Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Image: Facing a budget deficit of $5 million, Southern Oregon University is considering a realignment plan that will include deep cuts, which its president says are necessary to right the ship financially. Administrators have said only 23 current faculty and staff members will lose their jobs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

“It is important to us that financial aid and finances are not what people are thinking about and worrying about through their college experience,” Runiewicz says. Give special attention to building budgeting skills Budgeting was the No. You have to have some kind of a budget,” Runiewicz will tell students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Over the past couple of weeks, I worked with a number of academic librarians and an expert in higher ed finance to create a series of Q&As that explored academic library funding. Again, fair criticism.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 16, 2024

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. Understanding budgets.

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University Business

MAY 24, 2023

While CARES Act funding largely kept schools afloat and even jumpstarted a renaissance at HBCUs, one global management consulting firm believes most higher ed is unprepared to deal with a post-pandemic landscape. Higher education gained an unlikely asset during the pandemic, and it came in the shape of billions of federal emergency funding.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

While this new type of melt may not be widespread enough to cause concern, it does speak to the severity of some of the social & emotional challenges faculty, student affairs staff, and behavioral intervention teams have found themselves dealing with over the past academic year.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Efficient allocation of budgets and staff. Provosts : Access operational insights related to budget management, research funding, faculty productivity, student risk assessment, academic program analysis, and cost-efficiency. Improving course offerings and design. Tailoring education to individual needs.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

Western Governors provides students with individualized budget plans that map out exactly how much money they will need to borrow. University internal data declares that students are 20% more likely to complete their course when faculty alerted by the dashboard provide timely outreach.

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University Business

JUNE 26, 2024

Lindenwood University recently announced it’s letting go of 12 staff members and two faculty members and may decide not fill up to 50 positions in order to help cut its operating budget by 10%, St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. ” Ferreira described the pandemic and this year’s complications as a one-two punch.

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Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

From student retention to faculty performance, keeping an eye on the right metrics is what separates thriving institutions from those that struggle to keep up. Every decision, from faculty to infrastructure, impacts the institution’s future. Keep tabs on key metrics like faculty engagement, workload distribution, and research output.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Although these requirements are unavoidable burdens, I worked with faculty committees to identify data that would also be usable by them as they educated students. On-demand webinar Building a Culture of Data Confidence Learn more about effective data management and how institutional culture impacts the use of data. link] 1353/rhe.2017.0013

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Colleges and universities face significant challenges today, from budget pressures and declining enrollments to the need to enhance payments and other services while cutting costs. More from UB: Faculty pay is arbitrary—and that’s putting it nicely! Universities have a variety of options to change this narrative.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

NACUBO also found that colleges increased their endowment spending, with dollars increasingly flowing toward institutional operating budgets, largely focused on student financial aid. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3 percent overall average return in 2021.

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Creatrix Campus

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

There's a bigger picture here than just managing a project. Committees bring multiple viewpoints to address the full gamut of challenges: experience from information technology (IT), administration, faculty, and other departments. A Project Manager This individual manages the project daily.

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EAB

JANUARY 5, 2023

In recent years, institutions have confronted historical legacies of oppression , invested in faculty diversity , and developed retention programs for Black and Latino men , among many other initiatives. Just 10% of provosts selected any activity within "enhancing the faculty experience" as most critical. Activities. Activities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The courses can require colleges to negotiate articulation agreements with school districts or schools, evaluate faculty, add IT infrastructure, and hire personnel dedicated to enrollment management, advising and supports for high school students, among other needs, all of which take time and money. percent of its total budget.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

DECEMBER 22, 2022

These include classes in biostatistics, climatology, computational modeling of behavior, computational social science, epidemiology, finance, genomics, investment analytics, materials science, medicine, risk management and supply chain analysis. Homework is one of the most inequitable practices of education.”

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Computers and Informational Technology Budget and Finance Management Mining Finance 112

EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more. Projects addressed topics such as program review, data strategy, budget models, enrollment growth, and more. Below are a few of the key themes that appeared in multiple capstone projects from past participants.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

With more than two-thirds of community college students requesting aid annually, 30% being Pell-eligible, 16% being single parents —and inflation at a perilous high—everyone is feeling the effects of one more line-item in the household budget each month. As mentioned previously, finances are the leading reason students stop out of college.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Research by the Lumina Foundation found that providing advisers across academics, finances, mental health and other services is essential for the post-pandemic college cohort. However, this growing facet of higher education intersects with the public’s growing disdain for the degree’s price tag.

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Higher Ed Connects: Student Success Blogs

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

As a first-generation student , I have experienced the struggle of trying to finance an education while working long hours and balancing family demands. The legislature cut the budget for community colleges while allowing increased fees as noted in a 2018 article, “fee hikes will not be sufficient in making up the entire shortfall.

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EAB

AUGUST 7, 2023

To improve effectiveness, data-driven decision-making, and the employee experience, institutions must invest in talent as a strategic capability and transform their approach to talent management. We aspire to be the trusted advisor and first place you turn when new opportunities or priorities emerge.

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Creatrix Campus

JULY 4, 2024

SaaS-based cloud accounting software provides capabilities to store and access finance and accounting data in the cloud, allowing users to perform their everyday tasks off-site. This comprises data on financial conditions, accounting, procurement, and budgeting. Fortunately, it takes very little time to keep your expenses organized.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Many are not doing well mentally or emotionally, and these big changes are readily apparent to faculty reporting ‘ stunning’ levels of disconnection and disengagement in their courses. These responses doubled those of the prior year’s survey, and they far exceeded other common retention threats such as finances and academic difficulty.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Blogs Reduce long-term cost growth to rightsize your university Higher ed's budget woes are becoming harder to ignore. As costs continue to grow faster than revenues (as they did across the last decade), it’s no surprise that institutions with tight budgets or outright deficits are reopening the cost savings playbook.

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SRHE

MAY 28, 2024

The OED offers no more than “The act or manner of governing” and, misleadingly in respect to universities, defines a governing body as “the managers of the institution” ignoring the concept of ‘shared governance’ between governing bodies and senates implicit historically in the constitutions of most pre-1992 universities.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this environment, school faculty and staff understand the complexities of managing life with a learning disability. These laws mandate that all colleges and universities in the United States that receive any federal financing cannot discriminate in the recruitment, admission, or treatment of students with disabilities.

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Creatrix Campus

MAY 17, 2024

Overcoming Opposition to Change To promote acceptance and flexibility among stakeholders in higher eds, successfully managing change can be necessary while implementing technology software automation. This has always been a major hurdle.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Traditional cost-cutting measures, such as hiring freezes and budget cuts, offer only temporary relief – they fail to address the systemic issues that are eroding the financial foundations of these institutions. These cuts include cutting 28 majors and 143 faculty. Faculty members, too, experienced a shift in perspective.

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EAB

DECEMBER 8, 2022

finance, DEIJ) and hinge on unit-level buy-in and behavior. Amid tightening budgets and growing reliance on data to measure success, cabinets increasingly expect CHROs to collect and communicate talent data on issues such as staff turnover and employee engagement, as well as prioritize and justify talent-related investments.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 28, 2019

students who are no longer are attracted to faculty careers are still interested in working in higher education. A previous “Carpe Careers” column did an excellent job outlining the variety of teaching roles in the higher education landscape beyond tenure-line faculty positions. Colleges and universities are great places to work.

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Creatrix Campus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Accreditation from the HEC ensures that an institution meets a set of rigorous standards related to program quality, faculty qualifications, and student support services. The HEC also evaluates the institution's overall management and governance, including its financial stability, facilities, and human resources.

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Higher Education Computers and Informational Technology Education Budget and Finance Management 52

Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Across-the-board budget cuts? If you’re a campus leader without experts who have industry experience in marketing, finance, sales, and change management on your staff, chances are you’re hearing the same recycled ideas I shared above that put you in an untenable position. How comfortable and confident are you in managing change?

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EAB

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

If they are, for instance, a College of Business student, wouldn't it be great to be able to do their work/study assignment inside of the College of Business and have that many more opportunities to be connected to the faculty and the staff and other students inside of their own college? That's the goal with all of the placements.

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EAB

APRIL 25, 2023

The survey explores topics such as talent retention, carbon neutrality efforts, deferred maintenance, space utilization, and computerized maintenance management systems. Maya and Michael offer insights and advice for facilities managers on ways to prioritize and make meaningful progress on all these challenges. MG: Yeah, for sure.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Her leadership revolves around integrity and empowering GVSU’s faculty and staff to drive its success. Absolutely. [00:07:56] Drumm: And so with this view of employers and the public value of higher education, we’ve been stuck in doing it a certain way, from a faculty perspective, it’s always been the sage on the stage.

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Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 14, 2024

Trust your instincts and seek support from trusted mentors or faculty members if needed. Create a budget, track your expenses, and understand the terms of your loans. Your future self will thank you for being proactive about your finances. Get enough sleep, eat well, exercise, and find ways to manage stress productively.

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