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Should African Americans Trust the College Board with African American Studies?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The gap between exam scores among different racial groups has grown since 2003, highlighting a lack of resources and support for some student populations. Studies have uncovered various systemic factors that continue to impede equitable access to AP classes. Fair assessment is essential to achieving true education equity.

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From 1998 to 2003, Floyd served the university before going on to lead the University of Missouri and Washington State University. Floyd Hall—home to the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences facility— named in honor of the school’s sixth and first African American president to lead WMU.

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WEEKEND READING: The next 20 years – rediscovering the social purpose of higher education

HEPI

As we navigate these ‘in-between times’, we can forget the extraordinary impact that higher education, as a sector, and HEPI, as a think tank, has had over the last 20 years (as Bahram Bekhradnia and Roger Brown recount). 2 During that time, UK universities have grown from graduating almost 600,000 people in 2003, to over 900,000 in 2022.

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The Future of Public Funding in Higher Education: The Changing Face of Higher Ed Part 6

The Change Leader, Inc.

2003, the average cost of college increased 14 percent in one year. Respondents were closely split (43 percent strongly agreed/somewhat agreed vs. 39 percent strongly disagreed/somewhat disagreed) on whether the state government was having a positive impact on the higher education system. So what does that look like?

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

SRHE

Large issues remain unexplored, for example: In the UK does the separation at government level of research management from the management of the rest of higher education benefit the government’s innovation agenda more than it dislocates the higher education system?

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

Welch became the seventh president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) on January 15, 2024 after serving nearly 13 years as president of the Arkansas State University System, the state’s second largest higher education system.

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Honoring the Promise of Higher Ed

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

She defined the challenge this way: “The biggest task facing us in higher education is to break out of our elitist framework. We do not provide access to the majority of people in this country, and we are still the most powerfully impactful higher education system in the world.