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Howard University Takes Affirmative Step, All HBCUs Need More Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The nation’s oldest private and public universities respectively, both were financed by profits from the enslavement of African-descended people. And despite chronic and discriminatory under-funding, HBCUs have stood as the greatest driver of social and economic mobility of Black Americans in the country.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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Can higher education in Pennsylvania be saved?

University Business

Pennsylvania is facing a double-edged sword in funding its higher education system next year, so much so that Gov. ” Since then, he has commissioned his Acting Education Secretary Khalid Mumin to create a task force to develop a statewide reform plan for next year. . compared to 11.3%. While the governor’s proposed 7.1%

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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College endowments dropped in fiscal year 2022

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Even as endowment returns dipped, colleges tapped those assets to fund their needs. The median percentage of budgets funded by endowments was 5.3 The reason for that reduction, explained Ken Redd, senior director of research and policy analysis at NACUBO, was largely due to staffing challenges at colleges.

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

SRHE

I took a gap year, completed an undergraduate degree, and subsequently received funding for a Master’s and a PhD. I believe I am one of the first of this new generation of highly indebted graduates to have been afforded the time and space to develop expertise around and reflect on the HE system I was a part of.

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After the election: the end of season awards

SRHE

The least successful attempt to give money to the electorate The HE electorate has rarely been courted by any party, but Prime Minister Theresa May made an exception in 2017 when she raised the repayment threshold for student loans in an ill-conceived attempt at “putting money back into the pockets of graduates with high levels of debt”.