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NC A&T Chancellor Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr. Announces Retirement at End of 2023-24 School Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

s leading producer of Black STEM graduates; received record research and sponsored programs contracts and grants; and produced a $2.4 A&T as an engineering professor, Martin subsequently stepped into the roles of college dean and vice chancellor for academic affairs. in electrical engineering at Virginia Tech.

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Striking U of Washington Postdocs, Scientists Reach Tentative Deal

Confessions of a Community College Dean

University of Washington postdoctoral researchers and research scientists and engineers announced Thursday that they have paused their strike after reaching tentative agreements with the institution that would grant significant raises, among other things. The strike began June 7.

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How to keep moving when higher ed data dries up

University Business

While the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, also known as IPEDS, continues uninterrupted for now, the broader budget cuts and contract cancellations at NCES signal future disruptions to data collection and reporting, sounding the alarm for higher education planning. The forms are still being submitted. Completion rates?

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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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Capital Funding Strategies in Higher Education: How Universities Are Solving Infrastructure and Student Housing Challenges: Changing Higher Ed podcast 256 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Brent Miller of HED

The Change Leader, Inc.

Corporate Sponsorships: Companies like Ford Motor Company are entering into collaborative research and facility-sharing agreements with universities, creating mutual value while funding new infrastructure. students in robotics to advance mutual research priorities. UC Merced 2020 , a $1.3B

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Why the Defense Department is poised to become HBCUs’ new best friend

University Business

Federal officials discovered that land-grant HBCUs in 16 states have been underfunded compared to their neighboring, predominantly white research universities by more than $12 billion since 1987. Secondly, the size of the Defense’s research and development budget is expected to reach $145 billion in 2024.

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

After it spent more than $850-million over the past two years to buy companies that offer professional education and run coding boot camps in conjunction with colleges, 2U investors could hardly have been shocked over the company’s moves to diversify from a reliance on contracts with universities for master’s degrees. Department of Education.