Compared to its health care membership, the Advisory Board’s work in higher education is in its early days, though a venture now numbering more than 200 universities nationwide and growing quickly. We anticipate the Education Advisory Board will eventually serve most of the nation’s major universities, as we do the nation’s major hospitals and health systems.

Our first three program launches in higher education—memberships for provosts, student affairs executives, and the chief university administration and finance executives—reflect our belief that we contribute most by serving the needs of university leaders first and foremost. The one assurance we offer as to any future memberships is that whatever the Education Advisory Board does will be wholly at the direction and discretion of our member institutions.

Finally, that our work in higher education is new is not to say it is unfamiliar. Not only have we long worked with most of the nation’s academic health science centers and their affiliated medical schools, higher education today is beset with the same urgent problems that confronted health care when we began serving our first members two decades back. America’s universities, like its hospitals before, are now being called to a higher standard of performance and efficiency, charged to give a fuller accounting of the value they provide.

Learn about our first three program launches in higher education:

University Leadership Council: Serving Provosts and Senior Academic Leaders
Student Affairs Leadership Council: Serving Student Affairs Executives
University Business Executive Roundtable: Serving Administration and Finance Executives