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A nationally recognized hospital expands its cloud footprint

By Katherine Reid posted 05-16-2022
See how Deloitte helped a large academic hospital improve patient care, streamline operations, and improve employee experience by migrating to the cloud.Maintaining legacy technology can become a distraction for any organization—diverting time, money, and other resources away from the central mission. In the health care realm, that reality can be an especially stark one. Each dollar spent on unnecessary activities represents a dollar that could be used to support the primary mission: caring for patients. Legacy HR apps and data have been a significant element of the project, as they continue to be essential day to day. As part of the mainframe-to-cloud migration, ...

University of Southern California Network Engineering

By Katherine Reid posted 05-16-2022
The new network architecture utilizes industry-leading practices to greatly improve performance, maintenance, reliability, and security across the campus and data center. Click Here to Access the Article #DELOITTE

A student-facing portal for one of the largest and fastest growing universities in the US

By Katherine Reid posted 05-16-2022
A new student-facing portal has accelerated the Admissions process, enabling students to engage in more self-service. Click Here to Access the Article #DELOITTE

An Ivy League university: Lessons learned in higher education operational efficiencies

By Katherine Reid posted 05-16-2022
A top Ivy League University combines technology and change management to alleviate administrative burdens and turn attention back toward the University’s mission. Click Here to Access the Article #DELOITTE

An innovative approach to recruiting and admissions in higher education

By Katherine Reid posted 05-13-2022
Higher education institutions are experiencing growing concerns about declining enrollment accelerated by the economic effects of COVID-19. As a result, colleges and universities are embracing virtual events to engage prospective students. With the right tools and the help of Deloitte, colleges and universities can be better equipped to address their recruitment goals. Click Here to Access Article #DELOITTE

3 Things You Should Know About: Oracle Student Financial Planning (SFP)

By Katherine Reid posted 05-13-2022
SFP will aid in helping students make informed decisions on their borrowing and helping institutions reduce default rates while improving retention. Click Here to Access Article #DELOITTE

3 Things You Should Know About: Chart of Accounts Transformation

By Katherine Reid posted 05-13-2022
Finance transformation involves managing ongoing fund transfers and reconciling back to many sources of income: awarded grants, gifts, endowments, and student affairs. Click Here to Access the Article #DELOITTE

3 Things You Should Know About: The Features of Oracle Analytics

By Katherine Reid posted 05-13-2022
Oracle analytics provides the ability to derive insights across ERP, learning management systems, student engagement, and other information resources will be essential to academic and administrative programs. Click Here to Access Article #DELOITTE

The Hybrid Campus: Three major shifts for the post-COVID university

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
During COVID-19, many higher education institutions adopted a mix of face-to-face and online delivery of courses and services—creating an opportunity for a more permanent shift to a hybrid university. This publication developed by Deloitte’s Center for Higher Education Excellence and Strada Education Network explores shifts across three key areas: academic affairs, student success, and the campus workforce. Click Here to Access the Paper #Post-pandemic #DELOITTE

Return to Campus: Perspectives from Higher Education Leaders

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
We virtually gathered more than 300 higher education leaders to discuss how the Future of Work can inform the return to campus, and it is clear there is no one-size-fits-all approach for returning to campus. Click here to Access the Paper #DELOITTE #Post-pandemic

Ready to Learn, Ready to Work

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
What will it take for higher education to bridge the gap between millions of jobs and millions of unemployed to become a key driver of economic recovery in a post-pandemic world? Click Here to Access the Paper #Post-pandemic #DELOITTE

College Students' Mental Health and Well-Being

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
COVID-19 has taken a dramatic toll on college students' well-being, but there were concerns even before the pandemic. What can colleges and universities do in response? Click Here to Access the Paper #DELOITTE #Post-pandemic

Five Strategies for Student Success

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
Five strategies that leading colleges and universities are following to help reduce the financial administrative roadblocks ghat hinder strong student success outcomes. Click Here to Access the Paper #DELOITTE

Why Higher Education must Evolve to Help fill the Jobs Gap

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
How are industry and academia exploring skill acquisition and certificate programs to better prepare the workforce for a new economy? Click Here to Access Article #DELOITTE

Redesigning and coordinating HR and Finance Services at Tufts University

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
Higher education institutions—even universities with extensive resources—are exploring how to remain financially strong while continuing to evolve support of their teaching, learning, and research missions. Tufts University took a hard look at its administrative processes and discovered that redundancies and fragmentation in administrative areas were leading to inefficiencies and unnecessary spending. The Deloitte team worked closely with Tufts’ administrative leadership and managers throughout TEAM's five-phase project for Tufts Support Services (TSS) with the objective of implementing a services-oriented approach to HR and finance tasks. to learn about how ...

Implementing AI and Machine Learning to Identify key Enrollment Indicators at the Michigan State University

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
Michigan State University (MSU) experienced increased enrollment pressure in the face of a shifting higher education landscape across the United States and the State of Michigan. The solution was Deloitte collaborating with Michigan State University on a variety of strategic initiatives, notably the first implementation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning predictive models that make up Candidate360 TM . These models combined proprietary lifestyle data, which includes more than 1,700 data elements about over 230M U.S. households, with MSU data to optimize the analytics and insights that the recruitment team had on-hand. The insights – which provided ...

Replacing and Updating Core Administrative Systems across the University of Arkansas

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
The University of Arkansas System (UA System)— a public university system known for being a driving force in the state’s economic, educational, and cultural advancement—embarked on a project to replace and update its core administrative systems for finance, procurement, human capital management, payroll, and student administration. This multi-year project, titled Project One, included new functions phased in over several years. The UA System selected Workday for the solution and Deloitte as the implementation partner. The project is defined by easy-to-use systems that lower the administrative burden for all, deliver trusted information and reduce overall cost. ...

Analytics and BI for a Private R1 University

By Katherine Reid posted 05-12-2022
A private not-for-profit R1 University, composed of the undergraduate college and the graduate school, engaged the Entigence analytics team (acquired by Deloitte Consulting in August 2021) to provide higher education analytics expertise and implement two key projects. The institution now has a comprehensive BI tool to fit their reporting needs for the College Fact Book and has recommendations for leading practices in report design. Highlights of outcomes include: Automated the development of the Fact Book that saved over three months of recurring manual effort spent by the data analysts in consolidating the undergraduate data across multiple systems ...

A Story of Resilience: How the University of Virginia transformed budgeting and planning in the face of a global pandemic

By Katherine Reid posted 05-11-2022
The University of Virginia was ranked as the country’s fourth best public university by U.S. News & World Report. Entering its third century, the institution is a vital contributor to Virginia’s economy. Operating revenues in fiscal year 2020 were nearly $3 billion, and the university’s net position at the end of the year was over $9 billion. UVA’s leadership is committed to driving initiatives that grow and strengthen the institution for the future. But achieving this important goal can be difficult when a critical business function like finance relies on outdated legacy systems. Having already implemented Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) to support ...

Student Data Warehouse for a Leading Private Research University

By Katherine Reid posted 05-11-2022
When one of the top private research universities set out to replace their 30+ year old legacy Student system with Workday Student, there was an early recognition that the legacy data warehouse needed to be replaced alongside the Workday Student Information System (SIS) to make sure departments and central offices had a scalable reporting platform that provided accurate and timely information. This institution’s Student data warehouse was the first of its kind for an R1 higher education institution. The University went live with Workday Student and the implementation of a Student data warehouse leveraging Workday data. Highlights of the impact include: ...