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Recent financial aid increases lead to lower student net prices, per College Board

University Business

.” Colleges and universities distributed over $160 billion in grant aid to undergraduate and graduate students in the 2023-24 academic year. Over half (52%) came from the institution, 28% came from the federal government, and 9% from state sources. Since 2013-14, institutional grant aid for all students rose by $19.6

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He says the idea for the bill came “from the failure of the federal government regarding immigration policy, especially when it comes to young people who often come here as infants.” Fed failure That’s the feeling of California Assembly member David Alvarez who introduced the legislation last February.

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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. Senators are now working to create stronger federal oversight over state funding. billion in fiscal year 2020.

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Why federal oversight on higher education is growing on multiple fronts

University Business

Public and private colleges and universities have long enjoyed independence from federal governing bodies over the nature of their operations. Federal lawmakers and related agencies have advanced their probes into U.S. institutions’ transactions with foreign entities involving research contracts.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts. Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. Other graduate students have received promotions to senior level managers.

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

While such academic freedom policies or standards may also be incorporated into faculty contracts, contractual protections for academic freedom do not preclude courts from recognizing distinct First Amendment protection for public higher education faculty based, at least in part, on such institutional policies or standards.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them. The federal government alone uses dozens of definitions. That’s problematic because college land grants get so big that they make their communities less rural.