Tips for Leveraging Institutional Resources to Upskill Higher Education Employees
Colleges and universities are constantly being challenged to do more with less. What if you could train and upskill faculty and staff by making your existing resources work harder for you? You can. In today’s rapidly evolving higher education landscape, institutions need to equip staff with the necessary skills to adapt and succeed. Thankfully, institutions […]
Educause 2023 Takeaways Part I: Generative AI & More Importantly, Everything Else
Educause’s annual conference in Chicago attracted more than 7,000 attendees and 300 vendors from far and wide across the country and globe. Given the vast spectrum of higher education leaders presenting on a broad array of topics, trying to succinctly summarize the breadth and depth of noteworthy issues covered at an event of this scope […]
Higher Education Financial Resilience: Is Data Analytics the Key?
Revenue shortfalls and looming fiscal clouds are causing many colleges and universities to realize that financial resilience partly hinges on having insight into every aspect of the student journey. The financial instability among institutions has been precipitated by a confluence of issues, including enrollment declines that have not recovered post pandemic, the much-covered demographic cliff, […]
Tambellini Finance Systems StarChart Delivered: The Definitive Guide for Institutions Seeking Their Best-Fit Technology Solutions
Competitive and economic strains facing higher education stretch across every function and department in the institution. Finance teams, however, are often the last to modernize their technology since CFOs are traditionally conservative in their spending in support of their own department. Given the current circumstances, finance leaders must be creative in how they streamline processes […]
Zoom Ventures Far Beyond Video Calls
Insights from Zoomtopia 23 Most institutions use Zoom for video in some fashion, whether via a full enterprise license, decentralized individual licenses, or the free version. Zoom has become synonymous with hybrid classes and work, but if you aren’t thinking about how Zoom can meet institutional needs beyond virtual meetings, you should be. Zoom has […]
6 Tips to Ensure Shared Services Success at Your Institution
What has changed in shared services for higher education institutions over the last few decades? The need to create a financially viable, stable, and successful shared services organization (SSO). Institutions need to be highly strategic and deliberate with their approach to shared services to see a return on their investment. This blog post will outline […]
Workday Rising 2023: Workday Doubles Down on AI Transforming the Human Work Experience
Beginning September 26, we joined with 15,000 Workday customers, employees, partners, and prospects to learn more about Workday’s plans to enhance its product suite at the largest Workday Rising to date. In line with so many conferences in 2023, discussions and messaging around the role and use of artificial intelligence (AI) were top-of-mind throughout the […]
Preparing for the Complexities of the Simplified FAFSA
The most significant overhaul yet to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is coming this December when the US Education Department plans to release its new simplified form. Reducing the application from over 100 questions to less than 50 will no doubt make it easier for many of the nearly 18 million students […]
Oracle CloudWorld 2023 Highlights Rapid Innovation
During the 2023 Oracle CloudWorld Conference in Las Vegas, a spotlight was on Oracle Fusion Cloud Student for the estimated 300 higher education institutions that attended. The conference provided insights into Oracle’s product strategy across its infrastructure, applications, and data and analytics products and its progress on Oracle Student. It was also an opportunity to […]
Best Practices for Overcoming Recruitment Challenges
Higher education recruitment and admissions professionals faced strong headwinds and a forthcoming enrollment cliff long before the pandemic hit, with National Student Clearinghouse data showing that total postsecondary enrollment declined by nearly 2 million students between 2011 and 2020. Though institutions were already using a wide array of technology tools to help in their efforts […]
