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.
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.
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.
MGT assists colleges and universities manage enrollment through the offering of several services.
MGT's familiarity with higher education programs, student needs, current trends, and technological advances provides a sound basis for determining facility needs before developing the detailed site and building components. MGT's professionals establish highly effective and efficient systems for assessing capital needs based on objective data.
As state governments seek to allocate funding to their public institutions, key decisions must be made with respect to the adequacy and equity of funding. Our higher education practice area includes experts in higher education finance and funding to assist clients in these key areas.
Our senior consultants lend their expertise in the areas of financial and capital planning, budgeting, and management systems in higher education. Clients benefit from a wealth of experience and innovative thinking.
Recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and staff are constant challenges. Your human resource management strategies should maximize your ability to achieve and maintain a competitive edge in a constantly changing environment. This means providing a working environment that fosters highly productive outcomes and satisfaction with working conditions.
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.
MGT starts with guidlines from our Institutional Performance Review Manual© in conducting institutional and systemwide efficiency studies and tailors them to reflect relevant issues for your departments, institution, or system. We have conducted comprehensive performance reviews for individual departments, campuses, and entire state systems, as well as reengineering efforts for specific functional areas within institutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
MGT provides services to campus leaders in determining the feasibility of potential new program offerings. Additionally, MGT assists state higher education boards in reviewing proposals for new degree programs that have been submitted by colleges and universities.