Business leaders in the United States and across the world spend countless hours in the boardrooms of major research universities. For many institutions and trustees, those meetings have become more challenging due to some well-documented threats. Rapidly rising tuition, shifting demographics, the growing popularity of online learning, pressure on research funding, volatile endowment earnings, and parental and graduate dissatisfaction with employment opportunities: all are trends that pose significant risks for university departments, colleges, and central administrations.
