Higher education technology
Your IT department knows systems. We know how your department actually runs.
One day on site, six systems reviewed, a written report in your inbox in 48 hours. No software to buy, nothing to migrate, no vendor on the other end of it.
The problem
Nobody owns the space between the systems.
Registration lives in one platform, scheduling in another, access control in a third, and the payment system talks to none of them. Each one works. Your IT department supports all of them. And still, someone on your staff re-keys the same roster three times a week because that is the only thing holding the seam together.
That work is invisible on every org chart. It does not show up in a ticket queue, it never makes a budget request, and it is almost always the reason a department feels understaffed. Finding it takes someone who has run the building — not someone who has read the manual.
Who's behind it
Written by someone who runs the building.
Brown Compass Group is a practice of one, run by a campus operations director who still holds the pager. Every recommendation in an audit report has to survive the same test the ones in his own department do: can a student employee follow it on a Saturday, and does it still work in week six? Consultants optimize for the deck. Practitioners optimize for Monday.
No vendor ties
No reseller agreements, no referral fees, no platform to sell you at the end of the day.
Fixed price
$450 for the day, stated up front. No scoping call to find out what it costs.
Forwardable
The executive summary goes to your dean as-is. That is what turns findings into budget.
Who it's for
Any department that runs on more systems than it chose.
Recreation — memberships, equipment checkout, facility bookings and payroll for a student workforce that turns over every year.
Housing — assignments, work orders, key and card access, and a conduct trail that has to hold up.
Student life — org registration, event approvals, room requests and the spreadsheet that quietly reconciles all three.
Unions & dining — point of sale, meal plans, space reservations and vendors billing on four different cycles.
Campus rec often reports into Athletics, and sometimes into Student Affairs. Where you sit on the org chart does not change any of this — if your staff move data between systems by hand, the audit applies.
Proof, not promises
See all proof →YouTube
Build a checkout flow that survives finals week
A working equipment-checkout build, start to finish, in nine minutes.
Campus Direct
The report nobody asked you to write
Monthly column on operations, staffing and the systems in between.
Case study
Six hours a week, returned to the front desk
Anonymized findings from an audit at a mid-size public institution.
One day tells you where the hours are going.
Request an audit and you will hear back within two business days with dates, not a discovery call.
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