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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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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. Publishers are able to raise prices almost without limit because the demand for information is inelastic.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At a public university such as Kansas State University, where I am employed, budget and salary information is public, and understanding about budget decisions and functions is important to our constituents and communities. NISO is the National Information Standards Organization. on one time purchases, and the other 2.5%

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Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed podcast 254 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Dr. R. Todd Benson

The Change Leader, Inc.

This episode explores how faculty satisfaction dataalong with broader faculty survey datacan be used to inform institutional decision-making, strengthen shared governance, and support leadership effectiveness. Georgia State University developed a section of the provosts website to outline how survey results informed institutional decisions.

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Helpful summer homework: Are you ready for Congressional reckoning?

University Business

Long gone are the days when colleges and universities could visit Capitol Hill and expect universal support for campus grants. More than 200 schools had a collective 2,900 contracts with Chinese businesses—worth $2.32 Higher education administrators should be ready to discuss their programs—and face tough questions about them.

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Debt and doubt: a graduate’s frustrations with the current higher education loans regime

SRHE

I would be exposing my feelings about the current student finance regime (albeit informed by my related research) to the potentially sharp questioning of experts. The transition period at the end of the PhD consists of a ridiculous juggling act of multiple contracts for everything from research to teaching to administrative roles.