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Proposals accepted now through Wednesday, October 18, 2023 CAUBO builds the capacity of leaders in the higher education sector by connecting them with peers and information enabling insights into effective practices, new and different perspectives. Share your expertise, experience, and efforts to strive towards excellence with your peers at CAUBO 2024, taking place from June … Continue reading “CAUBO 2024 Annual Conference Call for Content Proposals is now open!”

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”

Attracting and recruiting talent is a priority that poses many challenges for the higher education sector. CAUBO member universities across Canada are experiencing recruiting challenges, particularly at the management and executive levels. The impact of the pandemic on the workplace landscape has exacerbated these challenges, and many members are looking for new strategies to recruit … Continue reading “New Resource Available: Leading Practices for Higher Education Recruitment: Report on Consultations”

CAUBO has developed a series of financial landscapes, focusing on critical areas within Canadian universities. Financial trends in higher education have been explored at the national, provincial, and institutional level. The provincial landscapes provide insight into the significant differences in the university funding models between provinces, as identified and explored through CAUBO’s data-rich analytical tools … Continue reading “New Resources Available – Nova Scotia and Ontario Financial Landscapes”

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 first two entries in the series, initially released in 2021, address the changing patterns in spendable income and general operating expenditures. They have now … Continue reading “Updated Data Insights Now Available – Changing Patterns in University Revenues and General Operating Expenditures”

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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 2022 National Financial Landscape, released in December 2022, provides an overview of the implications of the pandemic on university finances in … Continue reading “New Resource: The 2022 National Financial Landscape of Canadian Universities”