Higher Education
Mather Leigh offers a range of strategic services and professional counsel to universities and colleges. We help institutions raise more money, better connect with alumni, develop sound institutional strategic plans and build international partnerships.
Advancement
- Campaign feasibility studies
- Advancement program benchmarking
- Evaluation of existing programs
- Advancement analytics
- Campaign planning and implementation
- Major gift programs
- Corporate and foundation fundraising
- Annual giving programs
- Fundraising IT system solutions and management
- Donor research
- Strategic stewardship
- Alumni relations
- Board and volunteer management
- Staff training and mentorship
- Staff professional development and training seminars
- Executive recruitment
- Charitable tax entity establishment and process management
Institutional Strategic Planning
Mather Leigh translates your institution's vision and mission into realistic, goal-driven plans. We support institutional strategic planning by linking your institutional mission to academic planning and providing advice on key performance indicators and benchmarks. Our services include:
- Making optimal use of external rankings
- Undertaking situational analysis (environmental scan, assessment of peer competitors)
- Strategic planning (institutional or faculty level)
- Benchmarking (program, department, faculty/school, institutional)
- Measuring achievements through key performance indicators)
- Communicating strategic goals
- Surveying stakeholders and opinion leaders
Internationalization, International Alliance and University Partnership Building
The best internationalized institutions are those with meaningful and mutually beneficial international partnerships. This calls for an integrated approach to an international student body, an international curriculum and a presence on the global stage. Our work in internationalization and international partnership building will allow you to formalize your current efforts not only through comprehensive planning, but also through the identification of targeted opportunities that advance your goals. Our services include:
- Development of an internationalization strategy
- Assessment of current alliances/partnerships
- Identification of potential partnerships and opportunities
- Generation of increased research and development income from sources who support international initiatives
- Management of contacts/relationships in international partnerships