(From EAB) Costs for college students have risen steadily while net tuition revenue growth has been low. Strategic financial aid allocation can help offset rising costs. Yet enrollment goals of balancing diversity, reven
Compliance
Safety and Security
(From Fisher Phillips Newsletter) Employers have the right to be present for any walk-around conducted during an OSHA inspection. Best practices for protecting your walk-around rights includes being assertive of your rig
(from the Observer) According to a Gallup poll, Americans rank public schools as the fifth best option of five, with only 44 percent considering them excellent or good, and nearly 20 percent ranking them as poor. As for
(From Chronical of Higher Education) The University of Tennessee at Knoxville had to relocate students to deal with mold, as did the University of Maryland at College Park and Indiana University at Bloomington. Some coll
(From Education Week) Use of facial recognition is gaining traction at airports, motor vehicle departments, stores and stadiums. It's just beginning to make inroads at public schools, but its use is contentious and has m
(From ICEF Monitor) While the United States remains the world’s leading study destination, international student enrollment in the U.S. is down for the past two years, reports NAFSA: Association of International Educator
(From FEI) One of the fastest-growing intelligent automation technologies is robotic process automation. RPA takes over repetitive, standardized transactional work that until recently only humans could perform. Finance i
Accounting
Cash Management
(From Journal of Accountancy) In late May, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a standard that makes non-for-profits eligible for the private company alternatives on accounting for goodwill and accounting for
(From Inside Higher Ed) In many communities, the competitive nature of the college application process leaves many students feeling inadequate because their college goals don't include attending the most prestigious of i
(From Forbes.com) With the Internet of Things and all things digital, there’s a revolution afoot in the nature of work. Education will have to change to ready students for the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.” Schools will
(From Christensen Institute) Even elite colleges and universities are facing a shortfall in enrollment this year because of demographic declines and a business model that is no longer working, according to Alana Dunagan,
(From The Atlantic and JC Associates) College counselors at elite secondary schools are vulnerable to quitting when parents make unreasonable demands and act belligerently, as detailed in a recent story in The Atlantic.
(From Edspaces Insights) Many students, in particular those with ADHD, spend a lot of time fidgeting in classrooms, which can be a distraction for others. At the same time, movement has been shown to improve learning out
(From Marketing Advice for Schools) The Institute of School Business Leaders identified marketing as a skill on par with human resources, finance, procurement and infrastructure in a recent presentation. Marketing is not
Cybersecurity
Risk Management
Technology
(From Ars Technica and FEI) Despite several large-scale malware attacks that have affected school systems and public entities across the nation in the past few years, many institutions haven't heeded warnings about beefi
(from the New York Times) One consequence of the ongoing Brexit debate, whose deadline has been extended until late October, is that British private schools are suffering declines in enrollment and having to change their
(From The Hechinger Report) Local residents are footing the bill for better preschool programs in several cities across the country, drastically bringing down the costs. For example, the average cost of center-based care
(From Stanford Social Innovation Review) When organizations employ "diversity checkboxes" to increase representation of the underrepresented, for example, by simply increasing the number of diverse employees on staff, th
(From Inside Higher Ed) Accreditation cannot be taken as a signal of long-term financial health because accreditors often do not indicate financial trouble in their reports until a year or two before a college or univers
(from EAB) In the last several years, fewer than 40 percent of college admissions directors have hit their targets on May 1, traditionally deposit day. Three tips to bounce back and make strategic adjustments to avoid co
