Effective card offices focus on bottom-line growth. "Two of the benefits we bring to our campus are cost reduction and revenue growth," says John Beckwith, director of campus business services at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. For instance, before its single-card program launched in 1997, the campus had seven different cards for students to use, with […]

Eight years ago administrators laying plans for Guttman Community College in New York City set a goal: This school would not be like so many other community colleges with low completion rates. Guttman would make getting students to graduation a primary mission. That approach is proliferating across the community college sector, says Melinda Mechur Karp, assistant […]

With college students increasingly calling on schools to divest endowments from fossil fuels, Becker College in Massachusetts became the first institution to mandate that all of its investments generate a positive impact on society—and a targeted financial return. "As a college that is educating the next generation of global citizens, prepared to solve our most pressing social […]

The new higher education alliances cropping up are not just of the regional variety. A group of private colleges and universities created a consortium in fall 2015 to negotiate better deals on enterprise resource planning systems, which can account for up to 4 percent of an institution's entire annual budget. The Higher Education Systems and […]