EAB Research

Strategic Advisory Services Resource Hub

Welcome to the Strategic Advisory Services Resource Hub! The resources in this hub are designed to serve your leadership team, direct reports, strategic task forces, committees, and teams as you seek to accelerate progress on core initiatives. We invite you to browse our library of research and insights, register for upcoming events, and sign up for partner services that provide custom assessments and recommendations.

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Areas of Inquiry

Strategic Advisory Services has many Areas of Inquiry where we conduct ongoing research to address your toughest challenges on campus and offer actionable advice. In each of the areas you’ll find tools for decision support, stakeholder education, and implementation of best practices.

Admin, Finance, and Operations

Deploy campus assets to advance institutional priorities

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Advancement

Ensure fundraising growth with our strategic and operational guidance

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Blueprint for Growth

Inform growth strategies across your portfolio

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice

Prioritize equity-related gaps and take action

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Dynamic Strategy

Embed agility, prioritize strategic bets, and articulate a differentiated value proposition

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IT Strategy

Shore up retention and build a more talent-resilient IT organization

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People and Workplace Culture

Build competitive applicant pools and hold on to top performers

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Professional and Adult Education

Lead campus innovation and market responsiveness in online, continuing ed, and other adult education

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Student Experience and Well-being

Safeguard student success and mental health

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Upcoming Events

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Roundtable

The Balancing Act of Free Speech, Civility, and Campus Safety

Spring's campus unrest consumed many leadership teams' energies as the immediacy of the situation crowded out bandwidth. The Fall's upcoming elections and expected disruptions threaten to do the same, yet the work of running the university and the necessity to advance strategic initiatives remain.

Webinar

Recapturing the “Return on Athletics” for Small Schools

While headlines about conference realignment and NIL only impact a small number of institutions, the tumultuous landscape for college athletics is not limited to the institutions or programs that make the news.

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From Backlog to Balance: Deferred Maintenance Strategies for Campus Leaders

After labor, physical space is the largest expense item on most campuses, and it has only grown in the last couple of decades. As student populations have expanded, the activities of academic and administrative units have changed, and material costs for space and infrastructure have ballooned, with institutions spending $600 per sqft for construction on the average higher ed building—more than double what it was a decade ago.

Past Events

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Addressing Student Readiness Challenges at Small Colleges and Universities

During this session, we will unpack EAB's research around four dimensions of student readiness that institutions must prepare to address both today and across the next decade.

Webinar

Cultivating Top Talent

Recruiting top research and faculty talent can expedite expenditure growth and boost an institution's reputation. However, it's often prohibitively expensive and when done poorly, can create a toxic culture among existing faculty.

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A Panel with Provosts and Deans on the Risks and Rewards of Realigning Academic Divisions

The demands on colleges and universities have changed rapidly in recent years, with volatile enrollments, rising student interest in multidisciplinary programs, and increased funding for cross-disciplinary research that addresses real world challenges. But even as academic disciplines have continued to evolve, the academic organizational structures in which they are housed have typically remained static.