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America is undergoing a calculated retreat in federal education policy. Recently, the federalgovernment terminated more than 100 educator preparation grants, including programs under the Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP), Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED), and Teacher and School Leader Incentive (TSL) initiatives.
These terminations have affected educational institutions across the country, including large research universities, small private colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and alternative teacher preparation pathways.
Lomax UNCF’s new research report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs , offers empirical evidence of the profound impact HBCUs have on the success of students, communities and the nation as a whole. And as our research has found, every dollar spent, and every job created comes with a multiplier that extends its impact.
Researchers from the University of Oregon (UO) have earned a $3 million grant from the federalgovernment to help tackle global warming, while incorporating the insights of rural and Indigenous communities which are often left out of decisions about what happens around them.
These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federalgovernment to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization. In 2018 the U.S.
He was appointed as fellow to help bolster Brown’s efforts and relationships with HBCUs, according to Brown officials, who added that he will create a consortium of partner schools for research, faculty development, student opportunities, and bolstering the number of HBCU undergraduates attending graduate school.
is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus.
The surveys I and many other researchers fielded to try and put numbers to the challenge could only shed partial light, since most colleges and universities refused to participate. But finally, in spring 2020, the federalgovernment asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.
The federalgovernment, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. Department of Education first introduced the designation, to more than 570 today.
Four research questions were developed. Erin Dunlop Velez, director of educational research at RTI International and one of the report’s authors. If you’re going to a public flagship, you’re probably getting a tuition waiver and some kind of stipend because you’re teaching or doing research,” said Velez. Dr. Lorelle L.
Other recommendations include prioritizing evaluation of HEA-funded interventions to develop widely applicable lessons; incorporating equity into policymaking by engaging with researchers, evaluators, and practitioners; and making publicly available data and key findings.
However, she had worked at high levels of the federalgovernment, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.
However, she had worked at high levels of the federalgovernment, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. American also launched an Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Burwell’s first year. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.
The Department of Education has confirmed that Baylor University, the Baptist research institution in Waco, Texas, is immune from certain Title IX complaints “to the extent that they are inconsistent with the University’s religious tenets,” wrote Catherine E. Linda Livingstone.
Researchers have shown that employers use names to discriminate against Black applicants. It is probably a good idea that tax returns do not ask taxpayers to identify their race. But that hardly prevents algorithms and auditors from engaging in discrimination. IRS employees are human.
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It's important to support the research and extension programs at HBCUs and tribal land-grant institutions,” said Dr. Sara Partridge, CAP senior policy analyst and author of the report. Texas A&M University had a state-to-federal funding ratio of 4.8-to-1, The CAP report comes at a time when the bill is up for reauthorization.
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Washington has gone from negative to positive to negative to positive again on network neutrality, and advocates for educators say they need to see the federalgovernment commit to making open networks a policy priority. “It
Toldson, a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and national director of Education Innovation and Research for the NAACP. That was the job of federalgovernment to ensure that the ruling was followed. It was also the responsibility of the states to follow federal rulings in that way.”
“In states like Tennessee where it’s performance-based funding, even if a community college does really well in comparison to its previous year, there are still benchmarks to some extent across the state with other community colleges that can have an adverse impact on funding,” said Smith, whose research currently focuses on community colleges.
is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. in educational policy and planning, Reid hopes to make an impact on federal and state policies related to education. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus.
Image: Disinformation researchers at several U.S. universities are getting swept up in House Republicans’ investigation into the “weaponization” of the federalgovernment. Centers at the three universities research disinformation online and how to stop it from spreading.
While cities have made great strides in preparing for the extremes of climate change, and local, state, and federalgovernments are paying more attention to the growing crisis, more needs to be done to protect and reach out to marginalized and vulnerable populations, said Monteblanco. I wish I had her listening skills.”
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For research institutions that work with the federalgovernment — and specifically the Department of Defense — the stakes are even higher. Those colleges and universities are entrusted with information few others are granted access to, and that reality was the impetus behind…
Purdue University will pay the federalgovernment $737,400 to settle allegations that a researcher falsified data, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Indiana.
HBCUs receive less than 1% of federalresearch funding and development grants, and less than their share of state and federal funding overall. HBCUs in states such as Mississippi, Maryland, and Tennessee have fought for hundreds of millions of dollars that states discriminatorily deprived them. We can change that.
Colleges and universities face sweeping impacts as state resources decrease and the federalgovernment moves to significantly reduce funding for research, student aid, and other long-running higher education programs. Technologies that are new, rapidly evolving, and not yet fully proven carry inherent uncertainties.
Growth in research and development spending hit a 20-year high in higher ed, according to the latest data. Colleges and universities shared the bulk of the costs with the federalgovernment in fiscal year 2023, which saw research and development spending grow by 11.2%. The average growth since 2013 was 5% annually.
But “many of these articles are getting the story wrong,” says the latest analysis from New America, a research organization and think tank that is taking a deeper look into what it calls “college declinism.” People still want the government to make college affordable. ” U.S. .”
This shift has seismic implications for all higher education institutions but the disruption will likely be greatest on those below the emerging research institution level. The federal data scaffolding may be crumbling but the need to tell the full story of higher educationclearly, credibly and comparablyremains intact.
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government about his Chinese connections and Chinese money has retired from the university. “From 2011 to 2015, defendant developed a relationship with Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China and participated in the Chinese government’s Thousand Talents Program (TTP),” Zobel wrote. 1, the university said.
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Events in the Sunshine State also reflect an ongoing legal debate over the extent that First Amendment rights apply to public college and university professors in carrying out their teaching, research and service duties. Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v.
It is by far the largest and most important strike in the history of American higher education, with the potential to transform both the status and income of those who work in an “industry” that now employs more workers than the federalgovernment.
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and 41%, respectively, at the bachelor’s and master’s levels, according to preliminary data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. It makes sense, considering how higher education faces revitalized pressure from students— and the federalgovernment —to ensure high-value degrees with strong returns on investment.
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