Financial Performance Collaborative for Provosts
EAB’s Financial Performance Collaborative will help you safeguard future spending or fund emerging priorities through resource allocation savings.
Registration for this collaborative is now closed. Dates for 2027 will be announced soon!
Higher education has seen its fair share of disruptions and crises in the past decade. In the midst of responding to an ever-changing environment, it is easy to overlook basic hygiene necessary to ensure good stewardship of academic and administrative resources. Without periodic review and financial health checks, institutions are expending resources in ways that may have once made sense but are no longer aligned with the needs and priorities of the day.
Challenges to making progress
- Program assessment goals are misunderstood and conflated with program prioritization cuts, leading to a needlessly political process
- Infrequent program assessment leads to delayed and reactive decision making
- Efficiency opportunities are often overlooked among programs with strong enrollments
“Typical program prioritization efforts focus too heavily on cutting programs and immediately draw the skepticism of faculty. We need a better way to comprehensively monitor and manage the health of our program portfolio.”
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About the collaborative
EAB’s Financial Performance Collaborative will help you identify opportunities to recapture savings from areas that are typically overlooked in conversations about resource allocation. This is critical in financially tough environments but is no less important in periods of stability where these savings can help you safeguard future spending or fund emerging priorities.
EAB’s new collaborative experience will help you:
- Build confidence & motivate change on critical campus priorities with step-by-step guidance through essential analyses
- Expand your skills and capacity with 1:1 expert coaching and project management support
- Accelerate best-practice implementation in an expert-led format that allows you to focus on the most critical priority areas for your campus right now
Learn more about the collaborative from our experts
Partner spotlight: How the University of Colorado Denver transformed program assessment
The University of Colorado Denver joined the Financial Performance Collaborative for Provosts while advancing a broader Academic Transformation initiative to strengthen academic operations amid growing sector headwinds. Through expert-led sessions and peer mentoring, campus leaders developed a more collaborative, data-informed approach to program check-ins.
After participating in the Collaborative, leaders facilitated campuswide workshops and shared training materials and draft templates to support the launch of an annual program check-in process, equipping deans to identify next steps for program improvement.