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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What Murray Sperber described in his bestseller Beer and Circus in 2001 is every bit as true today: the academic enterprise is decentered, and the quality of housing amenities, the robustness of student life programming, and the quality of an institution’s athletic teams are primary drivers of undergraduate enrollment. Dr. Adriel A.

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How Academic Advising Impacts the Question: Are You Coming Back Next Semester?

Faculty Focus

Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. Advising services in higher education assist first-year students to choose courses and appropriately schedule them, help select a major, and plan a future career.

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How Academic Advising Impacts the Question: Are You Coming Back Next Semester?

Faculty Focus

Light (2001) states, “It is hard to imagine any academic support function that is more important to student success and institutional productivity than advising” (p. Advising services in higher education assist first-year students to choose courses and appropriately schedule them, help select a major, and plan a future career.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

embraces a range of modes of ‘exchange’: partnerships involving collaborative research; contract research; consultancy; working with business; ‘continuing professional development’; intellectual property and its commercialisation; public and community engagement; local growth and regeneration, some but not all having a defined ‘research’ element.

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$16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 171 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

The Change Leader, Inc.

Perko graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1987 with a degree in history. In 2001, she was the first Team President named by the National Basketball Association (NBA) for one of its men’s basketball development teams, the Fayetteville Patriots. She was honored as an ACC Legend in 2005. Thanks again for listening.

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