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In a conversation based around their NACUBO 2023 Annual Meeting session, Lou Mayer, chief finance officer, vice president of finance and treasurer and Tej Patel, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Stevens Institute of Technology talk with Neil Gavigan, policy and advocacy manager at NACUBO about cyberattacks and higher education.
 
Throughout the conversation, Lou and Tej illustrate why higher education is a prime target for cybercrime and share lessons learned from a 2019 ransomware attack on Stevens.
 
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Connect with Lou on LinkedIn Connect with Tej on LinkedIn Connect with Neil on LinkedIn

On this all-NACUBO episode of the podcast, Liz Clark, vice president, policy and research speaks with Kelli Rainey, senior director, grant programs about Kelli’s ongoing work to help institutions strategically finance equitable student outcomes. Supported by a series of multi-year grants, this effort has partnered NACUBO with a diverse group of 26 institutions across the country to build understanding around how to improve student outcomes and provide higher education leaders with the tools and information they need to best serve their students.
 
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Connect with Kelli on LinkedIn Connect with Liz on LinkedIn NACUBO Grant and Foundation Partners

Chris Harder, senior fiscal operations manager for student affairs at Metropolitan State University of Denver joins NACUBO’s Bryan Dickson, director, student financial services and educational programs, for a conversation about MSU Denver’s decision to pay its lowest earners more than legally required. Referring to the move as an “investment in the institution and its students,” Chris shares background on the decision as well as challenges, anticipated and otherwise, implementing the plan.
 
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Connect with Chris on LinkedIn Connect with Bryan on LinkedIn MIT Living Wage Calculator

NACUBO’s Liz Clark, vice president, policy and research speaks with Ann Ellis, CEO and co-founder of Mauve Group. Together, they discuss Ann’s early work as an educator and how Mauve Group has grown to offer a variety of global operations services in more than 100 countries “from Japan to Chile.” After realizing there were opportunities to offer new solutions to the higher education sector in 2012, Mauve Group now offers support to institutions that employ people outside the United States in research, instruction, data analysis, and much more.
 
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Connect with Anne on LinkedIn Connect with Liz on LinkedIn Mauve Group

Building on their institution’s legacy of serving disadvantaged students, Penny Evans-Plants, chief information officer and Zach Sherwin, director of enterprise analytics at Berry College join NACUBO’s Bryan Dickson, director of student financial services and educational programs to discuss their ongoing efforts to leverage existing data to better serve students. By focusing on “identifying students with excessive debt and intervening as soon as possible,” Penny and Zach are helping to produce positive outcomes for their most at-risk students.
 
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Connect with Penny on LinkedIn Connect with Zach on LinkedIn Connect with Bryan on LinkedIn

With input from business officers at public and private colleges and universities across the country, NACUBO recently identified the most-pressing higher education business issues in 2023. NACUBO’s 2023 Rising Star Award recipient, Katie Walker, assistant vice president for finance at the University of Virginia, joins Liz Clark, vice president for policy and research at NACUBO, to discuss the challenges—and how colleges are strategizing to respond.
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NACUBO’s Top 5 Higher Education Business Issues of 2023 Connect with Katie on LinkedIn Connect with Liz on LinkedIn Check out NACUBO’s other podcasts! Career Conversations (brand new!) CBO Speaks