Books Grants and Contracts Research 
Confessions of a Community College Dean
JANUARY 31, 2023
A: The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) collects statistics on academic library budgets annually. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) also collects statistics on research library budgets annually. About 18 percent is spent on one-time purchases (including books and ebooks).
Confessions of a Community College Dean
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
Almost all of the materials budgets are tied up in subscriptions and access fees for online resources, often with multi-year contracts with vendors that provide these services. Mostly these are print books and other physical materials, but even some of those purchases are tied to a contractual obligation.
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SRHE
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
Fixed-term contracts have long been the norm for research-only contracts, which are usually dependent on short-term funding from a external grant. For some decades the norm for ‘academic’ posts had settled at ‘teaching and research’, with appointments to last until retirement age. 2(5)(d) and s.2 2 (8) (b) ii.).
The Change Leader, Inc.
APRIL 8, 2025
He oversees the initiatives research and institutional collaborations. is the executive director and principal investigator of the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE) a research-practice partnership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. That’s falling On faculty in many respects.
SRHE
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
Few graduate voices on their indebtedness are heard in research or policy discourse. Secondly, I had conducted no research myself on graduate experiences. 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.
SRHE
JULY 15, 2022
Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. In December 2021, after another very successful Research Conference, she gave notice of her intention to retire. The benefits were such that the Society was able to introduce its now established series of annual research grants.
The Change Leader, Inc.
JULY 18, 2023
Research shows that students who must incur debt to attend college have lower GPAs, more health issues both before and after graduation, are less likely to buy a house, will get married and have children later in life, are less likely to start a business, and are less entrepreneurial. Just read the book. It’s a better return on time.
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