The PIE News

JANUARY 3, 2025

When Al Tarzi founded Nexford University in 2019, he was an entrepreneur in an unfamiliar sector with a vision of making international higher education more affordable, more accessible and more aligned with the workplace. Today, it offers US-accredited online degrees to over 5,000 students in more than 100 countries.

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HEPI

JANUARY 24, 2024

T his HEPI blog was authored by Vivienne Stern, Chief Executive of Universities UK, as an adaption of a speech she gave in response to a lecture by the Hon. Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams’s parents had met during their time at Southern and A&M College, a historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They shared their convictions with their two sons, including the importance of education and social service. “I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In his six years as PASSHE chancellor, Dan Greenstein took a bold—and sometimes controversial—approach to repairing a public university system in a downward spiral. When the Great Recession hit the University of California system in 2008, it marked a major “inflection point” in the life of Dan Greenstein. Did it work?

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Higher Education Inquirer

JUNE 29, 2023

The History of Higher Education in the US over the last 4 centuries is worse than horrible--from a People's perspective. At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond. In many cases it has been horrifying.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This is the case in politics, but it’s also true in higher education. Shifts in demography, the economy and cultural values have far greater influence than the stories that dot the higher ed press. What were the most important events in higher education in 2022? How about the defunding of higher education?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

April 15, 2025 · Episode 255 The State of Public Trust in Higher Education: Insights from Gallup-Lumina Foundation 33 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. GallupLumina data shows why trust in higher ed is decliningand what colleges must do to regain credibility, relevance, and workforce alignment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? Daniels Of course, I was not reading academic journals and higher education publications then. Over the years, I’ve observed at least seven (7) best practices in Diverse: Issues In Higher Education that other media outlets might be well-served to emulate: 1.

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HEPI

APRIL 4, 2023

On 22 June 2023, John Cater will complete three decades as the Director and Vice-Chancellor of Edge Hill University, rendering him the longest-serving head of a higher education institution in the UK. HEPI is marking the occasion by publishing his thoughts on higher education in 2030. How far could this go?

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HEPI

JANUARY 18, 2025

These are the remarks by Alison Payne, Research Director at Reform Scotland, at the HEPI / CDBU event on funding higher education, held at Birkbeck, University of London, on Thursday of this week. The graduate endowment was then scrapped by the SNP in February 2008.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

of Pennsylvania at 2008’s commencement Amy Gutmann earned nearly $23 million in 2021, her last full year as president of the University of Pennsylvania, according to federal tax filings. By Julia Piper and Nick Perez Matt Rourke, AP Amy Gutmann as president of the U.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The University endowment stands at a value of $35.8 University investments generated a loss of 1.5 percent, the lowest investment return since the Great Recession of 2008. University investments generated a loss of 1.5 percent, the lowest investment return since the Great Recession of 2008. billion endowment.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Image: As numerous Chinese universities launch anticorruption majors, scholars have questioned whether the courses are the most effective way of producing public sector employees with the desired skills. Academics speaking to Times Higher Education agreed on China’s need for more skilled graduates to root out administrative misconduct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Castillo has been named the Acting President of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, effective immediately. Castillo, who has served as the Vice President for Finance and Administration at TAMIU since 2008, will oversee the university’s operations following the unexpected passing of President Pablo Arenaz.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

Higher ed funding, particularly at the state level, is not going in the direction one might expect at public colleges and universities a few years after the economic turmoil of the COVID pandemic. And neither is enrollment, according to a new analysis that also examines appropriations through the lens of the Great Recession of 2008.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 13, 2025

We also find critical historical analysis essential when we think about US higher education and student loan debt from a People's perspective. Annual volume of private loans skyrocketed, from $5B in 2001 to over $20B in 2008, when 14 percent of all undergraduates had one.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

More than half of all working-class Americans hold a college degree or credential beyond high school, according to a new report from the Lumina Foundation, a higher education advocacy group. Lumina Foundation has monitored local, state and national college attainment rates since 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. It was there that I first understood the profound impact that education could have on a person’s life.

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The PIE News

APRIL 15, 2024

The Greek parliament narrowly passed a bill last month allowing overseas universities to establish branch campuses in the country, despite weeks of protests from students opposing the bill. Greek students who didn’t enrol in state universities were obliged to pursue study abroad. Today more than 40,000 Greeks study abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

based Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP), one of the nation’s premiere education research and policy centers, Dr. Michelle Asha Cooper has a vision. Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The year: 2008. During our post-mortem, we realized that the political rhetoric surrounding the 2008 presidential race had hijacked our discussion. Our focus on truth-digging also inspired me to examine the role Obama’s Muslim-sounding middle name played in the 2008 election. I was teaching undergraduates in the Deep South.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Renu Khator’s noted place in American higher education is about diversity and begins with the numbers. Khator, a scholar in the field of global environmental policy, is the eighth chancellor of the University of Houston System and the 13 th president of the University of Houston , dual titles she’s held since January 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2023

Lumina, a private nonprofit working to increase learning opportunities for all after high school, has been tracking credential and degree attainment for adults from 25 to 64 years of age since 2008. In 2008, only one state had set a degree or certificate attainment goal for its own population: Hawaii.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2023

colleges and universities rose 4 percent in fiscal year 2023, according to data from the annual Commonfund Higher Education Price Index released Wednesday. It’s the second-highest rate of inflation since fiscal year 2008, when the HEPI was at 5 percent. Inflation for U.S.

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HEPI

MARCH 13, 2024

On University Mental Health Day, we are delighted to publish this blog from Dr. Rachel Spacey, Policy and Engagement Officer, and Sam Gamblin, Charity Manager, at the University Mental Health Advisers Network ( UMHAN – LinkedIn ). To learn more, see the hashtags #UniMentalHealthDay and #IChoseToDisclose.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 19, 2023

US higher education enrollment has been declining slowly and consistently since 2011. The declines have been small enough for many people outside of higher education to miss this phenomenon. In 2026 and 2027 we expect a more significant drop: a result of declining fertility rates during the 2008-2009 recession.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Sophia Rosing, 22, the white University of Kentucky (UK) senior caught on video assaulting Black students will voluntarily withdraw from the school, her lawyer said Nov. 8, NBC News reported. The video ends with a white male police officer handcuffing Rosing as she continues to repeat the racial slur and struggles to remain standing.

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University Business

AUGUST 18, 2023

Illinois universities have seen an 11% drop in per-student spending in the past decade and a half. One of the largest contributing factors is the rapidly increasing cost of university pension payments. Back in 2009, only 14 cents of every higher education dollar went toward faculty pensions.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In a recent survey of most trusted institutions, higher ed ranked fourth behind small business, the military and the police, and ahead of organized religion and public schools. Feelings about higher education are driven by politics. Better think again appeared first on University Business.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teachers who are burned out also provide a lower quality of instruction than their counterparts (Klusmann, Kunter, Trautwein, Ludtke, & Baumert, 2008; Pyhältö et al., Burnout is defined as fatigue, frustration, or apathy resulting from prolonged stress, overwork, or intense activity (Webster’s Universal College Dictionary, 2004).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

A person with a growth mindset views one’s position, intelligence, talents, and abilities as being controllable and learnable; a person with a fixed mindset views such traits as being unchangeable (Dweck 2008). Dweck (2008) notes that outcomes are all that matter to students with a fixed mindset. New York: Ballantine, 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt. This allows us to enroll those students.

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SRHE

JANUARY 13, 2023

What does it mean to feel ‘safe’ within the higher education classroom? Within UK universities, safe space is also explored in the context of addressing sexual violence, harassment and discrimination (see: Anker and Von der Lippe, 2018; Uksaysnomore.org, 2022 ).

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The PIE News

JULY 19, 2023

Chief executive Catriona Jackson welcomed the five immediate actions in the report, which will uncap places for all Indigenous students, remove barriers for students from underrepresented backgrounds and extend the Higher Education Continuity Guarantee.

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University Business

JUNE 8, 2023

Hawkins served from 2008 to 2020 on the Osceola County Commission. The post Legislator with no higher education experience tapped to lead South Florida State College appeared first on University Business. Fred Hawkins, R-St. Hawkins went on to get elected to the House in November 2020. Read more from the Tampa Bay Times.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The government of Australia has announced a ‘Universities Accord’ designed to build a long-term plan for the country’s higher education system. Minister for Education Jason Clare noted it is the “first broad review” of the system since the Bradley Review in 2008.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Tyler Cowen drove a lot of traffic to my piece critiquing his thinking on higher education. All it took was Cowen posting a two-sentence comment on Marginal Revolution : Joshua Kim comment on my higher education worries. The trend of state-level disinvestment from higher education is well-known.

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