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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most anticipated annual issues each January is the Emerging Scholars edition that features outstanding scholars of color breaking new ground in research, applying scholarship to public policy and grooming the next generation of leaders and professionals. White House Honoree, Jan. Remembering and rendering lives.

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Why production cost and resentment is rising (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The history of these closely related developments over the past 150 years is explained in our forthcoming book , Wealth, Cost and Price in American Higher Education: A Brief History (Johns Hopkins University Press). The remainder has been paid by subsidies from gifts, grants, contracts, endowment income, and government appropriations.

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Carnegie Mellon–Africa receives $275M investment

Inside Higher Ed

The MasterCard Foundation—whose work is focused on empowering youth in Africa and Canada’s Indigenous populations— began funding scholarships for CMU-Africa in 2016 and has been involved with the institution ever since. As of now there are seven universities participating in the program; CMU hopes to grow that to 10.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. By the time they get to the CCST, we’ve had a six-year history with the student,” Palacios says. “We The transfer rate is 85% for students within three years of admission to EPW.

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The State of Public Trust in Higher Education: Insights from Gallup-Lumina Foundation: Changing Higher Ed® podcast 255 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Courtney Brown

The Change Leader, Inc.

And since 2008, we’ve really been focused on increasing attainment for all Americans in the US. Well, one of the things we don’t do is we don’t provide scholarships. History degree , a lot of times is going in and memorizing dates, what happened, et cetera. Lumina’s been around since 2000.

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Want a job at Cambridge?

SRHE

In a case in May 2008 it was held that the University of Aberdeen had been in breach of the Fixed Term Employees (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2002 where that had been relied on, but there seems to have been no subsequent litigation helping to establish a precedent.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Teaching-only’, ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ and ‘Teaching-focussed’ academic jobs have become increasingly common.