Deepening Our Business Acumen
by John Walda
NACUBO President and CEO John Walda welcomes members to this inaugural issue of HR Horizons, the association’s new electronic quarterly focusing on high-level human resource issues critical to institutional planning and financial success.
The Strategic Importance of Human Resources
by Karla Hignite
Challenges of an aging workforce are only one aspect of a changing demographic landscape that requires strategic focus on human resource planning. Here are additional factors to consider that are relevant to higher education institutions of all types and sizes.
Where is HR?
by Karla Hignite
Workforce-related costs represent the largest portion of an institution's budget. While that fact alone makes clear the need to include an HR perspective in decision making, recognizing the human resource function as core to institutional health depends in part on to whom HR reports.
Does Higher Education Need Retirement Plan Overhaul?
by Dallas Salisbury
Issues abound for higher education leaders who must articulate financial security objectives for workers and retirees and then seek effective financing methods. Employee Benefit Research Institute CEO Dallas Salisbury weighs in on this topic.
Feed the Source
by Raymond Arroyo
Hispanics in the United States lag in degree completion, resulting in shortages of faculty recruits. Aetna Chief Diversity Officer Raymond Arroyo discusses this "pipeline" problem with Antonio Flores, president and CEO of Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.
Change Happens
Name three big demographic shifts that promise to impact higher education recruitment success for the next three decades. (Hint: age, place, and race.)
