Number of Recordings: 10

NACUBO Consulting offers free, 30-minute webinars throughout the year. Registration for this series includes access to past and future recordings from 2023.

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Number of Recordings: 13

The NACUBO 2023 Annual Meeting in Orlando focuses on transformation, leadership, and advocacy—tools we all need in our roles to be effective in delivering on our shared higher education mission. Together with our members, NACUBO reflects on our roles in transforming higher education to meet tomorrow’s demands and advocates for smart and sensible higher education policies.

Number of Recordings: 10

NACUBO’s 2023 Planning, Budgeting, and Analytics Forum offers strategies for higher education goal setting and resource management. Focusing on institutional planning, this program provides content to help business officers and their teams use data and allocate resources—including financial, facilities and infrastructure, and human resources—to support their institutions and students.

Number of Recordings: 4

This series on Facilities Stewardship engages active business leaders to share their insights on tools and techniques that they are using to understand, reimagine, and reinvest in the physical campus for the greatest benefit to the communities they serve.

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Join us for this half-hour session where NACUBO policy experts provide valuable insights into key legislative and regulatory developments as we approach year-end. We'll cover the two-part continuing resolution, must-pass year-end legislative issues, recent regulatory final rules, and what's on the horizon as Congress reconvenes after the winter break. Stay informed about these developments and their implications for your business office as we step into the new year.

Join AACRAO and NACUBO staff as we discuss the Education Department’s recently released regulations that aim to strengthen accountability for higher education and the new provisions that will change the practice of transcript withholding.

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Learn from a panel of experts about unitization and dollarization methodologies, the pros and cons of each, and various applications using college and university examples.

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In this webinar, learn how Cal Poly Humboldt State University sought to improve visibility and transparency with both its internal (faculty, staff, executive management, deans, department heads, etc.) and external stakeholders (students, donors, alumni, and the greater community). The panelists discuss how you can increase trust and foster dialogue through more transparent budgeting practices.

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Baker Tilly and NACUBO partnered with a group of senior institutional leaders (Presidents, CBOs/CFOs, CAOs, and system executives) to develop a framework for sustaining a stable (or better yet, thriving) operating environment. This webinar reviews the deliverables created that include easily applied tools, with data commonly available, that help institutions understand the institution’s current state, practical assessments of current state, ways to measure progress to achieve the desired operating state, and a guide that includes steps that move an institution toward a transformed (or revised) mode of operating.

This webinar reviews the importance of information reporting, recommendations for completing the IRS Form 1098-T, best practices for collecting taxpayer identification numbers, and guidance on responding to IRS penalty notices. The information covered is helpful to beginners and serve as a refresher to campus staff with experience preparing 1098-T forms.

This webinar provides an overview of the changes in average discounting rates during the 2020-21 through 2022-22 academic years and provides more details about the pricing and enrollment strategies private colleges have considered to deal rising student financial need and other factors. The panelists discuss the complex factors that go into new tuition discounting, enrollment, and financial aid strategies, and provide their early assessment of how strategies might need to change due to the Supreme Court’s actions.

In this webinar, panelists share draft material from an in-progress analytics guide. The guide will help colleges and universities build and sustain data-informed cultures. Resources in the guide will address topics such as data strategy, data literacy, data governance, analytics capacity, the ethical use of data, and more. Join us to hear more about the forthcoming guide and learn how you can provide valuable feedback to enhance related activities and resources.

This webinar focuses on ways business officers must embrace data to overcome the stigma of the “budget blocker” given the challenging financial landscape ahead and evolve as strategic shepherds and investors of the institutional mission. The speakers share common themes, challenges, and takeaways related to institutional change management, data-informed cultures, and collective visioning.

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NACUBO experts dive deep into the present political landscape of Washington and share insights that will empower your strategic planning and ensure you're well prepared for the shifts that await on the legislative and administrative fronts. Topics discussed include the latest appropriations discussions, potential tax-related developments, upcoming rulemaking efforts from the Department of Education, the expected FLSA proposal, and more.

This webinar covers how colleges and universities can accurately use enrollment forecasting models to project anticipated revenues and student counts. Attendees can learn about the difficulties of forecasting enrollment, the benefits of implementing models to project enrollment, and the ways that technology can play a role in better anticipating revenue.

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NACUBO's research team works with the association's policy, advocacy, and professional development staff to produce well-informed and data-driven solutions for NACUBO members. Using an interactive approach, the panelists explore NACUBO’s signature research studies and how they can help inform institutional decision making. Audience members determine the focus of this session, with potential topics including tuition discounting practices, college and university endowments, or student financial services benchmarking.

This webinar explores strategic partnerships to drive programmatic or geographic expansion, alternative delivery models, real estate opportunities, and economies of scale. Purdue University discusses various acquisitions and partnerships including its Kaplan/Purdue University Global transaction, its agreements with Duke Energy, and its plans for an adjacent neighborhood hospital. New York University discusses its expansion strategy in neighboring Brooklyn.

NACUBO provides members myriad services and resources that offer guidance and support for data-informed decision-making practices. Using an interactive approach, the panelists explore a variety of solutions and endeavors in the works. Learn how to apply NACUBO’s analytics resources to any stage of your institution’s data journey—whether that’s addressing data and analytics challenges or leveraging data to support student success.

Hear from panelists as they reflect on how the finance function is evolving and adapting to meet this particular moment and how finance leaders are preparing for whatever comes next. The webinar will cover results from Prophix’s recent Finance Leaders Survey, best practices for strategic financial planning and analysis, and seven steps to process evolution. Learn how to spark your own financial transformation to help your institution be decision-ready for today and prepared for tomorrow.

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There have been two major waves of college and university campus construction in recent history: the first beginning in the 1950s and the second in the early 2000s. It is expected that buildings from both eras will require substantial reinvestment to accommodate future students and faculty. This webinar explores the campus of the future, with engineered spaces fueled by private capital that are designed to foster collaboration, innovation, and community.

In this webinar, panelists present findings from a recent study conducted by Amazon Web Services and NACUBO about the use of data and analytics in higher education, the investments institutions are making, and the impact of data and organizational silos on institutions’ ability to use data to inform decision-making. Panelists share recommendations to help institutional leaders make the most of their data.

Research confirms that the mental health of students has become a substantial risk to institutional enrollment and has compounding impacts for how institutions best respond. This webinar will share trends and best practices in reducing the financial, institutional, and emotional risks of declining student mental health. 

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This webinar outlines changes in federal student aid policy attached to the FAFSA Simplification Act, implementation dates, and anticipated changes to current practices on campus. Panelists review changes that will impact business offices and examine the institutional partnerships necessary to navigate those changes. 

During this panel discussion, you’ll learn how higher education finance teams are adapting strategies and processes to prepare for significant headwinds for higher education, including rethinking operational budgeting, analyzing tuition revenue and fee structures, and establishing long-term financial plans. You’ll also hear how colleges and universities use modern budgeting and planning technologies to quickly respond to shifting economic conditions and ensure long-term financial stability.

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Tune in for NACUBO's spring 2023 update on what’s happening in Washington and learn about federal actions that will impact your campus. Learn more about a wide range of issues that impact students and institutions, such as:

• Updates on congressional budget negotiations and the implications for students and institutions
• The latest news from the Department of Education concerning agency rulemaking efforts
• NACUBO advocacy action items and other new developments