Higher Education
Overcoming higher education challenges
Dean Dorton delivers higher education consulting services tailored to address the unique needs of this sector, including workforce development, robust technology infrastructure, and financial sustainability. Our higher education team has a strong emphasis on ensuring sustained compliance and success through evolving financial, operational, and technological regulations. Our specialized higher education solutions include:
- Student Financial Aid Audits: Ensuring compliance and accuracy in funding
- Outsourced Accounting: Comprehensive accounting services to fit your institution’s unique needs
- IT Compliance and Cybersecurity: Leveraging data to drive decision-making and safeguard against cyber threats
- Endowment Management & Planned Giving Consulting: Crafting strategies to leverage your current operations and future needs while protecting value
- Technology Infrastructure: Addressing the challenges of aging technology, including dorms and instructional buildings, and modernizing facilities to keep pace with other institutions
- NCAA Agreed-Upon Procedures: Keeping you compliant with NCAA financial reporting requirements related to intercollegiate athletic programs
- Internal Audit: Working as or supporting your higher education institutions’ internal audit or risk management team ensuring regulatory compliance, improving efficiencies and cost savings, reducing risks, and providing recurring cybersecurity training to faculty and staff
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WHY DEAN DORTON?
A Trusted Higher Education Advisory Firm
At Dean Dorton, we understand that the path to academic distinction is as unique as your institution itself. That’s why our higher education consulting services are tailored to foster educational innovation and operational efficiency. We go beyond the surface to deeply understand your institution’s needs, aspirations, and challenges.
Bringing a wealth of industry experience to the table, our team offers insights that anticipate the shifting dynamics of educational environments. We’re dedicated to developing customized solutions that resonate with the mission and values of your institution—co-creating the future of higher education in the process.