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

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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Two former scientists at Cornell University used made-up data in 12 different scientific papers published between 2008 and 2016, according to new reports by the federal Office of Research Integrity.

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

In 2013, Harvard Business School professors Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn made a striking prediction in the New York Times , forecasting that a host of struggling colleges and universities the bottom 25 percent of every tier, we predict will disappear or merge in the next 10 to 15 years. Monetizing assets through innovation hubs.

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University Business

JANUARY 29, 2025

While most California college students attend a public college or university, roughly 160,000 undergraduates pursue degrees at private nonprofit universities such as Chapman University, Loyola Marymount University, Stanford and the University of Southern California. Read more at CalMatters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

In 2008, the Lumina Foundation, a national private foundation focused on higher education and workforce development, set a national attainment goal that by 2025 60% of working-age adults would earn college degrees, certificates or industry-recognized certifications.

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Academe Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It began with the heartbreaking story of Randy Pausch, who was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. That became a book in 2008… BY MATTHEW BOEDY You may remember several years ago a phenomenon called “the last lecture.” He was diagnosed with cancer and literally gave his last lecture in September 2007.

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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. He noted that since 2008, some universities had mulled creating a discipline for inspection and supervision.

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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. His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University. Everyone didn’t feel that way.”

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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

High-risk gambling wasn’t on Amaura Kemmerer’s radar in 2008 when worked at Northeastern University’s wellness center. “We are at the tip of the iceberg, and we will see more social ramifications start to bubble up,” says Greg Bouris, assistant teaching professor of sports management at Adelphi University.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 13, 2025

Although the book was an exceptional chronicle of the student loan industry from 1958 to 2013, it missed at least one key event, the 2008-2010 bailout of Sallie Mae and a number of banks who made questionable private loans guaranteed by the US government. How commonplace this student loan grift was has not been adequately explored.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

For-profit DeVry University is suing the U.S. million that were approved in February after the department found that DeVry advertised false job-placement rates from 2008 to 2015. million that were approved in February after the department found that DeVry advertised false job-placement rates from 2008 to 2015.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Since taking the helm of IHEP in 2008, Cooper’s been out front influencing national education policy. Cooper earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of Charleston, a master’s in professional studies from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

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. She is the first foreign-born president of the university and the second woman to hold the position.

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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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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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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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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

million people started postsecondary education in the fall of 2016, but the six-year completion rates for first-time students dropped for the first time in recent years among public and private four-year colleges and universities. The gender gap in completion rates is steadily growing and is the widest seen since 2008. More than 2.4

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Eliminating diversity gaps in the real estate profession is the focus of long-standing and new pathway programs at a number of colleges and universities. Andy Hunt Andy Hunt, Vieth Director for the Center for Real Estate at Marquette University, says the long-term goal of the program is to diversify real estate networks.

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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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SRHE

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Research by Danielsson and Bodin (2008) further supports the idea that private and agile office environments contribute to better emotional health, largely due to the sense of control they afford employees. Nic Kipar leads the Academic and Digital Development team at the University of Glasgow. Personal communication to Kipar, N.,

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 18, 2025

Weingarten has been the President of AFT since 2008, a union with about 1.7 There are many people in edtech that Weingarten should criticize at the summit. But she is too much of a politician to do such a thing when it is needed. million members across the US. They refused.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Lumina Foundation has monitored local, state and national college attainment rates since 2008. ” The post Huge college attainment growth missed one group’s big goal appeared first on University Business. As of 2023, the rate of adults with a postsecondary credential has increased to 54.9%, a 17-percentage point bump.

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The PIE News

JULY 9, 2024

The number of overseas students in the country has grown steadily, the report noted, with previous iterations published in 2008, 2010, 2014, 2015 and 2016 all tracking consistent increases.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

” The vote was taken in response to an application question that North Carolina State University introduced in 2021, which asked applicants to affirm their commitment to “building a just and inclusive community.” ” N.C. State removed that question a few days before the board’s vote.

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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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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2022

More from UB : Higher ed costs haven’t been this high since 2008, analysis finds. The post Holiday stress: 7 reasons students don’t feel merry and bright about winter break appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, president emeritus of the University of Maryland Baltimore County, aptly says, “By understanding human behavior and our values, we develop a moral compass that can guide our decision-making. This article serves as both a personal narrative and a broader examination of the evolving landscape of higher education.

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