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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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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. So, we’ll go ahead and get started. I am curating them.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugy of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years. So, we’ll go ahead and get started. I am curating them.

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University autonomy and government control by funding

SRHE

As Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan sent a Letter of Guidance to the Office for Students on 4 April 2024. The change of Government in July 2024 brought a new Secretary of State in the person of Bridget Phillipson but no fresh Letter of Guidance before she spoke in the Commons in a Higher Education debate on 4 November, 2024.

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Death to DEI: Practical advice to higher education leaders during the rollback

University Business

This EO also directs federal agencies, employees, contractors, grantees to terminate, to the maximum extend allowed by law all DEI/DEIA-related grants, contracts, and performance requirements. President and Fellows of Harvard College, 600 U.S. 181 (2023).

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Supreme Court dismantled decades of legal precedent in June, ruling against race-conscious college admissions and bringing an end to affirmative action practices in higher education. Those who did not receive a Pell Grant would have been eligible for up to $10,000 in relief. In response to the decision, the U.S. Approximately 2.9

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DEI remains a big target as Trump makes more cuts

University Business

19) Over $1 billion worth of contracts with education nonprofits have gone up in flames over the past 10 days, and public institutions may soon need to close DEI-related programming, according to another wave of executive orders from President Donald Trump. Harvard , which banned racial preferences in college admissions.

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