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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants. Dr. Stella Perez is CEO of Next Level Consulting, a contract firm focused on higher ed accreditation, state/federal compliance, and competency-based education.

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Invisible labour: visible activism

SRHE

we acknowledge that invisible and emotional labour can affect any academic of any gender, particularly those on education/ teaching focussed contracts. These are often taken for granted and operate at a subconscious level. We go beyond individual experiences to co-construct the meaning of invisible and emotional labour collectively.

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It’s the metrics, not the Matrix, part 3: Degenerative AI

Teaching Matters Online Learning

For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants). Upon closer inspection, time is not saved at all, especially for those in precarious temporary contracts, or with student loans, or who need a promotion, or on scholarship deadlines. Paris: Seuil. The Hélène Cixous Reader. Derrida, J.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Almost all of the materials budgets are tied up in subscriptions and access fees for online resources, often with multi-year contracts with vendors that provide these services. Typically, about 95% of materials budgets are in subscriptions and contracts (including journals, databases, etc), maybe 2.5% 2013, section 3.4]

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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

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It’s the metrics, not the Matrix, part 3: Degenerative AI

Teaching Matters Online Learning

For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants). Upon closer inspection, time is not saved at all, especially for those in precarious temporary contracts, or with student loans, or who need a promotion, or on scholarship deadlines. Paris: Seuil. The Hélène Cixous Reader. Derrida, J.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

I took that to be mandatory, and it led to many staff being moved to ‘teaching only’ contracts. Between 2013-4 and 2019-20, annual numbers went up from 774 to 964, nearly 20%. Another declaration of interest, he gave me a considerable grant to assess its impact (!) 25 fell between 25% and 49%, and 24 had 24% or below.