Economies of Scale and Higher Ed: What Postsecondary Leaders Can Learn from Industry

By Jeffrey Camm - EvoLLLution. 1. What are some of the most significant areas of inefficiency higher education leaders struggle with in institutional management?
There’s a lot of pressure on presidents and boards of trustees to control costs, and not surprisingly so, because the cost of higher education if you look at the last 10, 15 years, has far exceeded inflation. There’s extreme pressure to bring the cost of higher education down. A lot of the focus on efficiency is cost driven and, if you think about how universities work, especially state universities, you know they try to be all things to all people. More...