What economic trends today will set the stage for the future? How will legislative actions impact student financial aid? What accounting policy or reporting changes are on the horizon? Navigating the business of higher education institutions requires knowledge about a variety of issues—from finance to campus security. In this podcast series, hear colleagues, experts, and industry leaders explore issues, provide best practices, offer solutions to new questions that may not have been asked bef ...
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Flywire’s Sharon Butler Shares Insights and Research on International Payments
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Sharon Butler is deeply familiar with the “uneasiness and concerns” that international students face when it comes to paying tuition and other expenses. As Executive Vice President of Global Education at Flywire, a global payments enablement company that partners with institutions across the world, she is looking for solutions to these problems. In…
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Congressional Catch-Up: A Spring 2024 Legislative Outlook
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On the heels of a recent fly-in advocacy day on Capitol Hill, NACUBO’s director, government affairs, Ashley Jackson speaks with policy and advocacy manager Neil Gavigan about the state of play in Congress. The conversation touches on highlights from that fly-in and examines how fallout from the protracted FY24 appropriations process, along with upc…
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The “Better FAFSA” Rollout: Where Are We Now?
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Every year, students and families rely on federal student aid to make decisions about higher education. As the Department of Education has struggled to implement a streamlined version of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), pressure has steadily increased on students, families, and the institutions that serve them. In this episode,…
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NACUBO’s President, Kara Freeman, Delves Into Resilience with Two Higher Ed Leaders
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In this special episode, Kara Freeman, NACUBO’s president and CEO, interviews two familiar higher education colleagues about their recent book, The Resilient University: How Purpose and Inclusion Drive Student Success. Throughout the conversation, Freeman Hrabowski III, president emeritus, and Lynne Schaefer, vice president emerita for finance and …
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2024 Federal Outlook for Finance and Funding with GFOA’s Emily Brock
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NACUBO’s Liz Clark, vice president, policy and research, speaks with Emily Brock from the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) about what’s expected from Washington policymakers this year. Emily is director of GFOA’s Federal Liaison Center and shares her thoughts on what legislative and regulatory actions may impact financings (bonds) and…
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Cybercrime and Higher Education: How One Institution Responded to an Attack
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In a conversation based around their NACUBO 2023 Annual Meeting session, Lou Mayer, chief finance officer, vice president of finance and treasurer and Tej Patel, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Stevens Institute of Technology talk with Neil Gavigan, policy and advocacy manager at NACUBO about cyberattacks …
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Breaking Down Silos to Create and Sustain Equitable Student Outcomes
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On this all-NACUBO episode of the podcast, Liz Clark, vice president, policy and research speaks with Kelli Rainey, senior director, grant programs about Kelli’s ongoing work to help institutions strategically finance equitable student outcomes. Supported by a series of multi-year grants, this effort has partnered NACUBO with a diverse group of 26 …
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Why MSU Denver Chose to Raise Its Minimum Wage
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Chris Harder, senior fiscal operations manager for student affairs at Metropolitan State University of Denver joins NACUBO’s Bryan Dickson, director, student financial services and educational programs, for a conversation about MSU Denver’s decision to pay its lowest earners more than legally required. Referring to the move as an “investment in the…
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Mauve Group CEO Ann Ellis Shares Global Operations Solutions
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NACUBO’s Liz Clark, vice president, policy and research speaks with Ann Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Mauve Group. Together, they discuss Ann’s early work as an educator and how Mauve Group has grown to offer a variety of global operations services in more than 100 countries “from Japan to Chile.” After realizing there were opportunities to offer ne…
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Analyzing Student Data to Drive Satisfaction and Retention
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Building on their institution’s legacy of serving disadvantaged students, Penny Evans-Plants, chief information officer and Zach Sherwin, director of enterprise analytics at Berry College join NACUBO’s Bryan Dickson, director of student financial services and educational programs to discuss their ongoing efforts to leverage existing data to better …
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Top 5 Higher Education Business Issues of 2023
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With input from business officers at public and private colleges and universities across the country, NACUBO recently identified the most-pressing higher education business issues in 2023. NACUBO’s 2023 Rising Star Award recipient, Katie Walker, assistant vice president for finance at the University of Virginia, joins Liz Clark, vice president for …
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Higher Ed Enrollment Management Under the Microscope
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As we enter a new academic year and colleges and universities welcome new and returning students, NACUBO In Brief speaks with enrollment experts. In a conversation addressing different challenges facing enrollment officers, lessons learned from the pandemic, and more, Neil Gavigan, NACUBO’s policy and advocacy manager, sits down with Fabrizio D’Alo…
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NACUBO's new podcast Career Conversations, featuring insights and advice for business professionals new to higher education, starts airing biweekly on September 8th. Make sure to subscribe!NACUBO
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More is Possible With Higher Education
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Discussing the latest release in NACUBO’s state of higher education series: More is Possible with Higher Education, NACUBO’s director, student financial services and educational programs, Bryan Dickson, speaks with senior director, analytics, Lindsay Wayt. Together, they examine some of the ways that higher education benefits students, communities,…
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What's Happening in the Nation's Capital?
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Where do things stand for higher education as the Biden Administration attempts to govern with a now divided congress? What would a U.S. debt default – or a political deal – entail for institutions? Will the U.S. Supreme Court's judgments on student debt relief and the use of affirmative action practices in the admissions process have a significant…
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Mergers and Affiliations in Higher Education
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Nobody wants a college to close, but enrollment and demographic trends, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, are requiring some colleges to consider what steps they may need to take to survive and thrive. For some, the only option may be a merger or affiliation with another institution. Join Michael B. Alexander, President, Lasell University; Kasi…
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Top Five Higher Education Business Issues: Meeting Students’ Evolving Needs
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In the final episode of a five-part series based on NACUBO’s Top Five Higher Education Business Issues of 2022 project, five members of the higher education community weigh in on the most pressing challenges facing students and what their organizations are doing to help create positive change. Responding to a two-part question from Neil Gavigan, NA…
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Top Five Higher Education Business Issues: Supporting and Maintaining the Workforce
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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 …
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Top Five Higher Education Business Issues: Providing Secure & Modern Technology Infrastructure
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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” t…
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Top Five Higher Education Business Issues: Navigating Resource Constraints
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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 Pen…
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Top Five Higher Education Business Issues: Managing an Uncertain Economic Climate
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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 2…
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Vanderbilt University Goes Cashless
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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 Vanderbil…
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Legislative LunchCast On The Go: December 2021
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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 &…
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Legislative Lunchcast On The Go: October 2021
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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 & …
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Get to Know the NACUBO In Brief Team and the Issues They are Following
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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 an…
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IHEP’s Data-Informed Efforts to Help Students Complete and Succeed
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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 …
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Winner of the 2021 Excellence in Sustainability Award: How Compost Cats Flourished at the University of Arizona
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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. Togeth…
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How to Better Prepare Your Employees & Students for a Post-Pandemic World
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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 mar…
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Leveraging HEERF Allocations for Student Success: the Texas A&M International University Story
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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 be…
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Using Synario to Create the Financial Models You Need for Strategic Scenario Planning
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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-te…
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Supporting Students From Low-Income Backgrounds
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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 professio…
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NACUBO’s State of Higher Education Project
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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 …
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Strategic Finance and Courageous Leadership
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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 collaborat…
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NAICU’s Emmanual Guillory Reports on COVID Impact on Fall Enrollment
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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 …
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NASFAA President Justin Draeger Shares the Ins and Outs of Income Share Agreements
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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 s…
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The CARES Act Impact on Community Colleges
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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 Educa…
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NACUBO's Kat Masterson Shares Lessons Learned from the 2019 NACUBO Tuition Discounting Study
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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 Vi…
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Endowments: How are colleges responding to current needs without shortchanging the future?
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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, “institu…
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The Coronavirus Economy and Charitable Giving
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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 ho…
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COVID-19: Navigating the Uncertainty COVID-19 Brings to Colleges and Universities
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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?…
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Changing Societal Demographics and Pressure on Tuition Revenue
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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…
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What are the challenges of merging two colleges?
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New Insights from the NACUBO-TIAA Study of Endowments
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Why is Financial Literacy Education so Important for Students and Institutions?
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The Science and Art of Campus Building Investments
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How does the physical footprint of a college campus evolve while its leaders balance the costs of new technologies, interest rates, construction, real estate, and deferred maintenance? The mechanical complexities of this ecosystem are only the first part of the conversation; what happens when you add the emotional ties your constituencies may have …
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Strategic planning's impact on sustainability efforts
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Sustainability efforts on campus are no longer limited to environmental sustainability. Diversity and inclusion, social justice, and economic impact — among others — are all efforts requiring sustainability thinking. Bringing leadership together with faculty and student constituencies to build a governance structure to institutionalize these effort…
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Translating financial information
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George Washington University Associate Vice President & University Controller Sharon Heinle sits down with NACUBO’s senior director of accounting policy Sue Menditto to discuss the need to translate financial information for non-financial people effectively. The Controller’s Office at GW is the waystation for a wide variety of financial information…
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Looking at institutional financial health using a student-centered metric
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Tom Simard is Deputy Commissioner for Finance and Administration at the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education and he joins NACUBO’s Bryan Dickson, assistant director for advocacy and student financial services. Massachusetts is stepping up to face the question of institutional solvency with a new metric that aims to better understand the nat…
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Protecting student privacy and information security in a federal student data system
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Joanna Gramma is a senior consultant at Vantage Technology Consulting Group and she joins NACUBO’s Megan Schneider, senior director of government affairs, to take on a subject at the intersection of technology and higher education: centralizing a new set of higher education student and institution data at the federal level. Many institutions alread…
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The Public-Private Partnership builds steam at Syracuse
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Syracuse University SVP and CFO Amir Rahnamay-Azar knows a thing or two about steam. His university’s steam generator has been providing power and more for decades across the university. When it came time for a major retrofit, it came time to revisit facilities that were core to the operation of the institution. As he says, “I need steam, not a ste…
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