League Advantages

The League's advantages include an amazing virtual team of experienced educators and a long and successful history of catalyzing and identifying best practices on a variety of issues and topics. The League's virtual network of consultants, trainers, and speaker's provides it with the resources needed to meet any client's requests. Additionally, the League's familiarity with the issues today's educational leaders face positions it well to offer targeted assistance more so than commercial service providers better suited for and more focused on the private sector. Plus, a fair assumption is that clients prefer calling an organization they already know and trust for help. Consequently, the League is the best solution for high-quality services at an affordable cost.

The League's key advantage over in-house resources is that most campus-based personnel are already overloaded with their regular responsibilities and, consequently, they don't have time for taking on additional tasks. In-house personnel also have the disadvantage of being closely associated with their college, limiting their ability to appear independent and objective. Also, external experts can more easily approach faculty, staff, and administrators on a confidential basis, gathering information and making initial contacts in ways that in-house resources cannot.

The League's key advantage over individual proprietors and smaller consulting firms is that these individuals and smaller companies cannot provide the breadth and depth of high-level consultants and services that the League is able to provide through its considerable virtual network of leading educational experts.

The League's key advantage over high-level, high-cost commercial consulting firms (i.e., Andersen Consulting, Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers) is that they are essentially name-brand generalists who do not have the level of understanding of community colleges upon which the League has built its reputation. Also, high-level, high-cost commercial consulting firms typically have upper-level personnel selling new jobs and lesser-experienced associates delivering the work. At the League, clients work closely with our experienced consultants to make sure the services delivered meet the clients' needs.

Some service organizations are more well-know name-brand service providers within the higher education sector, but as with the high-level, commercial consulting firms, the more familiar, higher education service suppliers tend to focus primarily on four-year institutions and typically provide their services at a cost far higher than those provided by the League.