Announcements
November 28
HESA’s Pam Marcucci on Higher Ed Financing
HESA’s Pam Marcucci has contributed to a KFW-Finance in Motion study entitled Higher Education Finance: Overview of Existing Financial Models and Schemes. The report offers an overview of higher education funding models; it is designed to provide a framework for country-level analysis and, subsequently, a model for an education finance program for Southeast Europe.
November 23
New Publication: Work-Integrated Learning and Career-Ready Students: Examining the Evidence
HESA is proud to release its latest report, Work-Integrated Learning and Career-Ready Students: Examining the Evidence.
September 08
New Report: The State of E-Learning in Canadian Universities, 2011
HESA is proud to release its latest report, The State of E-Learning in Canadian Universities, 2011: If Students Are Digital Natives, Why Don’t They Like E-Learning?
September 01
Introducing the Global Higher Education Strategy Monitor
HESA is proud to introduce the inaugural edition of The Global Higher Education Strategy Monitor. The Monitor’s mission is to tell the story of how higher education leaders – primarily at the institutional level, but also at the national level – are using strategy to improve their institutions and systems. We complement existing day-to-day news sources by taking a longer view, focusing on how institutions and governments choose to leverage particular strengths or make targeted investments to drive long-term innovations and quality improvement in higher education.
August 26
Saskatchewan Degree-Granting Consultations Final Report Released
The Government of Saskatchewan has released the final report of its consultations on the expansion of degree-granting status in the province. HESA President Alex Usher led the consultations and authored the final report.
The report includes three common themes:
- that there is widespread misunderstanding of what degree-granting expansion may entail;
- there is substantial concern about duplication of services, especially in more expensive programs; and
- that there is widespread support for, and trust in the province’s two universities.
- A quality assurance board should be established for reviewing new degree programs at institutions other than the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan.
- Institutions other than the University of Regina and the University of Saskatchewan should be able to offer degree programs if approved by the quality assurance board.
- The University of Saskatchewan and the University of Regina should not need approval for new degree programs, but would benefit from a periodic quality audit system.
- A competitive process should be developed to determine which public institutions should offer new degree programs in areas of emerging professional practice.
August 23
Welcome to HESA’s New Website
Higher Education Strategy Associates is pleased to welcome you to its new website. Over the course of the next few months, we’ll be adding some exciting features, including the entire International Comparative Higher Education Finance and Accessibility Project library. In the meantime, feel free to visit our new blog, One Thought to Start Your Day, which you can receive in your inbox each morning by subscribing to our newsletter here.
August 23
Stepford Universities?
Join Higher Education Strategy Associates on September 28th and 29th for Stepford Universities? Differentiation of Mission in the New Higher Education Landscape, a conference examining the roles and opportunities for universities and colleges as higher education systems become more complex.

