I don’t know exactly when the move toward creating strategic plans began. I’m thinking it was higher education’s response to the quality emphasis that industry had embraced in the late eighties and early nineties. At any rate, a process was created and certain outcomes expected. A series of long meetings were held, resulting in thick […]

For many of us in the higher education world, returning from the Christmas break is not always welcomed.  For residential campuses, the second semester is typically less populated than the first.  If the change is too large, the financial plan can be in trouble.  Then, there is the influence on next year’s budget, brought on […]

Detroit’s historic bankruptcy filing this week gives us all pause for thought.  The blogosphere has no shortage of opinions on why the city had to resort to such a drastic action.  People blame unions, auto manufacturers, the one or two percent of highest earners, even the federal government. Most who have had responsibility for an […]