Welcome to Higher Ed Advisor, the Baker Tilly podcast series where we speak with higher education industry leaders from across the firm about practical and proactive guidance to help colleges and universities protect and enhance their value.

Aligning programs, services, resources, campus locations and other fiscal drivers is crucial to managing strategic transformation across an institution’s enterprise and meeting student needs in a changed learning environment.

In this episode, our higher education specialists explain why now is the time to chart a path forward and realign strategy and footprint to ensure sustainable, long-term fiscal and mission resilience across institutional functions. Taking a systemic and intentional look at your institution is a key step towards implementing a fiscal resiliency framework and enacting change.

Listen to our podcast to gain insight about how to go about transforming your institution to achieve fiscal resilience during this challenging time.

Meet the hosts: 

Raina Rose Tagle, CPA, CISA, CIA, Partner, Baker Tilly

Christine Smith, Managing Director, Baker Tilly

This podcast is the second episode in our fiscal resiliency series for higher education institutions. View the first episode here.

Higher Education Fiscal Resiliency Diagnostic

Higher education leaders continue to navigate the numerous challenges colleges and universities face in the wake of COVID-19. Baker Tilly's Higher Education Fiscal Resiliency Diagnostic is a free, beneficial tool that can help your institution recover from recent events, plan for future institutional sustainability and ensure fiscal and mission resilience.

Resource center

Baker Tilly understands higher education institutions and how an unplanned event such as the COVID-19 outbreak can affect your organization and community. Visit our Higher Education Coronavirus Resource Center  for additional tools and advice.