Magna Online Seminar
Improving Financial Management in Academic Programs
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As if you haven’t noticed, the financial screws are tightening at universities and colleges.
Tuition and fee rates from 2000-2010 outpaced inflation (by 2.6% at private four-year, 4.9% at public four-year, and 1.8% at public 2-year schools) while appropriations decreased (12% lower in fiscal year 2009 than a decade earlier).
As these financial resources dwindle, the level of accountability steadily increases, putting more pressure on a school’s financial officers. However, we’ve reached the point where managing expenses can no longer be heaped solely on your college’s financial department.
Today financial sustainability is a team effort, and only the schools who understand the new paradigm will succeed.
The audio online seminar Improving Financial Management in Academic Programs can help you adapt to this challenging environment. The seminar will help you learn how to measure the financial sustainability of classes, programs and schools, and then use that information to reallocate resources and improve your decision making.
Using Financial Sustainability Analysis to Drive Decisions
In today’s uncertain economic climate, it’s important that your faculty and staff grasp your school’s overall financial picture. The audio online seminar will show you how to:
- Educate your faculty and staff on your college’s finances. You’ll be able to understand and articulate the “subsidy-economics” inherent in higher education, and explain to your school why new tools are essential for moving forward.
- Form a cross-functional team to analyze financial sustainability. You’ll see how to create a Financial Sustainability Analysis (FSA), and then integrate FSA into your strategic planning, program review, budgeting and other financial functions.
- Use your FSA to free financial resources and improve decision making. FSA will help your people make equitable, rational decisions in areas such as hiring, determining class size, scheduling classes and other challenging financial decisions.
Instructor Clint Ewell will provide an in-depth analysis of case studies and poll you for your reaction. He’ll also provide you with background information, a “next-steps” guide, and other valuable resources.
Experienced Presenter
Clint Ewell brings extensive experience in higher education financials to the presentation. Clint has served in a variety of administrative capacities in higher education and is currently the vice president for finance and administration at Yavapai College in Prescott, AZ. He has spoken in a variety of forums, providing insights into higher education quality and financials at NQEC, Achieving the Dream, SCUP, CCBO and the HLC Annual Conference.
A great value
The cost to attend this audio online seminar is $229 per location, whether you include a single participant, an entire department, or even your whole administration. Your school’s finances involve more than just the people in your finance department. Be sure to invite everyone involved in your institution's financial functions.
Who should attend?
Anyone affiliated with a 2-year or 4-year public or private college or university; specific positions and audiences include:
- Provosts
- Deans
- Chairs
- Chief Financial Officers
- Chief Administrative Officers
- Institutional Researchers
Recorded: 8/24/2010
Featured Presenter:
 | Clint Ewell |
Clint Ewell earned his BA in History from the University of Notre Dame and is a graduate of the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northweste... Read more...
Campus Access
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