Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, will offer free tuition following a $1 billion donation from its board chair — a gift the institution called the largest ever to an American medical school. The donor, Ruth Gottesman, is a former professor at the medical school and current member of the Montefiore board.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

From art colleges to medical schools, specialised higher education institutions are nothing new. Kaplan International Colleges, London, 2016. However, Kaplan Pathways’ latest partner, The Engineering & Design Institute London takes this concept a step further, offering just one subject — Global Design Engineering.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Still, she said, this year’s numbers are “definitely a strong positive,” building on a strong fiscal 2022, which already represented some of the largest boosts for state higher ed funding since the 2008 recession. percent to research, hospital expansion and medical schools, according to the SHEEO report.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

King’s College London gained its royal charter in 1829, but that did not include powers for it to grant degrees. University College London sought a royal charter in 1830, at first unsuccessfully, with the right to award degrees proving controversial. The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Francis Poussaint, whose tireless advocacy for diversity in medical education transformed Harvard Medical School and influenced generations of physicians from underrepresented backgrounds, died late last week. The Harlem-born psychiatrist was no stranger to the pages of Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2023

Community colleges failing to fulfill their mission. College students, like all too many older adults, find themselves enmeshed in a Durkheimian nightmare : without a “sense of common bond or shared identity, a void of powerful values, lives of bleak consumerism. It will change higher education forever. Grave threats to tenure.

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