[Webinar] Does Your Technology Ecosystem Support Your Revenue Goals?
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Colleges and universities are betting their future on revenue growth while working with technology ecosystems that were built for a different era. Donors now expect seamless, personalized giving experiences, but many campuses still rely on siloed systems, incomplete data, and manual processes that slow advancement and limit insight. This webinar focuses on how the right […]
The Vicious Fractal of Complacency: When Leadership Trades Agency for Comfort
Complacency is one of those words we think we understand immediately—usually as a character flaw. It conjures images of laziness, low standards, or people who simply don’t care. But in the real world, complacency is rarely that simple. More often, it’s what happens when friction becomes familiar. When complexity becomes “normal.” When the path of […]
Enterprise Planning—Take the Reins
Most institutions and their vendors are still framing technology conversations around transactions, analytics, and user experience: better HR, cleaner financial reporting, faster close, fewer manual touches. That work matters, but it is not the operating capability that will differentiate institutions in our current climate of volatility as a constant. Over the next five years, the […]
[Webinar] Rebuilding the Recruitment Funnel: How Technology Turns Interest into Enrollment
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Higher education leaders are under increasing pressure to deliver predictable enrollment amid shifting demographics, changing student expectations, and intense competition. At the same time, the technology landscape is evolving quickly, offering new ways to understand prospective students, personalize engagement, and focus limited staff time where it matters most. This on-demand webinar looks at the recruitment […]
Bhusri Returns as CEO: Can Workday Accelerate Innovation Pace?
Workday reset its leadership model. On February 9, 2026, Workday announced that co-founder and executive chair Aneel Bhusri is returning as CEO, effective immediately, replacing Carl Eschenbach, who stepped down the same day. This is the third act in the following timeline: During this time, Aneel was still very present as the board chair with […]
A K-12 Dean’s Perspective on TEFA: Promise, Process, and the Reality for Families
As conversations around the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program continue to evolve, I wanted to step out of my usual higher-ed analyst role and spend time listening to someone who is dealing with TEFA at ground level. I asked my wife, Jenifer Winn, M.Ed. to sit down and answer a few questions about TEFA […]
[Webinar] Optimization-as-a-Service Implementation Models
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The technology market is shifting from project-based deployments (i.e., “Go Live & Goodbye”) to continuous adoption, as customers now require ongoing release management, process optimization, governance, and incremental innovation. Submit the form to watch Michael Anderson and Dave Kieffer explore how this shift impacts your institution’s organizational structure, governance, and staffing in technology implementation. Session […]
Making Platform Capabilities Central to Modernization Decisions
Modern cloud administrative solutions, including finance, HCM, and student, have delivered one clear set of outcomes: standardized, configurable processes where customers cannot customize the core application. That’s real progress, based on the critical weakness of legacy on-premises solutions —expensive customization and the need for massively disruptive upgrades. But it also created a very different data […]
Your AI Isn’t a Tool. It’s an Intern.
For the last few years, professionals have asked if AI would take their jobs. Now, in early 2026, we are seeing the first clear signals. While the long-term future of work remains unwritten, current data suggests that for now, AI is not replacing most roles. Instead, it is fundamentally transforming them. The right question to […]
Reimagining ERP Starts by Letting Go of the Past
Stop Replacing Systems. Start Reimagining Outcomes. In many ERP replacement initiatives across higher education, institutions say they want reimagination. But what often shows up in practice is something else entirely: a deep, almost gravitational pull toward requirements. Pages and pages of requirements. Detailed mappings of legacy processes. Endless conversations about how the old system worked […]
