Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 21, 2025

Trumps Funding Freezes Halt Medical Research, Deaf Education Training Ryan Quinn Mon, 04/21/2025 - 03:00 AM The federal government says it has cut or frozen billions of dollars worth of grants and contracts to high-profile universities, ending potentially lifesaving studies and critically needed training, according to the researchers.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

Learn how higher ed leaders can turn faculty survey data into strategy, improve shared governance, and increase retention and leadership trust. What Shared Governance Data Reveals About Leadership and Trust Faculty perceptions of shared governance remain a critical focus. About Our Podcast Guest R. Todd Benson, Ed.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Retiring from the military in 2020, he has since served as the associate vice president and executive director of Texas A&M University and the Bush School of Government & Public Service. He also implemented an accessibility initiative granting four years of free tuition for state residents with family incomes less than $67,100.

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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. Mary Dana Hinton believes she’s earned the right to be an optimist.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 3, 2023

The department wrote a Dear Colleague letter in February that said any entity involved with the administration of an institution’s federal student aid is considered a third-party servicer, which puts them under the department’s oversight authority and subjects the companies’ contracts with institutions to regular audits.

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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.

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University Business

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The False Claims Act (“FCA”) is a unique fraud-fighting statute, which lets ordinary citizens step into the shoes of the government to recover fraudulent gains. 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.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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. Its mission is to help underfunded schools navigate the often complex research and contracting processes necessary to win federal funding.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

.” 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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

The district court compared the actions in the state to events depicted in George Orwell’s novel 1984 , and rejected the Florida public higher education governing board’s “positively dystopian” argument that professors possessed academic freedom only as long as they expressed viewpoints approved by the state.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

The University of Rochester, with help from the city and four local lending institutions, announced earlier this month it will grant qualifying full- and part-time employees, residents and fellows a $20,000 forgivable loan toward their first home purchase. million in financial assistance, per a university press release.

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University Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Public and private colleges and universities have long enjoyed independence from federal governing bodies over the nature of their operations. For example, the report suggested that the Department analyze all China- and Hong Kong-origin gifts and contracts received by U.S. China relations Back in November, the U.S.-China

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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’.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I was a member of the first cohort of school-leavers expected to take out the government loans to pay the then new £9000 university fees in 2012-13. In 1962 a mandatory grant was introduced to pay for the education of ‘all those qualified by ability and attainment and who wished to do so’, in the words of the Robbins Report (1963).

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SRHE

JULY 15, 2022

Maria Slowey took charge of the annual conference and immediately started work on the quality and quantity of submissions, while Rosemary Deem began the process of restoring SRHE’s finances by negotiating a new contract with long-term publishing partner Taylor & Francis. Email rob.cuthbert@uwe.ac.uk , Twitter @RobCuthbert.

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Higher Education Inquirer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Government Support: In some cases, elite universities received government support, such as grants or contracts, to help them weather the economic downturn. Faculty Salaries: Some universities had to reduce faculty salaries or even lay off staff to cut costs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By 2032, according to a new report from Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics in partnership with CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen), college sports revenue, including college football playoff revenue and new lucrative conference media contracts, is projected to reach $16 billion annually for 54 schools with the most lucrative football programs.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2023

This can be accomplished by addressing ineffective presidential onboarding processes and shared governance best practices , among others. Shared governance in consultation with representative bodies must be respected. The community must have demonstrated respect, trust, confidence, and commitment to consultation and shared governance.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 16, 2018

They point to State College of Florida, which ended tenure for incoming faculty several years ago and now is giving new professors annual contracts. Our next blog will look at the trends that are emerging in relation to the facultys role in strategy, curriculum development, and governance. That trend has continued.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This significantly diminishes effective board governance. Similarly, at Chapel Hill, the board declined to grant tenure to a highly distinguished journalist. This can be included in the buyout clause when creating the compensation contract. Board dysfunction significantly contributes to the issue of presidential turnover.

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Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A Whole New World: Disability Laws at the Post-Secondary Level One of the biggest issues facing students with learning challenges and their families is the difference in laws that govern schools that service K-12 versus schools at the post-secondary level. Fewer than 100 schools fall into this category.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Dr. Kirwan is the past chair of, among other boards, the American Council for Higher Education, the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, the American Association of Colleges & Universities, the Business Higher Education Forum, and the National Research Council Board on Higher Education and Workforce.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them. I was a physics major undergraduate and ended up getting into board governance. The federal government alone uses dozens of definitions. Drumm McNaughton 03:36 That’s fascinating.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Funding opportunities and grant support may be harder to come by or mainly restricted to nationals of the country. An expatriate might receive instead an end-of-contract lump-sum gratuity payment, the size of which may vary depending on final salary and years of service. Retirement planning will look different.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

This analogy highlighted the disparity between the rights and opportunities granted to white Americans and the ongoing systemic oppression faced by Black Americans. Other jobs were opened through contracts for black products and black service providers.” These jobs were added across all employment classifications.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton , the host of Changing Higher Ed ® , is a consultant to higher ed institutions in governance, accreditation, strategy and change , and mergers. and reduced grants by about $0.20 Are they ensuring that there are other revenue streams whereby the school can contract and go along the way?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And with efforts to pass a short-term spending bill that will keep government funding alive through October 31 appearing unfruitful, a federal government shutdown next week appears imminent. 1,” said John Fansmith, senior vice president of government relations at the American Council on Education, in its Sept. 21 podcast.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2024

Phill on LinkedIn → About the Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton , host of Changing Higher Ed ® podcast, is a consultant to higher education institutions in governance, accreditation, strategy and change, and mergers. Technology, governance the same way. So be willing to break down silos that you used to take for granted.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 31, 2023

“What is typically in most presidential contracts is that when they complete their contract, should they want to stay at the university, they will become a full professor in a department to be determined,” Wilde said. “But in my experience, none of those are going into a contract.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2023

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. He returned to New York City government as Assistant City Administrator and Director of University Relations. It provides grants and loans to students.

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SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

The year-long pantomime that was government in 2022 started trying to be managerial and serious, just as the true pantomime season got into full swing and TV started showing the usual repeats specials. Jack lived in desperately poor circumstances with his departmental colleagues, until one day all he had left was one research grant.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

One of his first actions as president was denying tenure to five faculty members and denying the contract renewal of a visiting professor who had been critical of the college takeover. Richard Corcoran, the new president, is the former Republican speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

But the contract was ratified with a split vote , with only about 62 percent of teaching assistants and 68 percent of graduate student researchers supporting the deal, compared to a 98 percent vote earlier in the fall in favor of striking. New contracts take time to implement. and South Africa. It behooves the university to listen.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

For one thing, he objected to its tradition of endorsing a candidate for student government president—a tradition shared by a significant but dwindling number of traditional news outlets—arguing that it is not “fair” to use a media platform to “influence students.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 27, 2025

We realize that, while we address extensively institutional changes and policies at Purdue, Indianas Land Grant University, our interest is in using this case study to illustrate larger patterns and issues that should be of concern to readers who care about the future of higher education in a broader sense.

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