NACUBO In Brief

In the fourth episode of a five-part series based on NACUBO's Top Five Higher Education Business Issues of 2022 project, Liz Clark, NACUBO's vice president, policy and research, speaks with Andy Brantley, president and CEO of CUPA-HR and Choi Halladay, deputy executive director of business operations at the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. Building on findings from the...

In the third episode of a five-part series based on NACUBO's Top Five Higher Education Business Issues of 2022 project, Bryan Dickson, NACUBO's director, student financial services and educational programs, speaks with José Rodriguez, vice president and chief information officer at Pomona College. Together, they discuss José's "holistic approach" to cybersecurity, opportunities and threats of new...

In the second episode of a five-part series based on NACUBO's Top Five Higher Education Business Issues of 2022 project, NACUBO's vice president for policy and research, Liz Clark, speaks with Jim Hundrieser, NACUBO's vice president for consulting services, and Laurie Bernotsky, executive vice president and provost at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. During their conversation, Liz, Jim, an...

In this episode, the first in a five-part series based on NACUBO's Top Five Higher Education Business Issues of 2022 project, NACUBO's vice president for policy and research, Liz Clark, speaks with Susan Fitzgerald, associate managing director, global higher education and nonprofits, at Moody's Investors Service. In addition to discussing Moody's 2023 outlook for higher education, Liz and Susan to...

As digital payments become increasingly common, many kinds of businesses are pivoting to no longer accept cash. In this episode, Chris Cook, executive director of the office of student accounts at Vanderbilt University, speaks with NACUBO's director, student financial services and educational programs Bryan Dickson about going cashless at Vanderbilt, recognizing that it may not work at all organiz...

In this episode, originally offered on December 15 as part of NACUBO's Legislative Lunchcast webcast series, NACUBO's senior director, government affairs, Megan Schneider, and director, student financial services and educational programs, Bryan Dickson share the latest updates on legislative and regulatory topics affecting higher education. Links & Notes December 15 Legislative Lunchcast HEERF Res...

In this episode, originally offered on October 27 as part of NACUBO's Legislative Lunchcast webcast series, NACUBO's senior director, government affairs, Megan Schneider, and director, student financial services and educational programs, Bryan Dickson share the latest updates on legislative and regulatory topics affecting higher education.   Links & Notes October 27 Legislative Lunchcast HEERF Res...

In this special episode, NACUBO's vice president, policy and research, Liz Clark, chats with senior director, government affairs, Megan Schneider, and director, student financial services and educational programs, Bryan Dickson about the latest from Washington and beyond. Get to know the team better in a conversation that ranges from legislation and policies impacting higher education to the lates...

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and advocacy organization committed to promoting access and success in higher education. In this episode, NACUBO's vice president, policy and research, Liz Clark speaks with the Interim President of IHEP, Mamie Voight, about her organization's efforts to use data and evidence to create equitable and innovative de...

The University of Arizona received NACUBO's 2021 Excellence in Sustainability Award for its Compost Cats program. In this episode, NACUBO's senior director of government affairs, Megan Schneider, is joined by Dr. Ilse Rojas, Compost Cats program manager, and Trevor Ledbetter, director of the Office of Sustainability at University of Arizona. Together, they discuss the award-winning program, which...

Heather E. McGowan, future-of-work strategist and author of The Adaptation Advantage, joins NACUBO's senior director of government affairs Megan Schneider to discuss how to lead in a post-pandemic world. Their conversation ranges from entering the era of human capital and what that means for students preparing for the workforce, to ways you can marry your passions with market needs, and finally ho...

Colleges and universities across the country have benefitted greatly from the COVID-19 relief aid appropriated to higher education by Congress via the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF). While much discussion of HEERF has centered on the primary portion of aid known as the (a)(1) allocations that most schools have received, there has been less discussion of how institutions that also r...

As the COVID-19 pandemic brought sweeping changes to the higher education landscape, institutions have been forced to plan and forecast in a more sophisticated way. In this episode, NACUBO's vice president for policy and research, Liz Clark talks with Derek Freitag, strategic account executive with Synario, to uncover how schools are making long-term adaptations and how Synario can help institutio...

NACUBO's Bryan Dickson, director of student financial services and educational programs, and Lindsay Wayt, director of analytics, discuss the latest edition in NACUBO's State of Higher Education series. Titled "Bold Action Required: How to More Effectively Support Students from Low-Income Backgrounds," the effort calls on higher education professionals to take action to support students from low-i...

How has the pandemic changed the value of a higher education degree and intensified our need to talk about affordability? Why are students of color and lower-income students less likely to attend certain institutions? NACUBO's director of analytics, Lindsay Wayt, joins Liz Clark to talk about the association's State of Higher Education Project and how it's a call to action to help CBOs see, react...

How are colleges and universities responding to the pandemic? Is 2020 truly proving to be an era of transformation? Paul Friga, University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler strategy professor and the co-founder and chief strategy officer of ABC Insights, joins Liz Clark to explore how institutions are taking action and why creativity and collaboration are necessary to tackle the many challenges th...

Emmanual Guillory, director of student and institutional aid policy for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), joins NACUBO Senior Director of Government Affairs Megan Schneider to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fall higher education enrollment. Have we seen an enrollment decrease? "That's a very good question… we are, unfortunately seeing a decl...

Justin Draeger, president and CEO of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators joins NACUBO director of student financial services and educational programs Bryan Dickson to discuss the impact of Income Share Agreements on the higher education landscape. While this space isn't yet regulated, Justin explains that schools have some flexibility to experiment with these alternati...

Brad Kendrex, executive vice president for administration and operations at Chandler-Gilbert Community College and interim vice president for administrative services at Mesa Community College joins NACUBO senior director, government affairs Megan Schneider to discuss the impact of COVID-19 legislative support on community colleges. The Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF) of the CARES Ac...

Private, nonprofit institutions forgo a significant portion of potential revenue to help families offset the cost of college. The 2019 study, conducted before the coronavirus pandemic, indicates that this trend is becoming even more profound. Today on the show, NACUBO Assistant Director for Research and Policy Analysis Kat Masterson joins NACUBO Vice President for Policy and Research Liz Clark to...

Maeesha Merchant, senior vice president and CFO at California Institute of the Arts and Tom Heck, chief investment officer and CFO at the Ball State University Foundation, join NACUBO Vice President Liz Clark to discuss the role of college and university endowments in the current crisis.  "Endowments are not rainy-day funds," says Merchant, "institutions have contractual obligations to our donors"...

Brian Flahaven, senior director for advocacy for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), joins NACUBO's Liz Clark to discuss the impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on charitable giving at colleges and universities. "There's a lot of uncertainty," he says. "Uncertainty is the enemy of charitable giving." Listen in to hear how development and advancement officers are respond...

Susan Whealler Johnston, President and CEO of NACUBO, joins NACUBO vice presidents Jim Hundreiser and Liz Clark to discuss the challenges college and universities are contending with related to the COVID-19 pandemic. How do colleges and universities plan ahead when there are still so many uncertainties? 

Pat Lane serves as Vice President for Policy, Analysis, and Research at the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE). This month, Pat joins Megan Schneider, senior director of government affairs at NACUBO, to educate us about his organization and share the latest results and trends from WICHE's Knocking at the College Door  project. That research is critical in assessing the supp...

A renowned institution, Berklee College of Music, recently underwent a successful merger with the Boston Conservatory, itself a historic music training academy. Now, the Boston Conservatory at Berklee serves as a training ground for music, dance, and theatre.  On this episode, Berklee's Chief Financial Officer, Mac Hisey, and Anne Ogilby, partner at law firm Ropes and Gray, join NACUBO's Liz Clark...