Education Advisory Services
Expectations for higher education are rapidly evolving. The needs of industry are shifting, and students are seeking more diverse, flexible, and career-oriented learning experiences. The value of a traditional four-year degree is under scrutiny, while the demand for non-traditional education and lifelong learning opportunities is growing. Demographic shifts are transforming the student landscape, and the impending arrival of a fully digital-native generation of students brings new expectations and challenges.
In this era of rapid change, institutions must adapt to remain relevant and effectively serve their constituents and communities—and society more broadly. They must explore innovative models, such as distributed campuses, real estate development, and non-traditional research and industry partnerships to strengthen their financial viability. They must explore ways to harness GenAI and other technologies responsibly to enrich the student experience through personalized learning pathways, enhance faculty research and course development, and streamline administrative functions.
Higher Education Advisory Services
We offer a robust suite of services designed to help colleges and universities develop innovative strategies, harness the power of advanced technologies, and create resilient organizational structures that can withstand disruption and thrive in the face of change.
KPMG is a multidisciplinary firm that prides itself on working together. Our solid understanding of higher education, combined with the breadth and depth, our cross-sector and cross-disciplinary capabilities, enables us to provide robust solutions to address your institution's most pressing needs and drive sustainable growth.
Our 15,000+ technology professionals include software architects, engineers, and developers with a broad range of competencies and capabilities, including AI, cybersecurity, intelligent automation, technology architecture and infrastructure design, cloud implementation and migration, and more. They can help you harness the power of technology to transform the student experience, streamline operations, and drive innovation.
Our data scientists and AI professionals can aid you in harnessing the power of AI and release insights trapped in your data. They can enhance the understanding of your data – where it comes from, what controls are required, how to maximize value from it, and how to efficiently share that value across your organization, securely, ethically, and responsibly. They can help you gain a more thorough understanding of student needs, preferences, and behaviors, personalize the learning experience, and improve student outcomes.
Our risk professionals help address financial, reputational, regulatory, and operational risks with a range of risk management services, including regulatory and compliance risk, technology risk, third-party risk, risk governance, and operational resilience. They can help you leverage powerful risk analytics, modeling, and real-time risk reporting solutions to make risk management a streamlined part of everyday operations.
Our change management professionals can help you anticipate and adapt to the wide-ranging impacts any change can have on your organization and people, including business processes and operating models, budgets and financial controls, governance, risk and compliance, change management, and employee growth and retention.”
Strategy & Operational Alignment
Assess performance issues, conduct in-depth operational, cost-optimization, and risk assessments, and develop actionable plans to address them.
Student Success & Experience
Deliver personalized and engaging student experiences, streamline processes, and gain powerful insights with KPMG Powered Student rapid assessments, technology, and accelerators.
Strategic Workforce Planning
Redefine productivity, innovation, and employee engagement through human-AI collaboration. Identify high-impact areas for AI integration and augment your workforce through bespoke training and adoption strategies.
ERP & Cloud Platform Implementations
Harness the power of leading cloud platforms to transform your institution, deliver a unified digital experience, enable data-driven insights, and streamline operations
Technology Modernization
Enable a seamless transition towards a modern campus by integrating strategic governance, modern technology, advanced practices, and robust maintenance.
AI Governance & Adoption
Harness the power of AI responsibility to drive strategic decision-making, personalize learning experiences, support research, and automate tasks.
Infrastructure, Capital Projects, and Sustainability
Transform how you manage capital assets, optimize space, achieve sustainability goals, and leverage federal grants and innovation hubs.
Strategic Real Estate Development & Collaboration Hubs
Transform the value of your real estate portfolio while fostering stronger connections with your alumni and community.
Executive Order Strategic Response Services
Helping you remain compliant while proactively managing impacts on your clients, operations, and industry.
Generative AI in Higher Education
Like many organizations, public institutions of higher learning recognize the power of GenAI to transform and improve their work. They are also uniquely threatened by the technology, with its potential to disrupt their educational mission. To achieve the desired gains and minimize risk, it is critical to establish organization-wide policies and frameworks for GenAI usage.
In this article, we outline four steps these institutions can take to lay the groundwork for safe and effective usage of GenAI by administrators, faculty and students.
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