Six Principles that Make or Break Institutional Strategy

Available Anytime On-Demand

The success of an institution's strategy hinges on the day-to-day decisions of departments. Despite this, most institutions review their departments only every five to seven years during program reviews in a non-holistic way. This furthers the all-too-common disparity between departmental and institutional priorities.

  • Watch our on-demand webinar to learn how institutional leaders can better partner with department chairs to align goals and achieve institutional success through departmental reviews that:

    • Help institutions drive continuous improvement towards strategic priorities
    • Better consider the role academic unit leaders play in institutional mission and success
    • Effectively identify challenges and opportunities to address them


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  • Meet Our Leadership Expert



    Rodger Patience, Director and Faculty Member

    Rodger Patience is a Director and Faculty Member on EAB’s Academic Performance Solutions team. He works with both member-facing colleagues and the DC-based team of data scientists and software developers to help improve academic decision making and benchmarking. As a faculty member at EAB since 2014, Rodger has coached leaders in higher education on topics such as leading amidst uncertainty, change management, accountability, the foundations of finance, and the art of data-driven conversation.

    Prior to joining the firm in 2014, Rodger spent 15 years in database management for fundraising and business process improvement, first at the Field Museum of Natural History and then at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), an academic medical center in downtown Chicago. Rodger holds a BA in English from Eastern Illinois University and is currently pursuing coursework at Bexley Seabury Seminary and Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

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