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The Academic Business consulting Group, LLC was founded in 2003. For
the past three years the Group has been consulting with higher education in a
number of projects. The list includes:
 | Developed a business plan, including a financial model, for a proposed
Dental Hygiene program at a regional university campus. |
| Created an economic assessment of all campus nursing programs for a community
college system's 13 nursing programs across the state. The assessment included:
 | Creation of an on-line survey of Nursing Deans and campus
educational officers for developing a S.W.O.T. (Strengths, Weaknesses,
Opportunities, and Threats) report submitted to the top level
administrators.. |
| Creation of a programmatic financial model for program improvement
and necessary funding for the next four years at all campuses.. |
| Creation of a small peer-group of community college nursing programs
across the country to develop benchmarks for program funding. |
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| The Senior Partner has participated in four Colorado Performance
Excellence (CPEx)/Baldrige organizational examinations. These have
included businesses, educational, and health care organizations. They
have been at three levels of review, namely; High Plains, Foothills, and
Peak. For more information about CPEx/Baldrige use the "About Us" tab
above and then the "Affiliations" sub-tab. |
| Developed financial models for funding of programs at a university
campus:.
| Model development was under a contract with the Vice Chancellor for
Administration and Finance in cooperation with the Division of Resource
Management and the Office of Institutional Research. |
| Models were created for the College of Business, College of
Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the College of Letters, Arts and
Science. |
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The Group has limited the number of contracts to ensure that each client
received a maximum amount of value for their consulting dollar.
References for these projects can be provided upon request.
Additionally, the Senior Partner was involved in the following projects prior to the
creation of the Group:
| Developed a business plan, including financial model, for a Professional
Golf Association approved Golf Management program at a regional university. |
| Developed a financial model for campus housing that was included in a
revenue bond offering at a university. |
| Developed financial plans for the lease-purchase of a major
classroom/office building at a university. |
| Assisted in the development of management information systems across a
multi-campus research university
| The systems included, but was not limited to: academic program
performance, staffing patterns, enrollments and credit hour production,
and institutional characteristics. |
| Project included creating methodologies to collect, classify, and
interpret data to provide information to top level administrators. |
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| Created a tuition revenue projection model at a regional university. |
| Developed reporting processes to provide longitudinal student
information from a regional university to the statewide higher education
coordinating office. |
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