For each membership, the Education Advisory Board publishes a number of major best practice studies each year. Each report contains dozens of original ideas, tactics, or strategies successfully implemented by a handful of the nation’s leading universities. In addition, most reports include a “tool kit”—either as an appendix or separate publication—to help members with practice implementation.
Reports are written with the view that few university administrators have meaningful time to devote to each study. Concise blocks of text are supported by liberal use of graphics, charts, timelines, and flow diagrams. The length of most studies runs 100 to 250 pages. The reaction of most members: "too long."
Unpacking the Contents of a Best Practice Report
- Profiles of best practices, each running 10 to 20 pages, provide members with enough detail and instruction to implement them in their own universities.
- Diagnostic tools allow members to identify which root cause problems—and therefore which best practices—merit their immediate attention
- Benchmarks help members quantify the extent of the problem at their own universities and measure the benefits from improvement
- Practice applicability audits help members choose those best practices most likely to work at their own universities.
- Collateral materials collected from case study universities provide members with templates they can customize to their own circumstances.
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