Victoria Pierce, Controller at Anderson University (SC) talks about what's going well with her team, her love for Workday, the unexpected blessings of a new, faithful footbal program, and her top tips for other Controllers to thrive.

Happy New Year! We're kicking off 2025 by covering the hottest topics we saw in higher education for 2024. Jessica Ryals covers tips, tricks, and overhauls to cash accounting that can help make bank reconciliation more manageable. Cash is king and the more on top of it we are, the better we're able to support the rest of the institution with their needs throughout the year. Hear her top tips from things you can start today to best practices over time to make your life and job easier!

Stephanie Craig, crisis manager extraordinaire, shares the best kept secret of risk and crisis management: it happens well before the crisis. Join her for insights into the risk landscape of higher education (spoiler alert: it's reputation management!) as well as quick wins your institution can implement right away to have a significant impact.

Aaron Kuecker, President of Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, IL, talks through the nuances of leading through challenging times, building decisions around the mission, and drawing a community together while making tough calls.

Between Academic and Financial Leadership on campus, there tend to be the most employees, biggest reporting structures, and at times, most contentious relationships. We chat with Amy Kovach and Scott Campbell, serving at Mount Vernon Nazarene University as the VPAA and CFO, about the success they've had in collaboration with one another and tips for other CFOs in those important relationships.

Turn the microphone around to talk with Jessica Ryals about approaching the Chart of Accounts for better campus understanding and financial reporting. She provides tips from a full overhaul to small scale changes you can make today that have an impact.

For this series, we're flipping the mic! Scott Spear interviews Jessica Ryals on what she's seeing in the industry. We kick off with bank reconciliations - what's going wrong? What best practices can we implement? And most importantly, what can we change TODAY to have an impact?

Katie Booth talks through Higher Ed marketing, her higher ed career, what's great about marketing and how business offices can better relate to and interact with their marketing team. She offers great tips for using internal and external marketing resources alike!

Continuing our Tough Times series, Jeff Spear talks through some key metrics and ratios institutions can use to measure health over time, and the ways there is hope for the industry if we work toward these metrics going forward.

New series starting on Tough Times in Higher Ed, and we're kicking off with Gary Stocker. He talks through the industry situation, why he sees closures as inevitable, and the availability of his IPEDS-fueled College Viability App for employees and prospective families alike to get a picture of their institutions.

Gary: www.collegeviability.com

Jessica: [email protected]