What can higher education learn from the health care industry? The two sectors have vastly different goals: one educates people, the other keeps them alive. But both colleges and hospitals face some of the same pressures. As the baby boom generation ages and enters retirement, care providers are bracing for the strain that surge of demand will place on the health care system. Similarly, colleges and universities are expecting to enroll more students from lower income brackets, which will create new demands for their advising services. “It becomes an efficiency issue,” said Ed Venit, a senior director at the Education Advisory Board, based in Washington, D.C. “How thin are we going to spread ourselves? If we’re unable to provide adequate care for these students, our outcomes will fall.”

April 19, 2016 ・ From Inside Higher Ed