Higher Ed Advisor: realigning strategy and footprint to achieve fiscal resilience
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.
Higher Ed Advisor hosts
Raina Rose Tagle
Raina Rose Tagle leads Baker Tilly’s firmwide risk, internal audit and cybersecurity practice, consisting of more than 300 professionals who specialize in helping clients address governance, risk, compliance (GRC) and cybersecurity challenges via industry-specialized capabilities. The practice focuses across areas such as enterprise risk management (ERM) and compliance programs, internal audit, cybersecurity and information technology (IT), financial and operational risk management, grants and research contracts compliance, and construction risk management. She joined the firm in 2006 and for a decade was Baker Tilly’s industry leader for higher education and research institutions, which has grown to assist more than institutions nationally. Raina serves on Baker Tilly’s board of partners and leads the Baker Tilly International network’s Global GRC Committee. She previously served on the national committee for the firm’s Growth and Retention of Women initiative.
Christine M. Smith
Christine is a director in our higher education practice and has been with Baker Tilly since 1998. She has advised clients for more than 20 years on innovative solutions to transform organizational effectiveness and ensure the appropriate level of compliance, transparency and efficiency. Christine has extensive experience managing strategic budgeting and financial planning, organizational and operational analysis, strategic planning, resource optimization, performance and program audits, and human resource management initiatives. Her work in risk management spans overall internal audit organizational effectiveness assessments, internal controls reviews and sponsored research operations assessments. She has served traditional four-year and research universities, private colleges, community and technical colleges, and university extensions.
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