The Development Learning Collaborative improves the effectiveness of institutional advancement efforts by helping generate new ideas, prioritize investment decisions, benchmark staffing and productivity levels, and improve the professional development of staff.
Cost Effective: The membership model allows members to access Eduventures' expert analysts and a peer network for a fraction of the cost of proprietary consulting. We save institutions time, money, and resources by utilizing our research and industry expertise to inform decisions and offer strategic solutions.
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 in 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 for increased institutional efficiency and effectiveness.
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 for our Annual Member Meeting and also participate in regular phone and web meetings and discussions about current issues.
Members have online access to all research reports completed for the program. This rich archive provides just-in-time information to answer pressing questions or spawn a future custom study.
Customized Support
You can consider Eduventures' expert analysts as an extension of your team. Analysts provide strategic brainstorming sessions, insights, and delivery of quick analysis and recommendations to members.
Each member can commission customized research projects throughout the year. 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.
Jennifer Zaslow explains how Development Learning Collaborative members are making use of strategy sessions with Eduventures' analysts
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"I am very pleased with our relationship with Eduventures and it's well worth belonging as a member institution. Jennifer Zaslow and Alicia Reed from the Development Learning Collaborative research team recently came to our campus and helped us review our approach to metrics. Their work put me in the enviable position of rolling out a new approach that is supported both by hard data as well as by the consensus of my team. What a great outcome!"
Craig Smith
Associate Vice President for Development
Rochester Institute of Technology
