There are major changes on the national higher education landscape affecting U.S. private colleges and universities related to enrollment, demographics and cultural shifts. Private higher education institutions are looking at flat or decreasing net revenues over the coming years. Enterprise administrative systems are one of the largest expenses for private institutions, many times with legacy systems that are no longer providing modern functionality. In working together as a group with a common solution provider, we find cost savings in our numbers. This is not only with our chosen common software provider, Oracle and with our implementation provider, Drivestream and many other 3rd party software solution providers.
With the changes ahead, seriously impacting our private institutions, hitting hardest in 2026 and years after, our private institutions are trying to find ways to collaborate with other institutions to save money and time as well as ease staff constraints in ERP & information technology operations.
After Drivestream’s comprehensive and affordable 5-year or 10-year of initial implementation and support plan, the Collective institutions will begin to pool our support hours together. As the Collective schools pool our support hours together in larger blocks with Drivestream post-implementation, we will find great economies of scale for many years to come.
The Collective Assist Collaboration Site
THE COLLECTIVE ASSIST site is the primary space for peer discussions as well as general questions from our program members. This site is also the point system to find best practices notes and whitepapers related to functional areas including finance, HR, student aid and reporting… and soon to be the student information system. We call it our Facebook on steroids for Oracle Cloud collaboration!
The Higher Education Collective Community Groups in Action
Our community groups meet on a regular basis with groups of professionals in your institution to collaborate with the other participating Collective institutions to get support, ideas and best-practices from peer institutions as well as Drivestream experts embedded in this member-led calls.
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Meeting weekly with all participating schools, this group of CIOs, Directors and Project Managers works together to share overall project and program best-practices and innovative solutions from peer institutions as well as from our implementation partner, Drivestream.
Collaboration Topics include: Software project management, licensing issues, software development direction, support issues and best-practices in internal processes.
Meeting bi-weekly with all participating schools, this group of CFOs and finance leaders to collaborate and share financial system configuration and process best-practices and innovative solutions from peer institutions as well as from our implementation partner, Drivestream.
Collaboration Topics include: Cash management processes, chart of account transformation, privilege and security management, and other financial best-practices.
Meeting bi-weekly with all participating schools, this group of CHROs and human resource leadership to collaborate and share human resource system configuration, and process best-practices and innovative solutions from peer institutions as well as from our implementation partner, Drivestream.
Collaboration Topics include: Payroll, employee on-boarding, best-practices on internal processes
Meeting bi-weekly with all participating schools, this group of Registrar and Academic Affairs professionals to collaborate and share student management system configuration and processes best-practices and innovative solutions from peer institutions as well as from our implementation partner, Drivestream.