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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. In 2015, the U.S. 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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How to keep moving when higher ed data dries up

University Business

While the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, also known as IPEDS, continues uninterrupted for now, the broader budget cuts and contract cancellations at NCES signal future disruptions to data collection and reporting, sounding the alarm for higher education planning. The College Scorecard, a 2015 tool created by the U.S.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Budgets for an Assessment and Planning Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: Doctoral-granting university libraries in ACRL spend about 37 percent of their budgets on salaries, 13 percent on fringe benefits, 40 percent on materials and 11 percent on operations. This means the enormous for-profit vendors retain their contracts because they are too big to cancel and the small nonprofit publishers usually lose out.

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Fraud in academia: How can universities avoid costly litigation?

University Business

Any program, contract or grant involving government dollars can fall under the FCA. Though healthcare fraud is the largest type of FCA fraud, this article focuses on non-healthcare fraud in higher education: research and grant fraud, unlawful recruiting, failure to disclose ties to foreign governments, and cybersecurity failure fraud.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

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$16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 171 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

The Change Leader, Inc.

By 2032, according to a new report from Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in partnership with CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), college sports revenue, including college football playoff revenue and new lucrative conference media contracts, is projected to reach $16 billion annually for 54 schools with the most lucrative football programs.

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Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 184 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. "Brit" Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

He served as chancellor of the University System of Maryland (USM) for 13 years (2002-2015), president of the Ohio State University for four years (1998-2002), and president of the University of Maryland, College Park for 10 years (1988-1998). It was a difficult job back in 2015. It is just a monumentally more difficult job today.