Idea Lab: Mergers and Collaboration

With colleges facing tougher financial headwinds, more are looking to potentially merge or collaborate with their peers. This collection focuses on what colleges need to know to take such steps – and how to avoid the possible mistakes. It includes: 

• How colleges can save money by sharing administrative responsibilities
• The problems mergers often fail to fix
• The opportunities technology offers for academic collaboration
• Lessons from public institutions that have consolidated campuses
• What a college president learned by leading a merger
• How cooperation can strengthen research activities

Get this Idea Lab booklet to decide whether a merger or partnership is right for your college.

Date: July 26, 2018
Pages: 44
Digital file size: 1.74 MB