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Trends in Higher Education Staffing Costs
Insights from across the HelioCampus Labor Cost Analytics Consortium 2025 edition.
The HelioCampus Approach to AI: Empowering Higher Education Through Responsibility
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries across the globe, including higher education. For decision-makers in colleges and universities of all sizes, deploying...
How To Move Beyond Across-the-Board Cuts At Your Institution
In today's challenging financial climate, university leaders are under immense pressure to reduce costs. The default solution is often an across-the-board cut—a mandated...
6 Ways to Use Labor Cost Benchmarking to Support Financial Decision-Making
Understanding your labor spend is critical to financial decision-making. Oftentimes, departmental budgeting approaches limit visibility into true labor spending patterns,...
How to Survive the Enrollment Cliff in Higher Education
If you are a part of higher education, or have even been attuned to news of the industry over the past decade, you’ve undoubtedly heard calls of enrollment decline. While...
What Are the Different Budget Models in Higher Education?
Budget models in higher education are the structured methods institutions use to fund their strategic initiatives, as well as the prioritization of how those funds are...
4 Steps for Financial Viability When HEERF Grants Deplete
The current sustainability of higher education has been an uneasy topic for many in the industry over the past three years. With the unforeseeable challenges created by the...
Financial Winter is Coming for Higher Ed, Despite Stimulus
The next few years will come straight out of “Game of Thrones” for universities. Many leaders project optimism and conduct business per usual while a select few recognize an...
How Strong Is the Relationship Between Your CFO and Provost?
In November, University of California, Riverside announced its hire of Elizabeth Watkins as its new provost and executive vice chancellor.
How Much Has COVID Cost Colleges? $183 Billion
What a year. Higher ed came into 2020 facing its share of financial challenges: a negative outlook for the entire sector, widespread operating deficits, stark enrollment ...
Here’s the truth about the campus budget crisis
With the fall semester behind us, recently released data is beginning to bring greater definition to the impact of the pandemic on colleges and universities and what...

