Education & Research

How we help

Huron's Education & Research division partners with colleges, universities, and academic health centers to address strategic, financial, and operational challenges. Their approach focuses on transformation, fostering innovation, collaboration, and efficiency across institutions. Huron offers services ranging from strategy and innovation to digital solutions and financial advisory, aiming to enhance the student experience, improve research outcomes, and optimize operational performance. With expertise spanning various educational sectors, including public and private institutions and research centers, Huron helps organizations adapt and thrive in an evolving educational landscape.

Colleges, universities, and academic health centers continue to be faced with an evolving array of strategic, financial, and operational challenges and opportunities. Huron partners with you to help transform your institution, putting possible into practice to catalyze innovation, collaboration, efficiency, and change.

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Strategy and Innovation

Research Enterprise

Student Lifecycle

Digital, Technology, and Analytics

Organizational Transformation

Business and Finance Operations

Financial Advisory

Advancement and Alumni Engagement

Intercollegiate Athletics

Campus Health and Well-Being

Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance

Managed Services and Outsourcing

Markets we serve

Huron's industry-specific and technical expertise is reflected in the diverse range of clients we serve across the education & research continuum, including:

Four-year public and private institutions
Academic health centers
Cancer centers
Children's hospitals
Research institutes
Two-year institutions
For-profit institutions
Non-profit institutions
K-12 institutions

Mark Finlan

Managing Director, Education Industry Leader

"At any given time, some part of each higher education institution needs to be transforming to keep up with changing student needs and an evolving environment."
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Laura Zimmermann

Managing Director, Education & Research Digital Leader

Laura has more than two decades of higher education consulting experience that she applies to help position institutions to achieve strategic enrollment goals and support the student lifecycle.

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Laura Yaeger

Managing Director, Strategy and Operations

Laura is a founding member and leader of Huron’s higher education business and has been consulting in the higher education and healthcare industries for more than 25 years.

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Jennifer Pavelec

Managing Director, Research

"Transformation to me is about making a case to shift perspective."

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Rick Rohrbach

Managing Director, Research

Rick has more than 25 years of experience helping institutions across higher education and healthcare improve their research program administration, compliance, and financial performance.
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Lee Smith

Managing Director, Strategy and Operations

Lee is a higher education consulting leader and former administrator who helps colleges and universities develop strategies to transform their operational and financial performance.
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Jennifer Ramey

Managing Director, Education & Research

“Data-informed assessment allows you to make prudent decisions today and provides you with the tools for long-term transformation that is in concert with your institutional strategic plan, mission, and vision.”
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Joe Taylor

Managing Director, Research

Joe has more than 21 years of consulting experience in the higher education and healthcare industries, specializing in helping universities and hospitals transform their research function.
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Raghu Chagarlamudi

Managing Director, Digital, Workday Education & Research Leader

To me, transformation means evolving the way an organization conducts its operations to meet the needs of its students, faculty, and staff. It can be radical or incremental, depending on how an organization needs to redefine itself among its stakeholders and constituents.
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