Unstable future revenues. Ballooning costs. Shifting demographics. For some, the challenges facing our institutions are no longer posing questions about what our schools will look like in the future, but whether our schools have a future at all. Even the most fortunate are concerned that there won't be sufficient resources to sustain excellence — much less fund new ambitions.

This week on NACUBO In Brief, we bring you part one of a four-part series dissecting one of higher education's biggest challenges: financial modeling and forecasting in the face of great uncertainty.

NACUBO's senior director of accounting policy Sue Menditto invites two experts in for the conversation; Larry Goldstein, President of Campus Strategies and author of College and University Budgeting, and Brett Matteo, managing director of The PFM Group and president of Synario software (formerly known as Whitebirch).