Campus CFO

This paper by the Center for Digital Education covers the various ways institutions are successfully funding lecture capture solutions.

For-profit education company Career Education Corp reports Michael Graham, its CFO of five years, has resigned, sending the firm's shares down 8 percent after the bell.

In this timely book, financial consultant and experienced college administrator Mike Townsley examines the financial and strategic resources that private colleges and universities must have in place to withstand the storm.

After a months-long collaboration with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Department of Education has released a new, standardized format for financial aid award letters. ED encourages-but does not require-colleges and universities to implement the format for the 2013-14 year.

October 17-19, 2012
Caesar's Palace
Las Vegas, Nevada

The seventh edition of Strategic Financial Analysis for Higher Education (members: $25; nonmembers $33.75) reflects observations on the paradigm shift that has occurred in the financial management of higher education institutions. They include enterprise risk management, liquidity, internal financial reporting, resource allocation, debt management, and financial analysis and metrics.

Christine Saadi, Director of Student Financial Planning at Alvernia University, and S&K's Jen Wick presented “Together We Stand, Without Data We Fall” at the 2012 NASFAA national conference in Chicago, IL.

Over the past two decades the balance of cost sharing for public higher education has shifted dramatically toward the student.

The vast majority of independent, private sector, higher education institutions are more than 80 percent dependent on tuition and student fees—the exception of course being that small cadre of elite, well-endowed institutions that comprise a small percent (less than 10 percent) of private schools. Even most of the nation’s public colleges and universities are increasingly dependent on tuition revenues and often student headcount affects the allocation of state support.