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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

Annual volume of private loans skyrocketed, from $5B in 2001 to over $20B in 2008, when 14 percent of all undergraduates had one. For-profit colleges, the engine for much of this bad debt, did get scrutiny, and from 2010 to 2023, their presence was reduced. These loans continue to be serviced by the private lenders that issued them.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Magazine Profiles Top “40 and Under” Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has remained one of the magazine’s most popular editions since its inception. Diverse editors select honorees from a pool of candidates recommended by various scholars, department chairs, university public information officers, and others.

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Highlights from Higher Ed: Data-Based Decisions, High Salary Expectations, Hispanic Enrollment, and Cyber Attacks

Liaison International

“Although about 97% of students would consider lowering salary expectations, they wouldn’t work for less than, on average, $72,580 at their first job…High-paying fields, such as engineering, math, or computer science, will pay nearly the same or lower than last year.” million in 2001, according to a new report from the U.S.

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Academic Freedom, Tenure & the U.S. Higher Education System

GlobalHigherEd

since 2001, often engenders a drive to compare. David Warsh ) note is inevitable, but defacto functions as ‘engines’ for regional and national economies.

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Have the Higher Education & Research Act and the Office for Students delivered for new and ‘challenger’ providers?

HEPI

In the press release accompanying the White Paper, Jo Johnson said: Our universities are engines of economic growth and social mobility, but if we are to remain competitive and ensure that a high-quality education remains open to all, we cannot stand still.

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Free higher education in Syria and inequalities

SRHE

I analysed the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) database for 15 academic years, from 2001 to 2015. This trend of unequal access to specialisations applies to numerous disciplines ( eg Pharmacy, Dentistry, Medicine, Arts, IT, Mechanical Engineering, and Architecture).