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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” California State University, East Bay Dr. Cathy Sandeen Almost 60% of California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), students are transfers, and their needs are taken into account. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. They’re on a journey.

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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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Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

Confessions of a Community College Dean

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track].

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Tennessee State cites past underfunding as cause of problems

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At stake is local control of an institution in a state that has admitted to years of inequitable funding for its only public historically Black college. A previous legislative report found between $150 and $544 million in unpaid land-grant funds should have gone to the university from fiscal years 1957 through 2007.

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Faculty Strike Ends at U of Illinois at Chicago

Confessions of a Community College Dean

20 percent raise pools over the course of the 4-year contract[.] Increased professional development funds[.] As for student mental health wellness, the university said back then it had approved a “$4.47 Increased minimum salaries for the lowest paid faculty: $60,000 [non-tenure track] and $71,500 [tenure track.]

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CPL for Incremental & Non-Credit Credentials

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In this episode, we speak with Melanie Booth, Executive Director of the Higher Learning Commission’s Credential Lab, and Ian Roark, Vice Chancellor of Workforce Development & Innovation at Pima Community College, to discuss the policy and practice of making CPL a reality for different forms of credentials. Yeah, please.

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7 missteps university leaders must avoid in their AI approach

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. --> 0 % of higher education staff members are already using ChatGPT for their work --> Broad applications AI holds the potential to transform nearly every aspect of campus life , ranging from teaching and learning to student services, research, enrollment and marketing, advancement, HR, finance, facilities management, and IT.