Author: CAUBO Communications

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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 Provincial Landscapes provide insight into the significant differences in university funding models between provinces, as identified and explored through CAUBO’s data-rich … Continue reading “New Resource Available: Quebec Financial Landscape”

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”

CAUBO members understand the urgency of addressing climate change. Most CAUBO members have set, or are planning to set, a goal to become net-zero or carbon neutral. Measuring GHG emissions across the entire value chain is a crucial step to setting and achieving the institution’s reduction targets and goals. In 2022, CAUBO issued the Common … Continue reading “New Resource Available: Measuring Emissions Related to University Investment Holdings”

CAUBO, through a continued partnership with the Université du Quebec, has updated the FTE-based dashboard series to include the most recently available data. The dashboards, which incorporate student and faculty FTE data, allow members to benchmark with their peers across the country on relevant areas such as research income, provincial funding, and teaching and administrative … Continue reading “Updated tool: FTE-based dashboards”

Canadian universities collect, store, and manage large quantities of data to support their academic, research, and administrative pursuits. However, for many universities, data governance is not well understood or mature. Further, the decentralization of institutional data can lead to concerns about its quality, accessibility, and reliability. This is critical for maintaining credibility and making data-driven … Continue reading “New Resource: Data Governance Framework for Canadian Universities”

As restrictions imposed due to the pandemic have ended, member institutions continue to explore new approaches to work models, including whether flexible work arrangements can be adopted, to what extent, and how they can be achieved in a strategic manner. In early 2023, CAUBO released a survey to provide an update on members’ plans and … Continue reading “New Resource Available: Results of the 2023 Hybrid Work Arrangements Survey”