The Edge: Revenue Worries Drive Continuing Interest in Partnerships

Higher-ed leaders continue to rely on partnerships with vendors for campus operations, but as a new Chronicle and P3•EDU survey shows, colleges’ interest in deals with private companies for online-program management (OPM) has fallen precipitously in the last year. That’s one of several findings that jumped out at me as I previewed the “2023 Public-Private Partnership Survey.” And it’s not the only data point that reflects how presidents, provosts, and chief financial officers are responding to recent economic and technological change.