NACUBO, the country’s leading association for business and finance officers at colleges and universities, has created a new executive education program in partnership with ABC Insights, a HelioCampus company. The Master Class in Financial Transformation During COVID-19 is a curated series of workshops that offers participants the opportunity to engage with leading subject matter experts and their peers on topics critical to navigating the ongoing pandemic and explore strategies and solutions. Each session tackles a specific challenge and the interactive format includes breakouts, report-outs and emerging practice-sharing.

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“Colleges and universities are facing extraordinary and unprecedented business challenges as a result of COVID-19,” said Jim Hundrieser, NACUBO’s vice president for consulting and business development. “NACUBO is excited to offer five sessions for business and finance officers this fall, featuring experts from top higher education consulting firms and offering hands-on, practical support.”

NACUBO is partnering with ABC Insights, a HelioCampus company, in this offering, which was developed in collaboration with Dr. Paul Friga, a strategy professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and vice president, strategy at HelioCampus. ABC Insights and its parent company, HelioCampus, provide strategic decision support and insights for institutions to grow resources, maximize returns of academic programs and optimize administrative spend. Since the spring, Dr. Friga has facilitated and led more than a dozen webinars and has written extensively for industry publications about strategies for universities to survive and thrive through COVID-19.

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“To secure their future, institutions must make key changes to operate more strategically and sustainably, with financial transformation at the center of this work,” said Dr. Friga. “The degree of difficulty and stakes could not be higher, so our goal with this series is to provide university leaders with the expertise, support and applied action-learning they need to create a plan and chart their way forward with confidence.”

The Master Class in Financial Transformation During COVID-19 is for chief business and finance officers at U.S. colleges and universities. Enrollment will be capped at 90 participants on a first-enrolled, first-accepted basis and each participant will be assigned to a cohort of their peers based on institution type to best facilitate productive and relevant small group work. The five-part series begins on October 9 with live, 90-minute sessions held biweekly through December 2 on the following topics:

  • Understanding and Managing Financial Realities
  • Drive Greater Organizational Effectiveness
  • Aligning Faculty Effort to Institutional Mission: Leveraging Traditional Scholarship to Optimize Academic Resources
  • Driving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Administrative Services
  • Post-Pandemic – The Future of Higher Education

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