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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“These are the institutions that can show you with their data, with their evidence-based practices and with their leadership what they’re doing,” says Santiago. They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. years, compared to the collegewide average of 5.2

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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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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. During the Great Recession of 2008–09, Harvard raised liquid funds by issuing $2.5