Blog Posts

May 13, 2021 - The pandemic has strained the budgets of colleges and universities across the country. While cutting costs may be necessary for an institution to keep its doors open, a single-minded focus on financial health comes with its own set of risks.

May 12, 2021 - Endowments face a unique set of challenges; their high return goals reflect a need to grow intergenerational equity while meeting ambitious spending requirements. In the forward-looking market environment, BlackRock considers four principles for endowment investing.

Many of us associate the month of May with commencement—a time when families, friends, colleagues, and mentors celebrate graduates’ hard work and personal growth.

May 03, 2021 - Institutions are examining ways to increase ROI from academic spend through a data-driven assessment of academic programs, faculty, and student involvement.

April 29, 2021 - While the forced march to remote learning will soon end, institutions understand the need to continue to expand and improve their online offerings. Public-private partnerships coupled with other forms of collaborations can provide access to private capital to support …

April 28, 2021 - Colleges and universities are facing increasing demands to develop measurable goals and benchmarks for institutional progress and assessment.

April 27, 2021 - Instead of recycling tactics used on campus, the Online Learning Advising Model is custom-made for the online learning experience. That includes accounting for how students think and feel about online coursework, helping them cross the finish line to graduation.

April 22, 2021 - ESG and environmentally sustainable investment are increasingly capturing the attention of the institutional investment community. To assess the state of ESG and sustainable investing and how they are changing, Commonfund Forum 2021 offered a discussion focused on these topics featuring …

April 21, 2021 - Top-of-mind priorities for foundation leaders in 2021 include the return to foundation offices; talent management and diversity, equity and inclusion; the foundation’s sustainability; tensions over the use of funds raised and managed by the foundation; and the institution-foundation partnership.

April 20, 2021 - The higher education landscape has changed dramatically as a multitude of challenges have threatened the financial stability of institutions. Declining enrollments and operating revenues, tuition dependence, and over-burdened cost structures are only some of the issues plaguing colleges and universities. …