Business Office Reset

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]

Have you ever wanted to pick Dave Moja's brain on the 990? As we finalize 2023 and look to 2024's filings, Dave takes us through the key areas of the form, what to watch out for, and how to spend your time on the most impactful areas. Don't miss Part 1 or Part 2 of our chat!

Dave can be reached at [email protected].
Jessica can be reached at [email protected]

Have you ever wanted to pick Dave Moja's brain on the 990? As we finalize 2023 and look to 2024's filings, Dave takes us through the key areas of the form, what to watch out for, and how to spend your time on the most impactful areas. Don't miss Part 1 or Part 2 of our chat!

Dave can be reached at [email protected].
Jessica can be reached at [email protected]

How do we think about the Academic Programs we offer? What do we do with faculty attrition? How can we set ourselves up to have conversations around programs that don't require radical changes? We chat with Scott Spear about new ways to think about resourcing our academic programs through data generosity and collaborative decision making.

Our friends from Credo are back! Sean and Joretta talk through the importance of our financial clearance process as an institution in the student success space, and spoiler alert, the follow on effects on student retention AND cash flow for the institution. A must-listen for every business officer struggling to gain traction on accounts receivable and shining a light on why our students (as well as our employees) need us to take this seriously.

We chat with Victoria Pierce about the intricacies of endowment accounting, making Workday work for their institution (even without the endowment module) and ways to integrate endowment work throughout the year to make year-end more manageable.

We talk with Leah Miller, Director of HR at Kenyon College, about the shifting landscape of HR in higher education, from hiring to onboarding to retaining employees, and ways to shift our perspective to get and keep the right talent.

As we're rethinking higher ed, Jan Haas talks us through ways we can look at what we have as institutions - buildings, faculty, programs - and use them in new ways to serve our communities and continue our mission.

Jeff Spear talks recruitment, financial aid leveraging, and studying who's successful at our institutions to determine who to go after moving forward. This kicks off our Rethinking series to propose new ways of life in higher ed for the new year.