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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, strategic task forces, committees, and teams as you seek to accelerate progress on core initiatives and implement change with confidence. We invite you to:

  • Register for upcoming events to hear about innovations from across the sector and network with peers
  • Sign up for partner services to receive custom recommendations and advisory support for campus-wide initiatives
  • Browse our library of research and implementation tools to uncover best-practice insights

Have a question about your partnership or want to speak to an expert? Connect with us at [email protected] or contact your EAB Strategic Leader, or learn more about Strategic Advisory Services here.

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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.

Upcoming Events

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Roundtable

Mental Health Collaborative

In the wake of the pandemic era, the importance of addressing student mental health and well-being remains a heightened focus for campus leaders. Student affairs teams must leverage on the current momentum to facilitate student wellness throughout their campus experience.
Roundtable

Tackle the Student Readiness Challenge

Students are arriving on campus less prepared than ever before, and many colleges and universities are struggling with how to identify and address these readiness gaps. Unfortunately, these student readiness challenges are here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Roundtable

Shaping the Market in the Age of GenAI

Many PCO leaders are taking a "wait and see" approach with GenAI, but given the rapid pace of AI advancements, this could mean falling behind.

Past Events

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Roundtable

Elevate Your AI Strategy

As AI's emergence has redefined what is possible in higher education, institutions worldwide are exploring how they can deploy generative AI on their campuses today. However, this means campus leaders must first assess where their institutions currently stand and what goals they hope to achieve with AI.
Roundtable

EAB IgnitED

EAB's annual IgnitED summit will bring together presidents, provosts, chief business officers, and heads of strategy in working sessions with peers from other institutions.
Webinar

Reckoning with Relevance

Every year, EAB produces a State of the Sector presentation, identifying the critical trends shaping the strategic and operational direction of higher education institutions.

Partner Services

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Research and Insights

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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
Resource Center

Student Experience and Well-being Resource Center

Explore our resources on student success and retention, mental health, financial support, student belonging, activism, and experiential learning,
Strategic 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
Tool

Succession Planning Toolkit

This succession planning toolkit helps university leaders identify and develop potential successors for critical roles across campus.
Strategic Advisory Services
Resource Center

Academic Innovation Resource Center

Our academic innovation research examines proven best practices and cutting-edge ideas for transforming the academy and preparing for…
Strategic Advisory Services
Research Report

How Position Control Can Help Your Higher Ed Institution Reduce Labor Costs

This report provides an overview of how position control and vacancy review processes can reduce labor costs at…
Strategic Advisory Services
Resource Center

Student Readiness Resource Center

This Resource Center brings together research and recommendations from across EAB and Seramount to provide K-12 schools, colleges…
EAB

Blogs

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Building capacity for one of higher ed's unsung heroes—academic deans

Here's how academic deans can find support with program innovation and revitalization, strategy and operational excellence, and professional…
Higher Education Strategy Blog
Blog

Improve institutional effectiveness when traditional benchmarking fails

EAB's Administrative Effectiveness Index evaluates strategic capabilities and offers recommendations to improve institutional effectiveness.
Higher Education Strategy Blog
Blog

Use these tried-and-true strategies to start building effective employer partnerships

While there’s no one-size-fits-all fix, schools can use smart strategies to close the gaps and create strong, lasting…
Higher Education Strategy Blog