"It's a competitive marketplace," Scarborough said. "Students have many, many choices, and they're going to want to come to an institution that has the facilities and equipment that helps support the kind of higher education that they believe that they need."
Scarborough has a track record of streamlining costs at the handful of other colleges listed on his resume.
He says he's using his first 90 days at the helm assessing what steps he may pursue at the University of Akron to balance academic and non-academic investment.