Students, parents, and higher education leaders alike have spent much of the spring wondering if college and university campuses will reopen in the fall of 2020. If so, how many...

Eugene Sunshine retired from his position as Senior Vice President for Business and Finance at Northwestern University in 2014. With almost 30 years’ experience in higher education...

The virulent tsunami of COVID-19 has left industry scrambling to adapt their practices and deal with the fallout from catastrophic business disruption. Read more.

The COVID-19 pandemic and attending economic turmoil have the role of higher education CFO extraordinarily challenging. Institutions need to prepare for a wide range of possible outcomes. Read our tips on how.

Is the budgeting process getting you down? If you’re finance leader at a higher education institution, read more on you can shorten your institution's cycle and forecast for the coming years.

Integrated strategic-financial planning processes help colleges and universities connect their strategic and operational plans, understand their risks, and better adapt to change. Track...

Two out of three higher education finance leaders don’t believe their institution’s business model is sustainable over the next five to 10 years. Meanwhile, 64 percent of finance...

2019 brings new and continued challenges for higher education, as well as new opportunities to innovate.

It’s time for higher education CFOs to ground their institution’s goals in financial realities—and that requires more robust data and a more modern financial planning approach.

Read for a high-quality process for allocating capital resources, and how it fits into a recommended planning and funding cycle.

The breadth of investments at a University should include a contemporary definition of capital resources for improved, more evolved resource planning and allocation in your institution.

Leaders must thoroughly take into account the various operational and strategic tradeoffs, long-term ramifications, and need for sustainability.