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Business Administration and Finance

We work with university chief business officers as well as their direct reports in finance, HR, facilities, IT, risk management and other key business areas to identify and implement best practices for reducing costs, increasing efficiency and improving service across the university. More so than in any other area, our focus here is on providing practical, nuts and bolts ideas with a proven track record of generating demonstrable ROI at other universities around the country.

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Academic Affairs and Research

We provide provosts, vice provosts, deans, and institutional research offices with advice and best practices addressing the issues central to the university’s academic and research mission. Whether it is helping academic leaders respond to rising concerns around access and outcomes in undergraduate education, sustaining research excellence in an era of funding decline, or winning the war for faculty talent, we offer insights and lessons gleaned from other universities that have successfully navigated these same issues.

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Student Affairs and Campus Life

We help student affairs executives and their teams identify and implement innovative practices for elevating performance and demonstrating value across the myriad activities and services that shape student life and experience on campus. With university budgets getting tighter every year, we focus on providing student affairs executives and their teams with tools and advice allowing them to do more with less every year, as well as profiles of the most cost-effective program and service ideas we uncover at universities nationwide.

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