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Cost Containment Strategies

Financial tech to keep your budget in check

Ensure your most critical institutional plans align with the financial parameters necessary to remain sustainable.

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Align your budget with your mission

Cost containment strategies are designed to support your most vital financial processes, aid in managing your labor spend, demonstrate your finances, reflect your strategic plan, and prepare for future institutional peaks and valleys. Ensure your investments, annual budget, workforce allocation, and accreditation preparation are in order through valuable data readily available to board members, accreditors, and other key stakeholders.

Better informed, better aligned, better results

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Data-based demonstrations

Provide your key stakeholders—board members, accreditors, and more—with tangible evidence across the institutional areas of highest focus. Informed annual budgets, tactical workforce allocation, and aligned strategic planning draw direct connections between choices and their financial impacts on enrollment, retention, and other vital outcome metrics.

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Empowered employment

Calibrate labor spend to line up with your institution’s goals and initiatives. Your staffing plans need to reflect strategic goals, and you’ll need data to help Human Resources and other departmental heads to reimagine roles, find areas for automation, and identify new operational opportunities as hiring markets continue to evolve, like increased competitiveness for IT roles.

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Consolidate causes

Bring your financial practices into alignment with your mission and strategic planning initiatives. Providing evidence your institution can operate in-step with its loftiest ideals not only unites mission with action, it also bolsters the efforts necessary for reaccreditation. Demonstrate quality financial stewardship, as well as proof of institutional sustainability during a time of industry-wide uncertainty.

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Adapt and advance

Proactively prepare for the inevitable ups and downs of higher education. Financial circumstances ebb and flow and, by informing cost containment strategies through deep data, your institution can anticipate impacts, alter course accordingly, and maneuver with a higher degree of certainty. Move from financial reports that only report on what’s already happened to active analytics which can help advise knowledgeable next steps.

Ask questions that align cost containment strategies with strategic planning

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Combine cost containment strategies and institutional goals

Find out how HelioCampus Financial Intelligence solutions can help you uncover insights related to contribution margins, instructor utilization, and course delivery and demand. Become your own consultant with ongoing access to reliable data that informs staffing and scheduling efficiencies or competitive course offerings in-line with current and future demand.

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Optimize your institutional budget

Benchmark labor costs

Benchmarking Consortium

Get a deep dive into labor allocation and costs when you analyze against job description criteria, not just department or function. We enable you to strategize ongoing workforce investments and initiatives to have more data-informed financial planning discussions with HR and department leaders.

  • Manage labor spend to contain costs or make strategic investments

  • Inform key financial processes, like annual budgeting, resource or strategic planning, with more precise data

  • Evaluate alignment with your strategic plan to demonstrate good financial stewardship and sustainability

Explore Benchmarking Consortium

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Uncover academic programming opportunities

Academic Performance Management

Understand and manage the cost of instruction for your institution so you can better address budget deficits, identify efficiencies, and optimize faculty assignments and non-teaching activities.

  • Gain visibility into instructional costs and margins to inform academic planning
  • Identify trends in course demand or enrollment within academic departments
  • Maximize instructor capability across teaching and non-teaching activities

Explore Academic Performance Management

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Benchmark labor costs

Benchmarking Consortium

Get a deep dive into labor allocation and costs when you analyze against job description criteria, not just department or function. We enable you to strategize ongoing workforce investments and initiatives to have more data-informed financial planning discussions with HR and department leaders.

  • Manage labor spend to contain costs or make strategic investments

  • Inform key financial processes, like annual budgeting, resource or strategic planning, with more precise data

  • Evaluate alignment with your strategic plan to demonstrate good financial stewardship and sustainability

Explore Benchmarking Consortium

Dashboard view of HelioCampus Benchmarking Consortium data

Uncover academic programming opportunities

Academic Performance Management

Understand and manage the cost of instruction for your institution so you can better address budget deficits, identify efficiencies, and optimize faculty assignments and non-teaching activities.

  • Gain visibility into instructional costs and margins to inform academic planning
  • Identify trends in course demand or enrollment within academic departments
  • Maximize instructor capability across teaching and non-teaching activities

Explore Academic Performance Management

HLC_30_APM_DA_Overview_Page

Get ideas and strategies for containing costs at your institution

Three University Case Studies: Benchmarking Against Peer Institutions

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Using Benchmarked Labor Spend Data in Higher Education

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Transforming Budget, Staffing, and Strategy with Benchmarking

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HelioCampus gives you a clear line of sight into financial risks and opportunities within your institution related to labor costs, long-term financial sustainability, and alignment with your strategic plan. Let us help you uncover unseen trends and insights that can inform your annual planning, budget cycles, and workforce planning.

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