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Audit of Gallaudet University Shows Significant Administrative Salary Increases Amid Stagnant Academic Spending and Faculty Salaries

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new audit of Gallaudet University has shown that administrative salary rose by 107% ($11.3 million) since 2019. The evidence is clear that Gallaudet has very high and increasing administrative costs,” Bunsis writes about the private university that educates the deaf and hard of hearing.

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Survey: 23% of all undergraduate students struggle with food insecurity

University Business

The 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20) is the survey’s first iteration to ask students about food insecurity and homelessness, and it may have unearthed a different kind of pandemic students have long been struggling with in pursuit of postsecondary education. million and 3.6 million students nationwide.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Iowa Wesleyan University is closing, citing rising costs, shifting enrollment trends, declining fundraising and the governor’s rejection of a proposal for federal COVID-19 relief funds. Now, five years later, Iowa Wesleyan is falling to the market forces it temporarily fended off.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edward’s University St. Edward’s University, a private university in Austin, Texas, enrolls 2,766 undergraduate students, 51% of whom are Latino and 40% are Pell Grant recipients. Starting in 2019, there has been no statistically significant difference in one-year or two-year persistence between these two groups.

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Fundraising During Uncertain Times: What Not to Do

EAB

Among EAB’s partner institutions, for example, click rates increased 61% on Giving Day solicitations from 2019 to 2020. Amidst uncertainty, it’s also critical to be able to show senior university leaders ROI numbers for all Advancement investments, including engagement activities.

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This for-profit believes it’s being “targeted” by the government

University Business

The conflict between the federal government and GCU, one of the country’s largest Christian Universities in the nation, first began when it applied to be recognized as a non-profit to the Department of Education in 2019 to streamline its federal funding process.

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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Rize was founded in 2019, and Adrian began using the platform the following year. According to federal data, Adrian listed 97 full-time instructors in 2019, but that number had dropped to 85 by 2021. That allowed the college to build out new majors, which in turn brought in students and revenue.

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