Peer Group Visits

Peer Group Visits

Designed to be the antithesis of an accreditation review, Peer Group Visits facilitate the sharing of best practices and success stories, and allow the participants to learn from comparable institutions for the benefit of the visitor’s institution and their own business leadership.

  • ABACC can facilitate this process for you, recruiting willing participants, providing sample documents and resources, and assisting the host school in creating a successful visit.
  • Peer Group Visits are open to all levels of business administration including chief financial officers, controllers, and business managers and is open to other sub-groups including financial aid directors, physical plant administrators, information technology directors, and others.
  • One “Aspiration Team Member” may be allowed per visit (at the discretion of the Peer Group Members). This person may be interested in visiting a particular group of campuses but may not feel they could provide a similar situation and therefore would attend the campus visits, but not host their own visit.
APPLY & SELECT YOUR PEERS

Who Pays for These Visits?

  • Travel

    Each team member arranges and covers their own travel expenses.

  • Lodging

    Each team member covers their own lodging expense unless the host school decides to provide on-campus housing.

  • Transportation

    The host school should arrange and cover the expense of transportation during the visit. Team members should arrange and cover their own transportation to/from the institution. The host school may make transportation arrangements to/from the local airport, in which case the host school should cover that expense.

  • Meals

    Each team member covers their own meal expenses while traveling and at any restaurants during the visit. The host school covers the expense of any on-campus meals. It is recommended that the host school arrange at least one on-campus meal in the student dining hall during the visit.

Potential Discussion Ideas

  • Master planning
  • Strategic planning
  • Board reporting and dashboard indicators
  • Unique campus issues—“what’s different about us”
  • Internal and/or external financial reporting
  • Employee evaluation processes and forms
  • Business office policies and procedures and/or manuals
  • Faculty and staff policies and procedures and/or manuals
  • Most helpful organizations—“where I go when I need something”
  • Benchmarking and reporting
  • Responses to recent regulatory issues
  • Job descriptions
  • Institutional organization
  • Investment management and policies
  • Debt management and policies
  • Internal control processes and policies
  • Deferred maintenance policies, schedules, and plans
  • Budget processes and guidelines
  • Emergency response procedures and manuals
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