Scanning the landscape, college and university financial leaders would seem to have plenty to worry about. A different picture emerges, though, in the results of Inside Higher Ed’s 2022 Survey of College and University Business Officers, out today in advance of this weekend’s annual meeting of the National Association of College and University Business Officers in Denver. While the 248 chief business officers surveyed acknowledge many of the pressures facing their institutions and express slightly less optimism than they did in last year’s survey, they are on balance upbeat about their institutions’ financial stability and largely disinclined to see the need for dramatic changes in how they operate.
