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Recent financial aid increases lead to lower student net prices, per College Board

University Business

.” Colleges and universities distributed over $160 billion in grant aid to undergraduate and graduate students in the 2023-24 academic year. Since 2013-14, institutional grant aid for all students rose by $19.6 Since 2013-14, institutional grant aid for all students rose by $19.6 billion (in 2023 dollars), reaching $82.8

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v. Ceballos , to support its position that faculty classroom speech should be classified under the First Amendment as government speech and subject to complete control by state officials.

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Presidential Turnover Crisis in Higher Ed–Solutions and Challenges: The Role of Politics, Policies, Processes, Performance, and Public Relations

The Change Leader, Inc.

years in 2006, 6.5 Similarly, at Chapel Hill, the board declined to grant tenure to a highly distinguished journalist. This can be included in the buyout clause when creating the compensation contract. ACE respondents stated the average tenure was 8.5 years in 2016, and 5.9 years in 2023.

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The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

The Change Leader, Inc.

And you’re right, if the market blows up, you know, particularly with the bundled services exception, if they change that, that will mean hundreds of schools that are having to renegotiate contracts and figure out, can they provide these services or do I get it from somebody else? So, maybe they end up doing that. [01:02:30]

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Higher Ed Cybersecurity, MOVEit Hack, and 3rd-Party Risk: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 163 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Brian Kelly

The Change Leader, Inc.

Institutions must annually vet employees granted access to information and ensure more people haven’t been granted access. I started way back in 2006 as the chief information security officer for Quinnipiac University. Are you vetting the employees within your institution who are granted access to information?