article thumbnail

Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Higher education associations, study abroad organizations, colleges and universities, and others are calling on the Department of Education to rescind guidance issued earlier this year that would expand the definition of outside companies that are subject the department’s oversight. citizen or lawful resident.

article thumbnail

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

There is definitely not as much “wiggle room” as you would think in the materials budget! 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. on one time purchases, and the other 2.5%

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Nevertheless, agreed definition seems elusive. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

article thumbnail

Hearing the voices of care-experienced academics

SRHE

Definitive numbers do not yet exist, but it is estimated there are at least 5,000 care-experienced students in UK universities at any given time. This study was kindly funded through a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Small Grant. It includes, for example, those who spent time in foster care or children’s homes.

article thumbnail

Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them. One of the significant challenges of talking about rural colleges is that there is no one agreed definition of what rural is. The federal government alone uses dozens of definitions.

article thumbnail

Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

They often require students to sign a contract and charge additional fees ranging from $2,000 to $8,000 a year. Colleges grant accommodations when existing documentation clearly links the current impact of the disability to the requests your student is making. Fewer than 100 schools fall into this category.

article thumbnail

Improving Presidential Tenure and Effectiveness in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 170 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. “Brit” Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Dr. Kirwan is past chair of, among other boards, the American Council for Higher Education, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, the American Association of Colleges & Universities, the Business Higher Education Forum and the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce. Here is what the board does.