13 Feb Is It Budget Season AGAIN?
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...
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12 Feb Tackling Tough Problems: Part I
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...
06 Feb Cross-Functional Team Management: Part II
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...
05 Feb Intentional Strategic Planning
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...
04 Feb Cross-Functional Team Management: Part I
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...
30 Jan Accreditation Blues
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...
29 Jan Be An Innovator: Part II
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...
28 Jan Be an Innovator: Part I
We are all busy. Super busy. But somehow we make time for the things that matter to us – paying bills on time to avoid a penalty, stopping for a...
23 Jan Why the Focus on First-time, Full-time Students?
Did you ever wonder why there’s so much emphasis on First-time, Full-time (FTFT) student success? Why do first-timers get so much more attention than transfers? What about part-time students? Adult...
22 Jan Resolve to Get (Your Metrics) in Shape in 2020
“What gets measured, gets managed.” We’ve all heard this phrase (written by Peter Drucker in 1954). Some 65+ years later it has been used a TON—and misused almost as often....