Kennedy & Company focuses exclusively on the unique challenges and opportunities higher education institutions face. From enrollment and retention to choices in academic programming, financial sustainability, and beyond, our innovative approach enables us to provide integrated, insightful, and actionable solutions co-created through deep partnerships with our clients.
Insightful Analysis
We know that schools don’t need another report that gathers dust, but instead a practical blueprint for surviving and thriving. We collect market, competitive, and internal data, blending it with our expertise and the collective intelligence of the faculty, staff, administration, and board members committed to the institution. We push our clients to consider not only what to do, but also how they can best execute on a new set of strategies.
LEARN MOREIntegrated Approaches
Colleges and universities often operate in silos of departments, schools, and centers. We see the institution as an ecosystem – enrollment links to retention, retention to budgeting, budgeting to enrollment and fundraising. Our services span constituents across campus, allowing us to see these interdependencies and synergies. We approach each project holistically, working seamlessly across multiple facets of institutional operations, helping our clients to see, understand, and optimize these connections.
EXPLORECo-created Solutions
You bring deep knowledge of your institution. We bring proven methodologies, insight gained from our experience working with and at institutions grappling with similar challenges, and a keen sense of curiosity. We want to learn about how things work in your institution and what your unique challenges are, so that together, we can co-create solutions for sustainable success in your unique context.
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The consultants of Kennedy & Company have helped us to get great results through a number of engagements ranging from improving various administrative services to enrollment management. They approach the relationship as partners with us, and always ensure that a workable solution is provided for issues and opportunities identified. I heartily recommend them.
RICK NORK
CFO, Wayne State University
Kennedy recognized that no one knows us as well as we do. They valued our experience and knowledge, and worked with us as an integrated team. Kennedy’s collaborative approach ensured that the end-product was well-suited to our culture, our values and priorities, and our competitive environment.
KATHLEEN BOOZANG
Dean, Seton Hall University School of Law
We engaged Kennedy & Company to audit our set of touchpoints with prospective students, analyzing how customer data flows through different systems and detailing interactions at each step. In addition to a detailed analysis of our data ecosystem, the team developed a rigorous implementation plan to help different departments optimize their activities. Kennedy & Company was very thoughtful and comprehensive in their work, so that we gained visibility and are making meaningful progress on multiple interconnected issues.
BILL BOULDING
Dean, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business
The team at Kennedy & Company brings significant knowledge of higher education to the table and uses that to help us develop tailored solutions so that we can achieve our strategic objectives. In particular, Kennedy's work on a cost model that encompassed our eight campus system provided the groundwork to moving forward with a budget model revision. As a long-term partner to USC, Kennedy & Company continues to provide strategic planning and operational assistance to units all across the University.
Leslie Brunelli
Chief Financial Officer
Kennedy & Company approached our enrollment stabilization project as an invested partner. Ben and his staff took time to understand the needs of our students, and the goals of Mott Community College in achieving our mission. This insight into the College’s culture, its strengths and weaknesses, enabled them to develop a strategic enrollment plan that addresses our need to increase enrollment and ensure our students’ academic success.
Beverly Walker-Griffea
Mott Community College