Private colleges and universities are managing a risk landscape defined by structural pressures, including demographic decline, price sensitivity, a volatile federal policy environment, deferred maintenance, workforce strain and the rapid arrival of artificial intelligence.
The Unison Risk Advisors™ 2026 Enterprise Risk Management Benchmark Report examines how senior leaders at private, not-for-profit institutions perceive risk across their campuses. It expands the framework to 88 enterprise risks across 11 operational domains, adding contemporary exposures such as AI governance, data governance, employee well-being, talent and succession, retention and sustainability that were not discretely measured in prior studies.
