Doesn’t it feel like it’s always budget season? Whether planning for the next semester or the next fiscal year, monitoring the budget is a year-round activity. For most institutions, tuition and fees represent significant revenue streams. Since those tuition and fee dollars come from students,...
In The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost celebrates the value in going where others have not. In higher education, you can have that experience by taking on the problems no one else wants to address. Tackling these tough problems is good advice – we share...
Unpopular ideas are just that … unpopular. So, when you have a new idea or way of looking at the data, you often wonder if you should go out on a limb to share it. Wouldn’t it be great if there were others who think like you on...
Sometimes it feels like reports detailing college and university data might as well be a foreign language. Lots of numbers, tons of bar graphs, size 5 font. And footnotes galore. Reports are jam-packed with so much information that it is hard to identify key takeaways. And it’s a challenge even knowing where to begin. At IEHE, we share...
February!? When did it become February? Well - you know what that means. Winter is wrapping up and spring is on the way. Spring IPEDS, that is. Spring into Action The IPEDS winter data collection closes soon, very soon -- Wednesday, February 12, 2020, to be exact....
Promoting student success at colleges and universities is a goal that almost always requires leaders with cross-functional team management skills. Improving student graduation rates can involve almost every area of the institution. So, it's important--if not necessary--to get the buy-in of a broad group of...
It still feels like 2020 snuck up out of nowhere. And here it is already February. Last year, around this time, we discussed some strategies for planning to succeed. So it makes sense to check in a year later with more strategic planning strategies. Shouldn't...
Have you started to notice “Cross-functional team management skills" required on recent job postings or asked about in interviews? I certainly have. But what does that really mean? It sounds like a clever way of saying ‘you’ll need to manage a group of people who...
Let's talk accreditation. There are nearly 100 accrediting bodies recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) or the U.S. Department of Education – including regional, faith-related, career, and programmatic entities. Colleges and universities often elect to participate in multiple accrediting bodies, both regional and...
In Be an Innovator: Part I, we noted that Thomas Edison, one of America's most prolific inventors once said, “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." But let’s be honest . . . if you want leaders to view you...
