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Central State Grad Dr. Morakinyo Kuti Appointed University’s President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He served as the vice president for research and economic development and director of land-grant programs and as its associate provost for research. In June, Dr. Jack Thomas, Central State University's former president opted not to renew his contract. “I intend to make the board very proud of this decision.”

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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Running our universities for profit was always a bad idea | Letter

The Guardian Higher Education

When the teaching grant plus fee of £6,000 was replaced by a student fee of £9,000, universities reacted like lemmings by increasing student numbers to make a profit. The ratio of academic staff to students has barely shifted, classes are crowded and young academics are on insecure short-term contracts. Continue reading.

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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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How to write more supportive, inclusive syllabi (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 0 In-Article Advertisement High: 4 In-Article related stories: 7 In-Article Advertisement Low: 0 Include DNU?:

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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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Hearing the voices of care-experienced academics

SRHE

Several reported that they had benefited from ‘lucky’ relationships with doctoral supervisors or senior colleagues that had helped them to progress through short-term contracts or secure a permanent role. This study was kindly funded through a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Small Grant.