EAB Research
Professional and Academic Services Resource Hub
EAB provides in-depth research and services for university leaders to meet their most pressing challenges, from driving a world-class student experience to expanding global research partnerships. Explore the Professional and Academic Services Resource Hub for all the tools and insights you can access as part of your EAB partnership.
Five ways to get the most out of your EAB partnership:
- Contact your institution’s Strategic Leader to discuss how your EAB partnership can support you and your team.
- Browse our Research Curated for You, which includes in-depth studies and toolkits designed to help you implement changes on your campus.
- Learn about our current research initiatives and how your institution can get involved.
- Sign up for a partner service or audit—our team will assess current policies or practices and give you tailored recommendations.
- Register for an event to hear the latest insights from our research and connect with other leaders from across the sector.
For comprehensive partners, find more resources in our terrain hubs
Research Curated for You
Click on each topic below to explore research studies, toolkits, and more.
Student Experience and Success
- Infographic: Meeting the Needs and Motivations of Working Professional Students infographic
- Executive Brief: Adapting Student Career Development for the Gen Z Era
- Infographic: 8 ways to court the cost-conscious international student
- Infographic: 5 ways to increase academic staff efficacy in student success
- Research Report: Total student experience: a holistic approach to addressing today’s student expectations
- Infographic: Navigating the Student Journey with an Experiential Course Map
- Tool: Enhance the Student Experience and Career Readiness with Course and Major Maps
- Infographic: Six Aspirations for Designing the Modern Student Experience
- Infographic: Five Components of Student Belonging
- Student Belonging Resource Centre
- Infographic: Barriers to Student Success and Attainment
- Infographic: Gen Z Student Personas
- Infographic: Four Tactics to Support First-in-Family Students
Campus Operations
- Executive Brief: Aligning Institutional Resource Allocation Models to Strategic Goals
- Tool: Cost Containment Playbook
- Infographic: Unlocking AI’s Potential in Higher Education
- Infographic: 10 Trends to Guide University Leaders in Growing Industry Partnerships
- Diagnostic: Cost, Efficiency, and Operations Self-Assessment
- Infographic: Campus 2030
- Resource: 3 ways to keep pace with growing sustainability strategies in higher ed
- Resource: Compendium of Sustainability Initiatives in Higher Education
- Study: Sustainability Action Plans for Colleges and Universities
- Roadmap: Boost Process Improvement Success by Starting with the Right Projects
- Resource: Shared Services Primer
- Cost Containment Resource Centre
Academic Portfolio Management
- Infographic: 14 Metrics for Adaptive Course Planning
- Launching an Online Education Programme? 5 Questions and Recommendations from EAB Experts
- Infographic: Designing an Online Education Strategy–and How EAB Can Help
- Research Report: MOOCs as a recruitment tool: the University of York’s approach to ‘try-before-you-buy’ courses
- Blog: Stem programme proliferation by actively managing your campus’ portfolio
- Tool: 38 Approaches to Maximize Instructional Productivity
- Infographic: Mistakes and Solutions in New Course Launches
- Study: Academic Vital Signs
Institutional Strategy
- Infographic: 10 Issues Facing University Leaders Across the Sector
- Executive Briefing: Dynamic Strategy
- Diagnostic: Dynamic Strategy Diagnostic
- Research Report: For digital transformation success, start with a digital strategy that advances the university mission
- Diagnostic: Digital Transformation Capabilities Assessment
- Infographic: Signals of Digital Transformation Success
- Infographic: Five Hidden Enemies to University Strategy
- Research Report: Explore new international opportunities and expand existing transnational collaborations
- Infographic: The Enrolment-Optimised University Strategy
- Executive Briefing: Five Threats of Silos
- Infographic: 3 Roadblocks to Setting Useful Goals in Strategic Planning
Strategic Talent Management
- Infographic: 6 Elements of an Inclusive Job Advertisment
- Employee Recruitment and Retention Resource Centre
- Tool: Higher Ed Job Description Checklist
- Partner Service: Remote Work Policy Audit
- White Paper: Guide to Behavioural-Based Interviewing
- Infographic: 105 Tactics to Improve Employee Engagement
- Infographic: The Business Case for Investing in Higher Education Talent (and Risks for Those Who Don’t)
- Executive Briefing: 5 Realities Reshaping Higher Education’s Competition for Talent
Current Research Initiatives
EAB partners have the opportunity to take part in our ongoing research by connecting one-on-one with experts for research interviews, serving as best-practice case studies, and more. We invite you to participate (or nominate someone on your campus to participate) in our current research initiatives:
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Enrolment Strategy Research Project
You are invited to participate in our research if you are involved in:
- Enrolment and recruitment strategy or operations (domestic and international)
- Student numbers planning/enrolment forecasting
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Navigating the Complexities of AI Adoption
Three focus areas:
- Governance – ethics and responsible AI, Privacy and Security, etc.
- Enablement – training and organisational capabilities, vendor management, communications, etc.
- Application – model selection, cost optimisation, tools and technical assets
Your Team
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Upcoming Events
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Roundtable
Foster Multicultural Inclusion on Campus
Student success is an equity issue and ensuring that students from all backgrounds succeed at university often requires proactive and intentional support of particular student populations, such as international students.
Roundtable
Shaping the Market In the Age of GenAI
This hour-long session will interrogate the current and future realities of GenAI's impact across industries and workplaces.
Roundtable
2025 AI Strategy Summit
The AI Strategy Summit will explore actionable strategies to integrate generative AI into the curriculum, foster campus-wide experimentation, establish robust AI governance, and evaluate your institution’s AI maturity.
Past Events
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On-Demand Webinar
Making the Most of Your EAB Research Partnership
You and your senior team are invited to join EAB for a 30-minute webinar that will help you unlock the full potential of your EAB research partnership across the year.
Roundtable
Case Studies of Universities Shifting to New Academic and Administrative Models
Increasing financial sustainability and operational efficiency are central to universities across the globe.
Roundtable
Embed Employability Across the Student Journey
One of the key reasons for criticism or debates around the value of higher education is a growing perception that university is no longer the best path to good jobs.
Partner Services
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Partner Service
Enterprise Data Management Collaborative
EAB's Enterprise Data Management Collaborative develops and implements an enterprise-wide data strategy for higher ed institutions.
Partner Service
Achieve Your People and Workplace Culture Goals with Support of an EAB Presentation
Explore sample Partner Intensive topics focused on higher ed talent
Partner Service
AI Strategy Workshop for Higher Ed Cabinet Leaders
EAB's AI strategy workshop helps higher ed leaders craft a unique institutional AI strategy and navigate their most…
Research and Insights
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Infographic
10 difficult (but critical) decisions for achieving academic cost
10 difficult (but critical) decisions for achieving academic cost
savings goals
The infographic is designed to help provosts, deans, and CFOs make decisions about where and how to achieve…
Strategic Advisory Services
Tool
Employer Demand Profiles
These profiles provide a snapshot of the employer demand in each region of the U.S., U.K., and Canada…
Strategic Advisory Services
Research Report
The High Costs of Using Campus Space Inefficiently
Learn how the high costs of campus space and underutilization impact strategic priorities and can inform your institution's…
Strategic Advisory Services
Research Report
How Keele University Successfully Sustained a Large-Scale Organizational Transformation
Learn how Keele University implemented an institutional transformation that touched academic, student, and professional services—and what lessons every…
Strategic Advisory Services
Tool
Construction Kit for Faculty AI Resources
This toolkit for crafting a faculty AI resource repository includes three tools to engage faculty with AI in…
Strategic Advisory Services
Infographic
The difficult balancing act of being a department chair
This infographic helps department chairs understand their academic and administrative responsibilities and shares strategies to excel in leadership.
Deans Advisory Services
Infographic
What distinguishes high-ROI advancement shops?
Download the infographic today to learn which areas your institutions should focus on to improve your ROI.
Advancement Advisory Services
Insight Paper
The Great Opt-Out
This report examines different reasons for the great opt-out and identifies problems that enrollment leaders can realistically hope…
Enroll360
Research Report
Early AI Governance Trends at Colleges and Universities
We uncovered the first steps higher ed leaders are taking to approach AI governance and early wins from…
IT Strategy Advisory Services
Blogs
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Blog
Questions universities should be asking about recruitment strategy
Explore the questions U.K. and Irish higher education leaders should be asking about international student recruitment.
Higher Education Strategy Blog
Blog
How to address the student readiness crisis—and attract students to your teaching programs
The Student Readiness Crisis is multifaceted and requires support from stakeholders across K-12, higher ed, employers, and communities.
Adult Education Blog
Blog
Higher education’s top cost savings opportunities
Discover three must-do strategies for short- and long-term cost savings at colleges and universities.
Higher Education Strategy Blog