The Academic Leadership Learning Collaborative can help you to:

• Save money and increase efficiency by benchmarking peer spending, resource allocation, and curriculum design
• Develop objective internal assessment and evaluation processes
• Identify and assess new programmatic growth opportunities for specific degree programs
• Understand the competitive dynamics, key drivers, and effective practices in faculty recruitment and retention

• Cost Effective: The membership model allows members to access Eduventures' expert analysts and peer network for a fraction of the cost of proprietary consulting.
  
  
• Increased Efficiency: By learning from peers, members reduce the risk of reinventing the wheel when addressing challenges or launching new initiatives. Additionally, Eduventures’ analysts conduct thorough preliminary research for members to help them allocate limited resources effectively. Finally, our team can help university leaders to decipher and analyze the wealth of data that often exists in house, but is not fully used due to resource constraints.
  
  
• Wisdom of Experience: Eduventures focuses exclusively on higher education, making our team of analysts and practitioners some of the country's leading experts on the sector. (See where our experts have been quoted.) Additionally, through our membership programs, we are in regular contact with thousands of practitioners in the field to ensure the relevance and timeliness of our analysis.
  
  
• Multi-layered Support: We know that campus leaders have a diverse set of challenges, be they recruiting and retaining students, launching new degree programs, or securing resources. Our peer network, broad research into shared challenges, institution-specific analysis, and one-on-one guidance offer members a complex system of support to meet any challenge effectively.

Collaboration With Peers

• Each member is immediately linked into a dynamic peer network to exchange best practices and share solutions to common challenges.
• Members set a research agenda for Eduventures' expert analysts to carry out. We conduct 2-3 membershipwide research projects each year to delve deeply into the most pressing challenges our members face.
• Members come together in person once a year and participate in regular phone and web meetings and discussions about current issues.
• Members have online access to all research reports completed for the program.

Customized Support

• You can consider Eduventures' expert analysts as an extension of your team. They are always available by phone to brainstorm, provide insight, and deliver quick analysis and recommendations to members.
• Each member can commission customized research projects at any time. Eduventures’ analysts work directly with members to design the investigation, deliver the analysis, and guide decision-making based on the results.
• Members can request strategy sessions with our expert advisors – we can work with your staff during a strategic planning retreat on campus or conduct the session via webinar. You can customize this benefit to best meet your institution's needs.

Interested in becoming a member of the Academic Leadership Learning Collaborative? Contact us to get started.

Want to find out what other schools are members? See our institutional client list.

"Our membership in the Learning Collaborative provides us an external perspective as well as models and frameworks for decision-making that would be difficult to develop internally."

Dr. Patricia O'Connell Killen
Provost
Pacific Lutheran University