business models Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/business-models/ A Blog by ACE Fri, 23 Feb 2024 16:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png business models Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/business-models/ 32 32 Course Sharing: Business Models and the Learning Ecosystem in Action https://www.higheredtoday.org/2023/08/10/course-sharing-business-models-and-the-learning-ecosystem-in-action/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:44:04 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17994 Read the third piece in a series focused on exploring the concept of a postsecondary learning ecosystem—one that includes not only traditional higher education institutions but also alternative providers that connect learners to the labor market.

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]]> Essential Partners: Chief Academic Officers and Chief Financial Officers https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/04/24/essential-partners-chief-academic-officers-chief-financial-officers/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:19:44 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16590 By Beth Ingram and Sharon Vasquez This post is the fifth in a series from the Association of Chief Academic Officers. The latest post in the ACAO series shares perspectives of two chief academic officers—one from a public institution in the Midwest with 12,700 students, the other from a private university in New England with 7,000 students. The topic is the CAO’s working ...

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]]> Survival to Transformation: Navigating Fiscal Distress During COVID-19 https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/04/23/survival-transformation-navigating-fiscal-distress-covid-19/ Thu, 23 Apr 2020 16:39:08 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16536 The phone call was bracing, to say the least. One of the more energizing parts of my job is talking regularly to college and university leaders around the world about the most pressing issues facing higher education. But this conversation was different. I could hear and feel the distress in the president’s voice: “Summer school enrollment is already under siege and ...

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]]> Are More Colleges Closing? (Spoiler Alert: Probably Not) https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/09/23/colleges-closing-spoiler-alert-probably-not/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 14:38:58 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=15669 By Phil Muehlenbeck and Karina Pineda With media outlets reporting almost daily on the challenges facing American colleges and universities, often focusing on the closures of small institutions, primarily private nonprofit colleges, you might get the impression that higher education institutions are an endangered species. But to paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of their demise have been greatly exaggerated. There is no ...

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]]> Second-Wave Competency-Based Education: A Focus on Quality https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/09/25/second-wave-competency-based-education-focus-quality/ Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:30:54 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=10681 The second CBE wave—more grounded and focused on quality than the first—is underway, and resources to support development of high-quality programs include the University of Wisconsin Flexible Option case study. Fear of being left behind in the chalk dust triggered the first wave of interest in competency-based education—or CBE—in the early 2000s. In 2012, that wave overlapped with a spike in ...

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]]> Seeking Calm in the Middle of an Imperfect Storm https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/04/12/seeking-calm-middle-imperfect-storm/ Wed, 12 Apr 2017 14:51:45 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=8989 By Thomas J. Botzman The pace of change in higher education used to be seen as glacial, slow or barely perceptible. Today it is more akin to a hurricane, and winds and water are changing the landscape as we speak. The forces at play are a demographic shift that includes fewer high school graduates, increased regulatory and governmental interventions, new competitors ...

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]]> Budgeting for Institutional Success https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/11/14/budgeting-institutional-success/ Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:13:03 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=6873 By Jim Sirianni In my work at ACE, I have the unique pleasure of hosting newly appointed institutional leaders for a range of professional development programs and other events. The topical focus of these meetings depends in large part on the roles the individuals play at their institutions. New department chairs have distinct needs from deans, just as the discussions with ...

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]]> Lead with Data. Inspire with Leadership. https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/05/25/lead-with-data-inspire-with-leadership/ Wed, 25 May 2016 14:40:11 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=5020 By Bob Shea This blog is the third and final in a three-part series introducing three background papers prepared for a roundtable on financial data in higher education convened by ACE and the TIAA Institute. The report from the convening, Evolving Higher Education Business Models, is also available for downloading. For other posts in the series, see The Past Can’t Be Prologue ...

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]]> The Past Can’t Be Prologue https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/05/11/the-past-cant-be-prologue/ Wed, 11 May 2016 15:37:00 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4940 By Dennis P. Jones, This is the second post in a series introducing three background papers prepared for a roundtable on financial data in higher education convened by ACE and the TIAA Institute. To read the first post, see The Price We Pay for Bad Data on College Costs. The dilemmas facing higher education are all too well known: increasing pressures for a much better ...

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]]> The Price We Pay for Bad Data on College Costs https://www.higheredtoday.org/2016/04/27/the-price-we-pay-for-bad-data-on-college-costs/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:33:39 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=4866 By Matthew Soldner This post is the first in a series introducing three background papers prepared for a roundtable on financial data in higher education convened by ACE and the TIAA Institute. The report from the convening, Evolving Higher Education Business Models, is also available for downloading. Institutional leaders—along with most students, families, educators and advocates—know that colleges and universities today face a ...

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]]> Faculty and CFOs: It’s Not Us Versus Them https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/09/09/faculty-and-cfos-its-not-us-versus-them/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:36:22 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=3615 Instead of viewing each other as opposing sides, both faculty and business officers must come together to participate in budget discussions and help ensure that institutions are operating in ways that are financially sustainable, writes Audrey Bilger.  In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article on budget issues, Allison M. Vaillancourt, vice president of human resources and institutional effectiveness at the ...

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