Services

Building Condition Assessment - Service

Aging buildings, changes in enrollment patterns and educational programs, and the need to technologically update existing facilities, combined with severe restrictions on available funds, have created major educational facility issues throughout the nation.

Diversity Studies - Service

MGT provides a full range of services in the equal opportunity arena. With one of the nation's strongest disparity practices, we are able to assist our clients from the beginning of a study through the last steps of implementation. We have successfully completed over 105 diversity studies for public sector clients, including higher education institutions, across the country.

 

Education Data - Service

In recent years, all levels of education in the United States have become increasingly accountable for improving the educational status of students. One consequence of this is that state education organizations – public schools, technical centers and colleges, adult education centers, community colleges, and universities – have responded by developing new data systems that are longitudinal, combine elements across business units, and link to related services such as foster care, public assistance, correctional education, and employment. These systems have supported increased reporting requirements, public accountability, evaluation, and research that guides and evaluates policies and programs.

Educational Technology - Service

Accelerated technological change has transformed today's society. MGT understands the growing awareness that education is a critical factor in determining both an individual’s and a region’s ability to be successful in the new global economy. As a result, there is an increased demand from both state and local leaders that higher education be improved and expanded through technology.

 

Enrollment Management - Service

MGT assists colleges and universities manage enrollment through the offering of several services.

Facility Master Planning - Service

MGT's knowledge of higher education, current trends, space guidelines, and advances in technology and the use of technology provides a sound basis for determining your space needs. Identifying how space is currently being used and comparing utilization to a set of space guidelines determines the starting point for facility master planning. Then, projecting the future space needs based on programmatic directions allows for an implementable facility master plan to be developed. The key to success is that programs drive facilities.

Funding Studies and Models - Service

Making key decisions with respect to the adequacy and equity of funding is especially critical in today’s challenging economic environment. Our senior consultants lend their expertise in the areas of financial and capital planning, budgeting, and management systems in higher education. You will benefit from a wealth of experience and innovative thinking.

Human Resources Management and Salary Studies - Service

Providing a working environment that fosters highly productive outcomes and satisfaction with working conditions, while facilitating the recruitment and retention of outstanding faculty and staff, is MGT’s focus. Having completed hundreds of HR related projects since we opened our doors, you can rely on expert knowledge.

Information Technology - Service

Technology continues to evolve at phenomenal speed and presents opportunities as well as challenges. Without adopting a proactive and comprehensive position, higher education institutions quickly find their technology resources under performing and not consistent with their needs.

Management and Organizational Reviews - Service

MGT utilizes its Institutional Performance Review Manual© in conducting institutional and systemwide efficiency studies, tailoring each study to reflect relevant issues for your departments, institution, or system. You will reap the benefits from the many comprehensive performance reviews conducted for individual departments, campuses, and entire state systems, as well as reengineering efforts for specific functional areas within institutions.

Market Research and Assessment - Service

MGT provides a full range of market research and assessment services to support institutional planning and evaluation activities. MGT assists with sampling, instrument design, data collection, and analysis and interpretation of results. Data-gathering strategies include mail surveys, Web-based surveys, random-digit-dialing telephone surveys, personal interviews, focus groups, and intercept interviews.

Medical Education Planning - Service

The situation

A number of factors contribute to the significant shortage of physicians in the United States, with some states and regions already being severely impacted. As a result, alternative strategies for increasing the supply of doctors is being considered. Government agencies and leading professional organizations are issuing recommendations for significant expansion of the nation’s heath professional educational delivery system. For instance, the Association of American Medical Colleges recommends that medical school enrollment expand by 30 percent by 2015.

Outsourcing and Staff Augmentation - Service

For 30 years, MGT has assisted public sector clients find solutions to the challenges that higher education institutions face in IT strategic planning and staffing. MGT can help you operate more efficiently and effectively.

Peer Selection and Analysis - Service

MGT assists individual colleges and universities, as well as state higher education boards in selection of peer institutions. The MGT approach to peer selection takes into account characteristics related to size, program offerings, research performance, institutional control and setting, geographic location, and other measures that are identified as important to the issues under investigation.

Program Evaluation - Service

The heart of every higher education institution is its academic programs, and MGT understands that these programs must be delivered effectively and efficiently. Effective program evaluations are characterized by the credibility and objectivity of the evaluators and their ability to communicate relevant and concise findings. MGT is highly experienced in conducting objective and practical program reviews and evaluations at the institutional and system levels.