Finance Edition
Foundations of Confidence Webinar Series
Join us on the third Thursday of each month as we explore practical strategies for managing financial drivers with creative data sources.
Where data leads, confidence follows.
Join us for a new monthly webinar series designed to help you meet today's high stakes moment in higher education and inspire new approaches to data that power your institution's performance, sustainability, and achievement of its mission. These discussions will focus on actionable strategies to build a foundation for continuous improvement anchored in three core pillars.
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Designed for finance leaders and their essential partners who need to ensure their institution is on a financially sustainable path, especially given today's economic and regulatory landscape. This series will focus on actionable data practices you can employ to more proactively manage major financial drivers within your institution, like staffing and academic program efficiencies.
Untapped Financial Levers to Meet the Moment Without Sacrificing Your Mission
5/15 @ 2pm ET | 11am PT
As institutions struggle with new financial pressures, it's critical to explore all levers to determine a path forward. Looking at often untapped areas like course capacity & instructional utilization or reviewing your development staffing can offer a more holistic look at your financial picture. Having the data to make decisions with confidence is key to assuring your institution is well positioned for the future. We’ll review exclusive data from our benchmarking consortium to highlight labor cost opportunities, as well as share how to assess contribution margin and course & instructional capacity. Join us for a creative dialogue as we review multiple financial levers you can put in practice today during these unprecedented times of financial uncertainty.
Overcoming Data Friction to Improve Academic Performance with the University of South Carolina Upstate
6/19 @ 2pm ET | 11am PT
The concept of data friction emerged from studies of the social and material factors that slow down the transfer and sharing of data within the global scientific community, but we see friction serving as a barrier to higher education data—even within institutional contexts. A recent Science article notes that higher education institutions are data rich but "data blind" (Borgman & Brand, 2022), due to a lack of infrastructure thinking, but approaching this challenge through the lens of data friction allows us to identify the specific sites in our institutions that could use a little oil to keep the data flowing smoothly. This session with the University of South Carolina Upstate explores the specific material and social friction points associated with Academic Performance Management data, then identifies strategies for overcoming data friction to help realize greater efficiencies in course offerings and faculty workload.
