Strategic Insights Brief
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HESA's guide for institutional decision-makers.
Introducing the Higher Education 2023-24 Strategic Insights Brief, HESA’s guide specially designed to ensure decision-makers in higher education are kept abreast of the most pressing issues facing Canadian institutions! Written for boards, senate members, and executive leadership, and tailored and branded to each participating institution, these accessible guides provide insights into important areas of growth and change in the Higher Education landscape.
Strategic Insights Briefs can also be customized using data from your institution placed in specific comparative context, so your readers can see how your institution is addressing these issues.
Workshops with Alex Usher, HESA’s President and internationally recognized expert on higher education, are also available as an accompaniment to the Strategic Insights Briefs. Alex can walk your team through the challenges and opportunities for your institution and guide you through critical discussions central to the life and health of higher education institutions.
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12 Key Topics
Canadian institutions have depended on very high numbers of international students for decades, but international enrolment is flatlining. This section discusses trends in international student enrolment in the country and in your region, and the impact these trends are having on institutions.
A discussion of trends in educational attainment across different jurisdictions in the country and how this will impact program design and enrolment.
Government funding has huge impacts on what institutions can do. This section discusses how levels of government funding have changed in the last decade.
As new credentials enter the market and student expectations around delivery modes shift, this section discusses the implications of these trends.
Many institutions have begun to work in earnest toward Indigenization and Decolonization. This section explores emerging strategies and their implications for Indigenous community members and institutions as a whole.
Through strategies, action plans, policies and procedures, institutions have increasingly been engaged in improving EDIAB. This section discusses what has been happening on campuses in matters of EDIAB and considers the risks of inaction – or lack of follow-through – in this space.
Institutions are vital to the communities they serve. We discuss the importance of external engagement with communities, focusing in particular on the Board’s role in this.
Insights into demographic trends can help institution plan for enrolment and overall demand. This section discusses demographic projections nationally and in your institution’s home province.
Institutions are first and foremost made up of people. This section is a discussion of recent labour relations issues and positions in the PSE sector.
Research is a big part of what institutions do but is often misunderstood. This section discusses the ways research types and the dividends successful research production provides institutions.
It is generally known that students have increasing expectations about their experience on campus, but the student experience is both multidimensional and highly contextual. This section discusses the various dimensions that aggregate to form the student experience, and presents some emerging preferences in student experience and what institutions are doing to improve it.
Institutions are playing an active role in the fight against climate change through adaptations on campus. This section answers: What have universities been doing to address climate change on their campuses and what opportunities exist to contribute further?
* Indicates topics that can be customized with specific institutional data at an additional cost
