Ep. 5 - Weston Wiebe (CFO, College of the Ozarks) - Hard Work and Debt-Free Degrees
Weston Wiebe came to College of the Ozarks to play basketball, fell in love with its mission, and is now vice president and CFO of the school the Wall Street Journal once called Hard Work U, where every student works and none pays tuition. He walks Bruce through what makes that model work, from student labor to the endowment and annual gifts behind it, and what any business officer can take from it, including the discipline of choosing what to say no to.
Takeaways
Student work offsets real costs, like in-house custodial and landscaping crews, but the biggest factors are a donor-built…
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