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Internal Audit Finds No Issues with the Finances of Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An internal audit of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) has found no issues with the handling of CAR’s finances, according to the school. Kendi announced the laying off of 19 people, in doing so prompting outside questions about the center’s grant management and why it had not completed more research with its funding.

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University of Maryland president’s research will be reviewed for plagiarism

University Business

Pines announced that he has requested an independent review of his research following accusations that he plagiarized a research paper more than 20 years ago. Pines is the university’s first Black president, appointed in 2020. University of Maryland President Darryll J. Read more at The Baltimore Banner.

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Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge

The Guardian Higher Education

Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them One of the UK’s most prestigious universities has seen its funding from a large European research programme plummet from £62m a year to nothing since Brexit, new figures show.

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Boston U Antiracist Research Center Lays Off Employees

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is laying off as many as 15 to 20 staff members, the news website Semafor reported. The center was founded in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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McBride Appointed to Lead Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity at WashU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

CRE2 was established in 2020 to bring the research force of WashU to study how race and ethnicity are integral to the most complex and challenging issues of the time. WashU’s scope and depth of research has the potential to be transformative across our campuses, in our community and beyond. Dr. Dwight A.

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Doctoral progress reviews: managing KPIs or developing researchers?

SRHE

by Tim Clark All doctoral students in the UK are expected to navigate periodic, typically annual, progress reviews as part of their studies ( QAA, 2020 ). Interestingly however, there is currently very little research regarding effectiveness or practice in relation to either of these aspects.