Operating Measure for Independent Institutions

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Throughout higher education's history there has never been agreement about a relevant operating measure for colleges and universities. Development of a single, fundamental operating measure for independent higher education institutions addresses stakeholders concerns of measurement consistency.  NACUBO continues to work with a wide range of participants from many sectors of higher education in the ongoing discussion of a uniform measure.

Defining an Operating Measure, the culmination of a long-term project of NACUBO's Accounting Principles Council, offers advisory guidance.

Business Officer Magazine Articles

• When Operating Measures Don't Add Up (January 2004)
• Inching Toward An Operating Measure (August 2002) 
• To Measure Or Not To Measure - That's Still In Question (August 2002)
  
  

Related Links

• Proceedings from the September 2000 NACUBO and the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative Institutional Operating Measures Forum.