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Toolkit for Building a Tiered Financial Contingency Plan
This toolkit will help business leaders formulate or update their financial contingency plans with tactics applicable during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond.
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COVID-19 Administrative Cost Containment Playbook
The compendium is a picklist to help executives evaluate and choose the cost containment tactics best suited for their institutions.
Hiring a process improvement professional
Consider hiring a process improvement coordinator to lead the efforts. Explore example job summaries, responsibilities, qualifications, and more.
It’s time to ask tough questions about college and university athletic programs
Absent an effective strategy to review and realign the athletics portfolio, institutions risk the depletion of their financial and reputational resources, which is being accelerated due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
How to Improve Faculty Diversity Through Inclusive Hiring and Retention Practices
David Pluviose, executive editor of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, shares steps universities should take to ensure faculty diversity.
Transforming university finance and operations strategy in response to COVID-19
COVID-19 has exacerbated existing threats to higher education institutions’ financial stability—including enrolment volatility, value-for-money concerns, and an expensive delivery model. Discover the types of transformative changes institutions are considering in response to pressures on university finance and operations amid COVID-19.
FY21 institutional budgets are under pressure. Here’s how SFOs are reining in costs and finding new revenue sources.
This article documents the scale and impact of FY21 budget cuts to date. It also catalogs what cost-containment tactics (and a few revenue-generating ideas) Facilities leaders have taken or plan to take soon.
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Reinventing Higher Ed in the Shadow of COVID-19
Higher Education is reeling from the financial and business model shocks that have been delivered by the coronavirus pandemic. As institutional leaders grapple with addressing the short-term operating issues necessary to keep running, longer-term questions of strategy and viability are taking on increasing urgency.
The Essential Guide to Cost Containment Strategies for Higher Education
As colleges and universities struggle to set budgets for the upcoming fiscal year because of the uncertainty caused by COVID-19, many are looking for concrete guidance on how to reduce operating costs.
