Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Higher education is one of the most powerful assets our state has to uplift families, support businesses, and create prosperity. Graduates of higher education have increased volunteerism, improved health outcomes, and lower incarceration rates. Historically, higher education has underserved many Kansans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

I work to ensure that every person who serves our institution, no matter their role, understands they are an educator and that every educator at our institution serves a significant purpose in advancing our students and community. Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee is president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Alex Johnson, President Emeritus of Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C), who has been serving as interim president since July 2023, after Dr. Jack Thomas announced that he would not seek a renewal of his contract. Progress completely stopped, and chaos reigned,” he said. That’s why I left. Dr. Freeman A. His character is impeccable.

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University Business

JULY 19, 2023

Similarly, McElroy returns to UT-Austin feeling “damaged” by this process after the university tossed her original and subsequent employment contracts. Greg Abbott banned DEI across its public higher education system. However, she just so happened to accept the offer when Texas Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. Johnson is director of grants administration at Lumina Foundation , a private foundation committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. Dr. Susan D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Prison education in the rearview mirror Prison education programs have long been in the crossfire of fierce clashes between those viewing prisons as proper punishment to promote a safe and just society and those seeing prisons as democracy’s hope for rehabilitation and restorative justice. In 2015, the U.S. and Puerto Rico.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 5, 2025

The US Department of Government Efficiency regularly posts cuts to all US federal agencies , including the US Department of Education, which it is working on to dismantle. Here's a current list of Department of Education contracts cut by DOGE. The total cost of employee wages is $596M per year.

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University Business

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Higher education frequently found itself in the national spotlight this past year. 1 culprit detracting young students from entering higher ed As interest in career and technical education rises , higher education’s detractors may point to the costs of postsecondary credentials. Here are two big concepts to reconsider.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Joshua Reda There are also students who don’t have stable or consistent homes who want a place to reside while pursuing their education. Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

are often told by high school counselors and colleges that they do not have many options for higher education. Known to many as Dreamers, DACA recipients, and undocumented students, it’s easy for them to slip through the cracks without getting the educational support or resources they deserve. No Pell Grants. No student loans.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

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.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2025

April 22, 2025 · Episode 256 Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges 33 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. How higher ed leaders are using capital funding strategieslike P3s, bonds, and donor partnershipsto fix infrastructure and housing gaps.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 30, 2025

NewSchool of Architecture and Design, the last remaining US college under Ambow Educations umbrella, is facing significant legal challenges that could threaten its survival. Adding to its woes, NewSchool is currently embroiled in two major lawsuits over unpaid rent and contract breaches. seeking $4.47

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts. The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways. We serve working professionals.”

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 28, 2024

When the teaching grant plus fee of £6,000 was replaced by a student fee of £9,000, universities reacted like lemmings by increasing student numbers to make a profit. The ratio of academic staff to students has barely shifted, classes are crowded and young academics are on insecure short-term contracts. Continue reading.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

Department of Education laid off nearly all federal staff responsible for managing, analyzing and interpreting higher education data through the National Center for Education Statistics. Much of the media was focused on challenges to DEI, the loss of research grants and immigration visits to campuses.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

April 8, 2025 · Episode 254 Using Faculty Satisfaction Data for Strategic Change in Higher Education 36 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Faculty surveys are a familiar practice in higher education, but many institutions fall short when it comes to using that data to drive long-term change. Mullinix and R.

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University Business

APRIL 26, 2024

Forward to today, she has secured a new contract at Hollins University that extends her role as president until 2030 and was elected chair of the board of directors for the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. Of the six major presidential higher education associations, NAICU is the only organization in the U.S.

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2025

We concluded that this form of emotional labour was a form of wife work, work that is essential to the running of the home (aka Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)) yet often undervalued and the person carries the mental load. These are often taken for granted and operate at a subconscious level.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Given that individuals receive a substantial return from their investment in higher education (HE), it is right that the balance of costs should be shared between students and the state. University education would increase young people’s productivity and ingenuity, while enhancing their understanding of their responsibilities to society.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

In the last few months, however, higher education has become the center of controversy relating to several developments integral to national interest. The Committee on Education and the Workforce, which conducted the hearing, launched a formal investigation into the three schools. “Ultimately, as the U.S.

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University Business

JANUARY 22, 2024

The program is set to offer graduating seniors interested in pursuing jobs in high-demand industries 80% coverage of their tuition or up to $8,000 in grants. The expanded access and affordability for high school graduates granted at Maine Free College and the Idaho Launch program share similar motivations.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

Before his career in higher education, Johnson played professional basketball in Europe and South America, Town Talk reports. Wetstein attracted $14 million in federal grants and grew Cabrillo’s endowment by almost $30 million, Press Banner reports. He also servesas a trustee of Washington and Jefferson College.

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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. Typically, about 95% of materials budgets are in subscriptions and contracts (including journals, databases, etc), maybe 2.5% 2013, section 3.4]

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University Business

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Fraud investigations are on the rise in higher education institutions. Armed with insider information, relators file fraud cases on the government’s behalf, leading to a recent uptick in government investigations of higher education institutions. Any program, contract or grant involving government dollars can fall under the FCA.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

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. It began to be taken for granted that universities would be responsible for research as well as teaching.

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Ray Schroeder

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Montana State University had the right to protect the health of students during the COVID-19 emergency by shifting to remote education — and it didn’t break a contract in doing so. There is no material factual dispute whether MSU had the right to deliver online educational services.

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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. However, the Equality Act of 2010, making it discriminatory to enforce retirement by age, has helped to discourage contracts promising ‘permanence’. 2(5)(d) and s.2

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SRHE

JULY 16, 2024

by Neil Harrison and Simon Benham-Clarke The face of higher education is changing, albeit slowly. Despite decades of initiatives to seed diversity, the academy – in the UK at least – continues to be dominated by voices from groups that have historically enjoyed educational privilege.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 2, 2021

In this second post of our five-part series on Embracing a New Higher Education Governance Model , we discuss the updated board duties in higher ed and how boards can embrace their new roles and responsibilities as they work to meet the challenges facing colleges and universities today. Take duty of loyalty, for example.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

The hostile takeover of public higher education in Florida continues, as seen in the latest higher education bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives. ” Language in the bill would also ban any general education core courses from including an array of critical schools of thought such as CRT.

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University Business

JUNE 25, 2024

Long gone are the days when colleges and universities could visit Capitol Hill and expect universal support for campus grants. This combination of factors creates a uniquely difficult environment for higher education institutions seeking federal funding. billion — between 2012 and 2024, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

A: Doctoral-granting university libraries in ACRL spend about 37 percent of their budgets on salaries, 13 percent on fringe benefits, 40 percent on materials and 11 percent on operations. This means the enormous for-profit vendors retain their contracts because they are too big to cancel and the small nonprofit publishers usually lose out.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 23, 2019

This article was originally appeared in The Chronicle for Higher Education on August 7, 2019, written by Goldie Blumenstyk. Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean.

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SRHE

JULY 15, 2022

Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. Meanwhile Helen’s negotiating skills were also put to good use in successive new long-term contracts with publishers Taylor & Francis and Wiley, achieving for the Society a level of financial security unimaginable only a few years earlier.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Kotlikoff will serve as interim president under a two-year contract. Pollack is also credited with increasing by 1,000 the number of undergraduates receiving grant-based financial aid, the university noted. He was also instrumental in creating LC Online, a national educational platform. Who’s hiring? Elizabeth S.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

We are proud to maintain the highest standards in academic quality and student support, and this accreditation reinforces our position as a leader in higher education." It could also renegotiate its contracts, reduce staffing, and sell off various assets to continue operating.

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