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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

Building an Anti-Burnout Workplace Culture in Academic Affairs: On-Demand Materials

March 2, 2023

Explore the materials from this two-part series on ‘Building an Anti-Burnout Workplace Culture in Academic Affairs,’ which convened academic leaders in virtual forums to discuss the long-term strategic importance of bolstering support and fulfilling their role as an academic leader that builds a workplace that actively combats burnout.

Overcoming Historical and Systemic Barriers to Institutional Racism

July 25, 2022

Becoming an anti-racist institution involves conscious, active, and ongoing effort. In this webinar, participants will learn about the anti-racist behaviors and actions that span across unit and function to transform the experiences of ethnic and diverse populations on campus.

Compendium of inclusive tenure and promotion policy

June 2, 2022

This compendium features 8 institutional examples of equitable approaches to tenure evaluation. When adopted widely, these efforts can help improve BIPOC faculty retention.

Design policies to retain and support BIPOC faculty

April 29, 2022

EAB brought together provosts and chief diversity officers to discuss promotion, tenure, and workload policies for BIPOC faculty retention and career advancement. Explore the takeaways from the sessions that you can implement on your campus.

Quick Reads

Why your higher ed DEIJ initiatives fail—and 3 ways to drive success

June 14, 2022

While higher education institutions have recently made major investments in DEIJ initiatives, these efforts often fail because they do not address underlying causes of specific equity gaps. Competing priorities among cabinet leaders and uncoordinated initiatives further exacerbate the problem. To help, we created the Institutional Strategy Index for DEIJ.

3 critical lessons from campus racial flashpoints that we ignore

March 8, 2022

Caught up in the controversy of the moment, leaders can overlook a valuable opportunity to use campus racial flashpoints as a starting point to investigate their institution’s racial legacy and use this knowledge to improve the current campus climate.

3 common challenges with academic program assessment

March 4, 2022

EAB’s Financial Sustainability Collaborative has worked with over 100 schools to help them structure their academic program assessment process, and that experience has provided us with some observations about the common challenges confronting schools undertaking academic program assessment.

Roadmaps

Create High Impact International Partnerships

June 3, 2021

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

December 17, 2019

Adopt a Proactive Approach to Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Funding

December 17, 2019

Develop Student-Centered Well-Being Support

December 16, 2019

Build a New Budget Model that Advances Your Institution’s Strategic Goals

December 9, 2019

Improve Student Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

December 9, 2019

Facilitate Student-Centered Course Redesign

December 9, 2019

Scale Experiential Learning and Career Development

December 9, 2019

Design Effective Academic Department Reviews

December 9, 2019

Minimize Financial Attrition

December 3, 2019

Experts

Alexa Silverman

Associate Director

Colin Koproske

Managing Director, Research Development

David Bevevino

Senior Director, Strategic Research

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