Academic Portfolios

Academic Efficiencies

April 5, 2024

Unpacking Program Demand: Exploring Enrollment Concentration in Academic Portfolios

Across rpk’s work with over 200 higher education institutions, one thing has always held true: some academic program offerings demonstrate much higher demand from students.

Rilie Kafer

Leading Change

November 9, 2023

Ready for your next academic portfolio review? See this decision framework first

By Katie Hagan and Charlotte Pierce Colleges and universities often look to their peers for insights and best practice when preparing to launch critical change management initiatives. This is especially…

Richard Staisloff

Academic Efficiencies Leading Change

April 27, 2023

Do less better

How do we do less in higher ed, and do it better? It starts with truly understanding the ROI to our students, employers, institutions and state/systems.

Richard Staisloff

Academic Efficiencies

November 5, 2021

Connecting college and careers: A new market-based opportunity for college leaders

rpk’s new Market Demand & Opportunity (MDO) offering brings an external lens that’s essential in creating a sustainable business model.

Donna Desrochers

Leading Change Student Success

October 13, 2021

Market Demand and Opportunity (MDO) Analysis

Designed to produce results that honor institutions' Mission, Market, and Margin®, the MDO framework provides three distinct components: academic portfolio alignment, program gap analysis and competitor analysis.

rpk GROUP

Academic Efficiencies

December 22, 2020

How healthy is your academic portfolio?

Market scans can help optimize the academic portfolio in ways that achieve financial sustainability. Here are three valuable lessons we learned during a recent analysis.

Richard Staisloff