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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was really to lift up, determine where investment was needed, begin to raise funds to do that. Mary Baldwin is not a wealthy institution, but Fox said she believes in the power of ideas and loves to raise money. Within two months, she had raised $15 million and the board approved the project.

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Paying it Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lopez Valdez’s focus on the human element started when he was a visiting scholar in Switzerland during the 2014-15 academic year. He’s looking around, seeing what’s here, and seeing possibilities for growth, extension, development.” Lopez Valdez is hoping to organize accommodations and funding for additional Ph.D.

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President Moves: Morehouse’s ‘record-breaking’ leader announces retirement

University Business

The company was acquired by Spotify in 2014, where Lucchese later founded the “Creator” team to provide services directly to musicians. Thomas has also overseen substantial infrastructure investments and raised more funds than any president in Morehouse’s 157-year history.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

This considered the ‘demand for research from business’ alongside the ‘dual support’ system of university funding, with infrastructure funded from the block grant and funding for research projects dependent on grants and the Research Councils. Funding for them may be uncertain.

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

As Scotland marks 20 years of its enhancement-led approach to quality in the higher education sector, I reflect on my involvement, particularly around work supporting student development, employability, and personal and professional success. Looking back, there is nostalgia about the various enhancement initiatives I’ve designed or led.

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

SRHE

The irritations researchers experience when working with secondary data are exemplified in looking at the REF 2021 results and comparing with 2014. I will first give the summary of results, set alongside those from 2014, against advice, but one role of the REF is to demonstrate more and better research. Impact 2014 44 39.9

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New evidence on the challenges and consequences of precarious work for university students

SRHE

Headline news has reignited debates about how financial hardship and challenging labour market conditions are squeezing students’ study-life balance, and alarmingly raised claims that part-time jobs may disproportionally disadvantage less privileged students ( BBC News 2023 ). His monograph Media, Conflict and Diaspora (I.B.