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    Getting Started

    EAB provides in-depth research and services for higher ed IT leaders to meet their most pressing challenges. We’ve surfaced best practices to help you navigate digital transformation, improve stakeholder communication, tackle data governance, and more.

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    Featured Resource

    Cybersecurity Diagnostic for Education Leaders

    Cybersecurity attacks among education institutions are on the rise. This diagnostic will help campus leaders identify key opportunities for improving cybersecurity protections in an environment of rapidly escalating attacks targeting education institutions.

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    Events

    Upcoming

    Past

    Champions for a New Era: How CIOs Can Advance Post-Pandemic Institutional Ambitions

    At this roundtable, EAB convened CIOs to discuss how institutions can best shape emerging institutional strategies even while dealing with an unprecedented IT talent crisis.

    Rethinking faculty data management and security in higher ed

    Research universities are rethinking and reorganizing how they approach management and security of faculty data. While the NSPM-33 outlines important parameters for both universities and federal funding agencies, there are still many unanswered questions across the industry as it relates to implementation and downstream implications of this guidance.

    How to engage your campus in a security-first culture

    Cyberattacks have increased both in frequency and ferocity, leading to compromised operations, leaked personal data, multi-million-dollar losses, and even school closures. Now more than ever, IT leaders and their teams need the support of boards, cabinets, and the overall campus community to improve their institutional security posture and protect their institutions from devastating attacks.

    What IT leaders need to know about the state of the higher ed sector

    At every turn, higher ed institutions must now compete to be the institution of choice for their students, their talent, their research funding, and more. Discover the takeaways about these challenges from our roundtable discussion with CIOs and IT leaders.

    How Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification will impact your institution

    EAB’s IT Strategy Advisory Services hosted a Q&A panel with three senior IT leaders with experience navigating Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) at their institutions. Explore key takeaways from the roundtable event.

    How higher ed leaders are adapting office space for hybrid work

    As college and university leaders start to plan for a post-pandemic world, many are adapting their on-campus office space to better align with more hybrid work. To help campus leaders rethink office spaces, we’ve outlined three recommendations based on our recent conversations with Chief Business Officers and Senior Facilities Officers.

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    Partner Services

    Enterprise Data Management Collaborative

    EAB’s Enterprise Data Management Collaborative develops and implements an enterprise-wide data strategy for higher ed institutions.

    Enterprise Data Management Resource Guide

    EAB’s Enterprise Data Management Service Plan identifies the top priorities and corresponding actions that institutions must take to improve data management and provides best-practice research and expert guidance every step of the way.

    Financial Sustainability Collaborative for Administrative and Organizational Effectiveness

    Participate in EAB’s Financial Sustainability Collaborative for Administrative and Organizational Effectiveness to assess the overall fitness of critical administrative functions and quantify savings opportunities.

    Remote Work Policy Audit

    Use the remote work policy audit to compare your institution’s policy to best practices across a wide spectrum of employers and data-driven research, and receive concrete suggestions to improve your policy that are specifically tailored to higher education.

    Related Research

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    • Cybersecurity and Risk Management
    • Data Governance
    • Digital Transformation
    • Enterprise Integration
    • Online Learning
    • Project Management
    • Remote Work
    • Stakeholder Communication
    • Strategic Planning
    • Talent Management
    • Vendor Relations

    Higher Ed’s Talent Imperative

    This brief identifies multiple dimensions of talent strategy that higher ed leaders must invest in to become employers of choice.

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    Recruitment Strategies to Win Over Top External Talent

    This white paper outlines the urgency drivers for why higher ed must modernize its recruiting and onboarding strategies to attract talent. Then, it provides campus leaders with 10 foundational solutions to common challenges across the major phases of the talent acquisition process that out-of-sector competitors have already implemented.

    White Paper

    Fostering the Next Generation of IT Talent

    This report outlines seven tactics for IT departments to develop the most effective student employment programs as possible.

    Study

    Champions for a New Era: How CIOs Can Advance Post-Pandemic Institutional Ambitions

    At this roundtable, EAB convened CIOs to discuss how institutions can best shape emerging institutional strategies even while dealing with an unprecedented IT talent crisis.

    Past Event

    IT Labor Market Analysis for Higher Ed

    This resource will help higher ed IT leaders gain a better understanding of the IT labor market so they can more effectively advertise jobs and make the argument for competitive recruitment strategies.

    Toolkit

    How to engage your campus in a security-first culture

    Cyberattacks have increased both in frequency and ferocity, leading to compromised operations, leaked personal data, multi-million-dollar losses, and even school closures. Now more than ever, IT leaders and their teams need the support of boards, cabinets, and the overall campus community to improve their institutional security posture and protect their institutions from devastating attacks.

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    Quick Reads

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    7 missteps university leaders must avoid in their AI approach

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    6 innovative ways higher ed can embrace AI

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    105 Tactics to Improve Employee Engagement

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    How Northampton Community College Simplified Compliance Reporting with Automated Data Preparation

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    4 key takeaways from an analysis of the U.K. IT labour market

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    How Carleton College’s CTO increased staff diversity in IT

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    Cross-Cabinet Initiatives

    Blueprint for Growth

    Blueprint for Growth is EAB’s signature, multi-year research initiative on the future of post-secondary enrollment, both undergraduate and graduate, domestic and international.

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    Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Resource Center

    Your curated guide for DEIJ conversations on campus and institutional change.

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    Mental Health Resource Center

    We've compiled custom resources to help your institution holistically address mental health on campus.

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    Tags

    Blogs

    Americans’ trust in higher ed has reached a new low. Here’s how to navigate the ongoing confidence crisis.

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    Blogs

    We asked 3,800+ graduate and adult students about their program preferences. Here’s what they shared.

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    Podcast

    Seth Bodnar’s Journey from Green Beret to UM President

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