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Share Your Insights in CAUBO’s Trend Talks Series Submissions as part of this first series of content selections will be accepted until November 22, 2024, at 5:00 pm (ET). Does your organization have a pulse on emerging domestic or global trends that are expected to have a substantive impact on the Canadian higher education administration … Continue reading “Trend Talk Series – Call for Proposals”

In early 2024, members of CAUBO’s Enterprise Risk and Assurance (ERA) Community of Practice group developed a survey to collect information on enterprise risk management (ERM) program design. The member survey collected information regarding members’ ERM programs, including the organizational structure, framework and technology used as well as institutional strategic risk registers, risk appetite frameworks … Continue reading “Results of the CAUBO 2024 ERM Benchmarking Survey”

A survey was released in 2023-24 to identify the key factors that impact financial sustainability across the country and barriers to the implementation of mitigation measures. The survey results indicated that the most significant stressor to financial sustainability related to funding or insufficiency thereof. Two of the top five most significant barriers were experienced across … Continue reading “Results of the 2024 CAUBO Financial Sustainability Survey: State, Stressors, Barriers, and Strategies”

Canada is in the throes of a housing crisis. A lack of both availability and affordability is being exacerbated by a concurrent cost-of-living crisis, brought on by rapid and significant post-pandemic inflation. Universities and their students are also experiencing the effects of this crisis. Housing departments on campuses across Canada are feeling a pressing need … Continue reading “Upcoming Resource: Framework to Inform Higher Education Student Housing Plans”

Canada’s higher education institutions have a significant role to play in mitigating the impacts of climate change and enabling the transition to a low-carbon economy through their institutional operating practices, community engagement, and the research and education that take place on their campuses, all while striving to manage and adapt to the climate risks affecting … Continue reading “New Resource: Results of the 2023 Climate Change and Sustainability Survey”

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Canadian universities continue to experience mounting financial pressures as income sources required to fund an expanding expense base have become increasingly volatile and have not kept pace with enrolments, thus requiring institutions to do more with less. Administrators often look to resource allocation models to manage resources effectively and efficiently. In the fall of 2023, … Continue reading “New Resource Available: Results of the 2023 Resource Allocation Survey”

CAUBO’s Data Insights series highlights key financial trends in the university sector. The Data Insights provide concise, yet fact-based analysis of some of the sector’s most pressing risks and challenges. The complete Data Insights series has now been updated to reflect the most recent available data (2021-2022). The updated entries in the series are available at the links … Continue reading “New Resources Available: Updated Data Insights”

CAUBO has developed a series of financial landscapes, focusing on critical areas within Canadian universities. Through the Landscape series, financial trends in higher education are explored at the national, provincial, and institutional levels. The 2023 National Financial Landscape is now available for members. The National Landscape has been updated to include the most recent data (2021-2022) … Continue reading “New Resource: The 2023 National Financial Landscape of Canadian Universities”