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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. Part of the CPE’s role is to bring about a positive return on the investment of public funds in higher education. “In Thompson also helped create policies that allowed the development of wrap-around services, which propelled the success rate upwards.

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Irregulation: is the Office for Students fit for purpose?

SRHE

The Committee, with a remit “to consider matters relating to industry, including the policies of His Majesty’s Government to promote industrial growth, skills and competitiveness, and to scrutinise the work of UK regulators”, published 12 questions on which it invited evidence. However, universities must take their share of responsibility.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The agreements raised questions, as the Times put it, “about whether promoting gambling on campus—especially to people who are at an age when they are vulnerable to developing gambling disorders—fits the mission of higher education.” Their contracts have raised a number of ethical and policy flags.

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the university’s longtime president, Glenda Glover, alumni and other supporters of the Nashville institution have argued against a proposal that would place the institution under the oversight of the Tennessee Board of Regents, the governing board for 37 technical and community colleges in the state.

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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

SRHE

A further concern for many educational researchers is that approaches to ethical review, initially developed in relation to biomedical sciences, have largely been positivist. We have each grappled with the complexities, vagaries, frustrations and ‘emotional vicissitudes’ ( Monaghan, O’Dwyer and Gabe, 2013 ) of gaining ethical approval.

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The importance of academic mental health

SRHE

The mental health of students has long been a topic of interest with decades of primary research, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, alongside cross cultural comparisons, highlighting the poor mental health of University Students in comparison to the general public ( Brown, 2018 ; Campbell et al, 2022 ; Macaskill, 2013 ).

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

To measure ROI for higher education graduates, Michael developed the Price-to-Earnings Premium (PEP) for Third Way. In addition to the PEP, Michael developed the Economic Mobility Index (EMI) , with and for thirdway.org , to examine the top schools serving low-income students across the U.S. to gauge how they are doing.