Innovation

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 07, 2021 - How to spend your American Rescue Plan funds.

April 06, 2021 - Innovation helps you create new value so your institution can thrive.

You spend most of your institution's budget on salaries and benefits for faculty and staff and on programs that develop relationships with stakeholders. Yet the first thing that gets cut when money is tight is professional and leadership development. Join …

March 22, 2021 - The business model is so complex and tangled with the education model of the institution that it is difficult to know how to fix it without making things worse.

One board grew bigger, from 5 trustees to 11. A second got dramatically smaller, from 27 to 12. One stood up to a parent entity to exercise its fiduciary responsibilities. Another acted decisively to help an American college in the Middle …

Responses to the global pandemic demonstrated the inherent advantages of the physical campus as well as the ability of local and remote faculty and students to pivot to online learning. South College’s Vice Chancellor for Online Academic Operations Amy Hilbelink …

February 18, 2021 - At the recent 2021 AGB Foundation Leadership Forum, Martin Davies discussed why it is a compelling time to invest in farmland. Considered a reliable asset class, farmland has proven to be a dependable store of value through times of economic tumult …

February 11, 2021 - The Giving Pyramid has been a trusted friend to advancement professionals for as long as any of us can remember. It’s useful for planning campaigns and providing structure to principal and leadership giving teams, but the top-down model just isn’t …

December 10, 2020 - Major transformational projects (e.g., system implementations, new construction, institutional restructuring) challenge and impact higher education institutions every day – sometimes involving budget overruns, schedule delays and other resource constraints. Institutions are increasingly looking to objective resources …