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Webinar Series

 

What gets measured, gets managed. Building a culture that balances the academic mission with critical financial considerations requires finance leaders to take a strategic approach–and have data at the ready.

Join us monthly as we walk through ways to explore your two largest expenditures–labor and academics–as these provide the greatest levers for cost savings and optimization. We’ll look at real-life scenarios and discuss strategies to navigate polarizing conversations and the difficult decisions that lie ahead as increased regulatory pressures and funding shifts mount.

Get a peak at the lineup below, or scroll down for more details. 

HC-BW-Icon-150x150-32EPISODE 1: Enrollment & Institutional Spending Patterns:
           New trends impacting financial sustainability

          10/9 @ 2pm ET // 11am PT

HC-BW-Icon-150x150-28EPISODE 2: Centralization & Budget Blind Spots: Strategies
          for measuring ROI and managing bloat

          11/6 @ 2pm ET // 11am PT

HC-BW-Icon-150x150-09EPISODE 3: Measuring Academic Program ROI: Insights on
           how to unite finance and academic leadership

          12/4 @ 2pm ET // 11am PT   

 

Register for the Series

EPISODE 1:
Enrollment & Institutional Spending Patterns: New trends impacting financial sustainability 

10/9 @ 2pm ET // 11am PT

Robert Kelchen, a nationally recognized scholar from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, joins this session to share his latest research project examining the relationships between enrollment and institutional spending. We’ll discuss:

  • What labor cost trends are revealed from our benchmarked data

  • Implications finance departments must consider for long-term sustainability

  • Strategies for addressing necessary changes within your organization 

EPISODE 2:
Centralization & Budget Blind Spots: Strategies for measuring ROI and managing bloat

11/6 @ 2pm ET // 11am PT

Traditional budgeting and resourcing practices leave blindspots and contribute to unintended bloat. Finance leaders are often left to act without nuance, applying broad cuts that hinder productive or mission-centric operations. 

With today’s landscape, finance leaders need new data to initiate dialogue that challenges norms and emerging patterns on traditionally sensitive topics before a crisis occurs. Join to learn:

  • Useful analyses to evaluate levels of centralization and ROI, featuring real-life examples

  • Strategies for change management within institutions

  • Ideas and policies to bring this data into use ongoing for broader buy-in 

EPISODE 3:
Measuring Academic Program ROI: Insights on how to unite finance and academic leadership

12/4 @ 2pm ET // 11am PT

Increasing regulatory pressure has many scrambling to more deeply understand the ROI of their academic programming. It’s not about cuts–it’s about understanding which academic units generate positive contribution margins to strategically subsidize those critical to the institution’s mission with lower or negative margins.

Both Finance and Academic leaders must be bought in for long-term success. Join this discussion to hear from institutional leaders on:

  • How they initiated the dialogue among necessary stakeholders

  • What successes and pitfalls were encountered along the way

  • Considerations before embarking on this analysis 

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