# Financial Health ![[Pasted image 20201025153930.png]] *After being ousted from Cooper Union in 20XX, former president Jamshed Bharucha and former financial consultant Robert Spencer, founded "University Analytics" a short-lived consulting firm. * What is it? Where did it come from? # Caveats If you're not achieving your mission, you're still unhealthy. But Cooper doesn't really have a [Mission](Mission%20e35f2c75ed5447c398625895d16ac45c.md). # Anthropomorphic The [Indicator](Indicator%20abe1d71eedeb4a8aa18feed96cdbef90.md) is the heartbeat The idea that the institution has a pulse you can listen to But the pulse is a reductive construct # Sustainability > "In the January 2017 progress report, "the FEC noted that the board adopted "a measure of long-term financial health, "the composite financial index, CFI, "that will help us assess our capacity "to sustain full tuition scholarships "and other programmatic investments over time.