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Harvard Biological Engineering Institute Receives $350M Gift

Inside Higher Ed

Wyss, a graduate of Harvard Business School, donated $125 million to establish the institute in 2009. In the spring of 2023, the 375 full-time employees will move to a new headquarters in Boston near Harvard Medical School. Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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The Research Excellence Framework: UK Higher Education’s great export

HEPI

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Hugh McKenna CBE, Dean of Medical School Development at Ulster University; and Roger Watson , Honourary Professor of Nursing at the University of Hull. In 2009, the UK imported the Australian model, down to its use of impact case studies.

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

As UIC’s interim chancellor, Dr. Reyes heads Chicago’s largest university with 16 academic colleges and one of the nation’s largest medical schools. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one for a 2009 series of Inside Higher Ed articles on college rankings.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.) Leeds Trinity University had powers to award taught degrees from 2009 and became a University in 2012. King’s College London gained its royal charter in 1829, but that did not include powers for it to grant degrees.

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Higher ed must change or die (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Temple University is a public, R-1 research university in a major East Coast city with a medical school and health system. I am the president of Pennsylvania’s second-largest institution of higher education. Our research portfolio has more than tripled in the last decade. That has not been the case as of late.

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