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How must we evolve to remain relevant to the student of tomorrow?
Ask any college or university what they’re doing to create the student experience of tomorrow, and they will rattle off the same experiential or highimpact practices: active learning, internships, undergraduate research, service learning, and the like. In the near term, higher ed leaders are focused on scaling these efforts to improve learning, persistence, and career…
3 traits of the most successful advancement offices—and how to put them into practice
How should colleges and universities invest their scarce dollars in advancement? Here’s how the best advancement offices get the most bang for their buck. I often hear from presidents that with growing revenue pressure, meeting with donors and attending fundraising events has never been more important. But it’s no longer enough to show up and…
Does your college have a mission—or just a mission statement?
Even the healthiest, most collegial colleges and universities experience some tension and disagreement between trustees and faculty. For less fortunate institutions, this relationship can be downright hostile. Our members frequently ask for our advice on building common ground between leaders and faculty. One of the many institutions where we’ve worked on this issue is a…
A lesson from Starbucks: How to address campus flashpoints
Colleges and universities are not the only organizations that experience climate “flashpoints”: incidents around diversity and inclusion, sexual misconduct, and free speech are affecting some of the most well-known businesses today. Gen Z and Millennials expect the brands they support to demonstrate values consistent with their own, and young students’ strong commitment to social causes…
Future Higher Education Economics
It’s almost become old hat to say that the higher education economic model is “broken.” Unstable future revenues. Ballooning costs. For some, it’s survival at risk. But even the most fortunate are concerned that there won’t be sufficient budget to sustain excellence, much less fund new ambitions. Yet despite all the talk about an economic…
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