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Academic Efficiencies Featured

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

Featured Sustainable Business Models

November 29, 2023

Moving beyond the enrollment cliff: Lessons learned in scaling & sustaining adult enrollment

As institutions continue to navigate pandemic-related enrollment declines, a new challenge looms on the horizon.

Mike Daly

Sustainable Business Models

September 25, 2023

Stewardship, sustainability, and student success: What we learned in ‘summer school’

Be it the warmth or the reminiscence of childhood, summer naturally lends itself to the feeling of exploration. It is a season well suited to pushing boundaries, learning, and self-revitalization.…

rpk GROUP

Higher ed leaders discussing financial decisions

Strategic Finance

June 21, 2023

HEERF funding: A lifeline for higher education institutions, but a missed chance for reinvention?

The COVID-19 pandemic has left an indelible mark on the world, with U.S. higher education institutions significantly affected. In response, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES)…

Donna Desrochers

Academic Efficiencies

October 10, 2022

Looking past survival: What today’s institutions need to thrive

Higher ed leaders are managing a lot these days: high staff turnover rates, increasing student needs for academic and mental health support, revenue shortfalls, and dated technology. How can they…

Katie Hagan

Student Success

May 31, 2022

Improving affordability and student success: a parent’s perspective

Parents and students should know that many colleges, universities, systems, and foundations are deeply invested in improving affordability and student outcomes.

Donna Desrochers

Leading Change Uncategorized

May 9, 2022

It’s time to tell the truth

What’s the truth that you need to tell? And how might you best tell it to bring students, faculty and staff along with you?

Richard Staisloff

Leading Change

April 21, 2022

Building Toward a Post Pandemic Future – EACUBO Spring Gathering 2022

I had to remember how to do it. You get on the train. Uber to the hotel. Put on your lavalier mic. But after two full years of virtual engagement with…

Richard Staisloff

Leading Change

February 23, 2022

On embracing discomfort and the future of higher education

We’ve all been through a tough two years, especially those in leadership positions. Do we pull back from the discomfort? Or do we, as leaders, embrace it?

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