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Get your submissions in soon for the 2024 CAUBO Q&P Awards! Deadline extended to December 8, 2023 What are the Q&P Awards? Since 1987, CAUBO has celebrated the administrative achievements of its members through the Quality and Productivity (Q&P) Awards—the Oscars of best practices in higher education administration! The concept is simple: reward and share … Continue reading “Have your initiative recognized and celebrated with the CAUBO Q&P Awards!”

Nominations are now open for the 2024 CAUBO Volunteer Recognition Awards Many of us work with incredible, dedicated colleagues who go that extra mile: perhaps they mentor people who are new to the sector or the workplace; take on volunteer roles with CAUBO or other organizations, where they contribute their knowledge and expertise to improve … Continue reading “Honour and recognize a colleague with a CAUBO Recognition Award!”

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”

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’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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