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Which Colleges Always Lose Money?

Robert Kelchen

Seventy-one private colleges never posted a loss during this period, and they are generally less-selective institutions such as Miles College in Alabama, Dordt University in Iowa, and the University of Northwestern in Minnesota (the better-known Northwestern in Illinois posted losses in three years when the stock market went down).

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Why It’s Imperative that Africa Study Abroad Opportunities Thrive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Beyond my own experience, research in the A cademy of Management Journal has highlighted that executives' foreign work opportunities “predicted the creativity ratings of their [work] collections” when evaluated for breadth, depth and cultural distance.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re going to produce — and it’s happening now — graduates in critical areas at the research level, at the workforce level, in ways that are meeting critical needs particularly of talent,” says Dr. Tonya L. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks. Katherine E.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At Dominican, adjunct faculty progress through a tiered promotion system based on “credit points,” where one-point equals one credit course unit, said Carol Aiono Tucker, faculty affairs and institutional research board process coordinator at Dominican.

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How toxic incentives are fueling an ‘epidemic’ of cheating in scholarly research

University Business

“Even though we have private universities, it’s really kind of a private-public entity with hundreds of billions of dollars tied up in it. .” “Even though we have private universities, it’s really kind of a private-public entity with hundreds of billions of dollars tied up in it.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver. Programs include the university’s “earn and learn,” which provides funding for off-campus internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning, and cohort programs that serve particular student groups. Edward’s University St.