaluate goal progression and produce succinct reports showing CCI’s alignment with university goals.

Fiscal literacy for department chairs

March 2, 2022

While management of financial resources is one of their top responsibilities, often department chairs who are charged with stewardship of a significant portion of the university’s resources are provided the least amount of training to do so.

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Roadmaps

Create High Impact International Partnerships

June 3, 2021

Create a Community College Pipeline to Place Students in Right-Fit Careers

December 17, 2019

Develop Student-Centered Well-Being Support

December 16, 2019

Facilitate Student-Centered Course Redesign

December 9, 2019

Scale Experiential Learning and Career Development

December 9, 2019

Minimize Financial Attrition

December 3, 2019

Increase Faculty Diversity and Inclusivity on Campus

December 2, 2019

Address Food and Housing Insecurity on Campus

October 21, 2019

Manage Campus Climate Flashpoints

October 1, 2019

Improve Recruitment of Underrepresented Students

September 19, 2019

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Managing Director

David Attis

Managing Director, Research

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