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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.

P3 project that doubled the universitys capacity by delivering housing, classrooms, wellness centers, and campus infrastructure in a single expansion through a 39-year contract. Now the earlier I talked about these contract terms being anywhere from like eight to 15 years. billion, is a 39-year contract term.

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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.

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Essays in the Transformation of Higher Education (Dan Morris and Harry Targ)

Higher Education Inquirer

Chapter Five: Universities and War: Conclusion Appendix Introduction In the following pages, you are going to find a lot of specific information about what is happening at one major public research university, but we believe what is happening at Purdue is analogous to a canary in a coal mine.

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Higher Ed Cybersecurity, MOVEit Hack, and 3rd-Party Risk: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 163 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Brian Kelly

The Change Leader, Inc.

Institutions must annually vet employees granted access to information and ensure more people haven’t been granted access. A colleague of mine has a website that got hacked. Are you vetting the employees within your institution who are granted access to information? They can also contract with third parties.

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University autonomy and government control by funding

SRHE

These chiefly aim to fund research rather than teaching and include: grants and contracts for research projects; investment income; donations and endowments. Roome saw this (HC 4 November 2024) as meeting a need for ‘a viable and accessible option, particularly in rural areas such as mine, for people to access university courses?’

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Carl Barney, Ex-Owner of Deceptive For-Profit Colleges, Donates Big to Trump (David Halperin, Republic Report)

Higher Education Inquirer

Barney concludes his post with this unifying message, “If anyone sees something wrong with Making America Great Again (MAGA), then they’re not friends of mine, nor of yours.” That’s something I will have to confront.” Soon after, the U.S. Department of Education restricted the flow of such aid.