There is ittle doubt that higher education is deep in a jam both fiscally and strategically. In my travels, higher education leaders seem to be waiting for something while also acknowledging that when the stimulus funds run out that something will turn ugly. Half of the states will have spent all of their [...]
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“…in higher education, for every problem we have a 15-week [...] When the health care reform bill passed last week, few noticed the provisions for changing the way that federal government provides student loans. Riding on the health care bill was necessary since by its own rules Congress can only use reconciliation once per budget year and previous efforts to pass the Student Aid and Fiscal [...] Excuse a rant today, but further evidence of dry rot in the higher education enterprise has wafted my way. A dear friend told me that while serving as a reviewer of applications for a prestigious (as in well-known) national award she was struck by a lack accumen in providing evidence of program success. One unnamed [...] Independent consultants have the least time and resources to keep track of the mundane parts of their enterprise. Here, I refer to the process of keeping tabs on income and expenses in a way that makes tax filing easier each year. Several years ago, I developed an Excel sheet that matches the federal [...] I’m much encouraged by the post in Inside HIgherEd this morning on Indiana’s decision to be strategic in making budget cuts in higher education. Would that other states have this courage in hard times. The usual approach is to treat all institutions “about” the same. That is, fund them all equally in good times [...] …despite the newness of western-style higher education in this ancient land, most of the MENA attendees were seasoned [...] The drum beat for more “scientific evaluation techniques” has become a mantra in higher education [...] Of course, if you don’t know what the old way of doing business costs, you’ll never know the value of the new way. I’ve shaken my head many a time at the disconnect between being innovative and knowing–with actual cost data–that we’re dong [...] “Separate the operational from the strategic. Most institutional managers get hung up here by thinking that their day-to-day activities are strategic when, in fact, they are usually [...] |
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