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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As more and more institutions continue to raise tuition to meet rising costs due to dwindling revenue streams and state and federal funding, students are not only looking for value but are hesitant to take on the debt of a college education. Also, there is the affordability of college.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the issues addressed are reading academic text and managing assignments, which can be especially challenging when the students are still developing their command of English. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino.

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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

SRHE

A further concern for many educational researchers is that approaches to ethical review, initially developed in relation to biomedical sciences, have largely been positivist. The REC was therefore required to trust its researchers to act with integrity.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The private ‘alternative providers’ encouraged by Governments in the first decades of the twenty-first century have rarely made a significant effort to be research-active so far. Governments have actively encouraged ‘Knowledge Exchange’. Funding for them may be uncertain. However the Levy does not fund Degree Apprenticeships.

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Impact of the Cost of Living Crisis on Higher Education

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The promise of personal and professional development, developing knowledge of a subject you love, and the prospect of a career in your chosen field have all been strong magnets for students. Unnecessary barriers or dissuasive language will do exactly that, and prevent much needed funding from reaching the students who need it.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

They often lack access to offices, professional development, research funds, and opportunities to collaborate with peers or vote in faculty meetings. With all this, tenure-line faculty were progressively cut out of the full exercise of shared governance. They are hired on a per-class, per-semester basis.

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$16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 171 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

The Change Leader, Inc.

The Knights Commission proposes there should be one governing association for football called the National College Football Association that’s separate from the governing association. Meanwhile, the NCAA will govern all other sports. We are funded by the John S. This isn’t a proposal to dismantle every conference.