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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Students receiving Pell grants have graduation rates 21 percentage points lower than students who are not Pell-eligible. Common recommendations included improved advising services, guided pathways for students, and proactive, targeted financial aid and completion grants. It is time for transformative system change.

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Myth 2: States aren’t investing in higher ed Three 2024 reports reveal how federal and state higher ed funding increased in recent years: State Higher Education Finance (“ Trends in State, Local, Student, and Grant Shares of Education Revenues “) : Public higher education appropriations rose nearly 4% beyond inflation in 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Sadly, I found some of these spaces to be platforms for presidents to brag about their contracts, trade horror stories of the college presidency, bash members of their college community, compare and compete with their colleagues, and politically posture themselves for acceptance into exclusive groups or the next available career opportunity.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 5, 2025

The cuts include "asset sales, contract/lease cancellations and renegotiations, fraud and improper payment deletion, grant cancellations, interest savings, programmatic changes, regulatory savings, and workforce reductions." Here's a current list of Department of Education contracts cut by DOGE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

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. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants. Dr. Stella Perez is CEO of Next Level Consulting, a contract firm focused on higher ed accreditation, state/federal compliance, and competency-based education.

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Community College Grants and Contracts Social Justice Food 258

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

No Pell Grants. Additionally, faculty and staff can advise undocumented students on alternative career pathways that they may not have considered such as independent contracting and starting a business, both of which can be done with only an individual tax ID number. No student loans. No Federal work study.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 30, 2025

Adding to its woes, NewSchool is currently embroiled in two major lawsuits over unpaid rent and contract breaches. The second lawsuit, filed on September 6, 2024, also by Art Block Investors, LLC, alleges breach of contract and guaranty against both NewSchool and Ambow Education Holdings Ltd., seeking $4.47

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Details on the agreements will be available once the contracts are ratified.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 6, 2023

“The board’s majority has wrongfully locked its captain in the brig while steering NIC toward an iceberg,” State Judge Cynthia Meyer wrote in granting a preliminary injunction to Swayne. However, the court found that nothing in South’s contract demonstrates that NIC intended him be an interim placement.

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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.

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Veteran and Military Services Banking DEI Grants and Contracts 246

University Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

Students who graduated from USC with a graduate certificate in 2000 onward were positive they’d be recognized as USCAA members and granted access to its exclusive perks. Harvard Business School’s website specifically designates which programs, certificates and degrees grant alumni status and which don’t.

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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

Wetstein attracted $14 million in federal grants and grew Cabrillo’s endowment by almost $30 million, Press Banner reports. The news comes as a shock to some campus community members since the five-year president had signed a contract extension through 2028, 3 News reports.

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants). Upon closer inspection, time is not saved at all, especially for those in precarious temporary contracts, or with student loans, or who need a promotion, or on scholarship deadlines.

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SRHE

JANUARY 22, 2025

we acknowledge that invisible and emotional labour can affect any academic of any gender, particularly those on education/ teaching focussed contracts. These are often taken for granted and operate at a subconscious level. Using this framework our findings are categorised accordingly to these elements outlined in Figure 1 below.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. On the first day of class, many faculty will dedicate time to going over the course syllabus. She is part of the national leadership team for the Student Experience Project.

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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%

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SRHE

JANUARY 18, 2023

Best of all, Cinderella’s pay rags turn into a shimmering and apparently permanent contract, and her glass ceiling is transformed into slippers. Jack lived in desperately poor circumstances with his departmental colleagues, until one day all he had left was one research grant. So the prince decides to leave her asleep.

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University Business

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Any program, contract or grant involving government dollars can fall under the FCA. Though healthcare fraud is the largest type of FCA fraud, this article focuses on non-healthcare fraud in higher education: research and grant fraud, unlawful recruiting, failure to disclose ties to foreign governments, and cybersecurity failure fraud.

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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

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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

.” Colleges and universities distributed over $160 billion in grant aid to undergraduate and graduate students in the 2023-24 academic year. Since 2013-14, institutional grant aid for all students rose by $19.6 Since 2013-14, institutional grant aid for all students rose by $19.6 billion (in 2023 dollars), reaching $82.8

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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

China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) issued a report to Congress that recommended amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965, granting Congress and federal agencies deeper oversight of how U.S. For example, the report suggested that the Department analyze all China- and Hong Kong-origin gifts and contracts received by U.S.

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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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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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Libraries Electronics Grants and Contracts Research 103

SRHE

JULY 16, 2024

Several reported that they had benefited from ‘lucky’ relationships with doctoral supervisors or senior colleagues that had helped them to progress through short-term contracts or secure a permanent role. This study was kindly funded through a British Academy and Leverhulme Trust Small Grant.

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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. During Pollack’s presidency, the university created the Cornell Jeb E.

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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.

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Higher Ed Connects: News

AUGUST 23, 2019

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.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It could also renegotiate its contracts, reduce staffing, and sell off various assets to continue operating. It may also be able to increase revenues through increased enrollment and grants. South could seek another lender to pay off the Main Street Loan.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

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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Teaching Matters Online Learning

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For one, we do not prohibit the academic study of leisure, especially if it attracts big grants). Upon closer inspection, time is not saved at all, especially for those in precarious temporary contracts, or with student loans, or who need a promotion, or on scholarship deadlines.

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