Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Fostering student success may be highly individualized, but there are four universal practices that might yield successful student outcomes. Communication Effective communication between university faculty and students is fundamental for enhancing academic success, student engagement, mental health, and trust.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In HEPI’s 20th Anniversary Collection , Dr Mark Corver, Managing Director and co-founder of dataHE , set out the status quo of university funding. The funding system for undergraduate teaching in UK universities has drifted into crisis. ’ This extended piece is his vision for what that resetting may look like.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Government’s underestimation of inflation has eroded teaching resources, according to thinktank University students in England are seeing less spent on their education than at any time since their tuition fees were tripled in 2012, according to new analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Continue reading.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 21, 2024

by Maria-Ligia Barbosa In Latin America, higher education has undergone intense transformation. million in 1990, 25 million students in 2011, and 30 million in 2019. In Argentina and Uruguay, the demand for higher education was met by the public sector. million, reaching 8.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

Colleges and universities across the country are preparing to celebrate the legacy of a civil rights icon who championed integration and transformed Americas Rev. Seton Hall University in New Jersey, decided to revamp their annual MLK program a few years ago, citing the need for change amid a challenging political climate.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If this is a tenet of the Conservative approach to education, then one might assume the lengthy period of Conservative-led governments since 2010 would have ushered in a more diverse higher education sector by stimulating more independent provision. Yet today there are only 422 registered providers.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. For students continuing to graduate school, the writing stakes are even higher. Nadia Moraglio, MA, is a writing specialist at the Writing Skills Improvement Program (WSIP) at the University of Arizona. Journal of Geography in Higher Education , 27 (2), 169–181.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. There are always interesting ‘moments’ in the relationship between incoming governments and universities. In Scotland, we had similar moments, especially after the 2011 Scottish Parliamentary elections.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down. Chances are closings will continue to uptick as higher education braces for the expected demographic cliff. Centuries of serving higher education erased. Pierce College (Penn.)

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Public higher education appropriations rose nearly 4% beyond inflation last year, according to the State Higher Education Finance’s annual report. Perhaps more relevant to higher ed leaders, fiscal year 2023 saw the largest decline in tuition revenue since SHEF began tracking such data in 1980.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

Moreover, given the current socio-political era of anti-DEI, faculty and other university personnel have been losing funding, positions, and operational units that support research and programming that help the most vulnerable student populations to thrive and attain optimal outcomes in higher education and in their personal lives.

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HEPI

MAY 11, 2025

He was previously the Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University. The higher education sector had high hopes of a new government last July. The Guardian quoted Peter Kyle, the Science Secretary, declaring an end to the war on universities. There are eerie echoes of headlines and comments under the last government.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Baroness Blackstone was Minister for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, and has led two universities: Birkbeck, from 1987 to 1997, and the University of Greenwich, from 2004 to 2011. The policy paper outlines how realigning with this good practice could help retain international trust in UK higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Guskiewicz will become the next president of Michigan State University, effective Mar. Guskiewicz Guskiewicz – a neuroscientist, sports medicine researcher, and academic leader – is currently chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jackson, dean of the MSU College of Education and search committee member.

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Changing Higher Education

AUGUST 31, 2016

A college or university that does research ends up spending considerable resources of its own even when most of its research is “funded”. Medical schools are organized and financed very differently from the rest of the university; conclusions drawn from these overall numbers should therefore be understood with that caveat. “I

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HEPI

JUNE 6, 2023

On the website of nearly every university, you will find an explanation that the institution is a charity. And why are universities not generally talked about as charities, in the same way as, say, Oxfam or Macmillan Cancer Support? Of course, the fundamental question is whether all our not-for-profit universities are charities at all.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 6, 2025

May 6, 2025 · Episode 258 Strategic Affiliation in Higher Education: What Colleges Can Learn from the Colleges of Law and TCS Education System 32 Min · By The Change Leader, Inc. Strategic affiliation in higher education offers small colleges a sustainable alternative to mergers.

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GlobalHigherEd

JULY 14, 2016

Post-EU Referendum turmoil in the UK (and the EU) continues, for all sorts of reasons, but soon more serious and sustained assessment of the post-Brexit landscape for UK universities will occur. In such a context here is the question to consider: is an Oxbridge-Lille (a joint Cambridge-Oxford university) or equivalent (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In May 2011, Dr. Cheryl Davenport Dozier stepped in as Savannah State University’s interim president. But as for her new path in higher education, Dozier said during a 2011 news briefing: “I’ve been charged to come down and lead and that’s what I’ll do.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlighted the confusion that such messaging creates when, after their board of governors instituted a DEI ban, university officials voted to divert $2.3 million of previously designated funding to campus police instead.

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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. Public institutions received an average of $11,040 in education appropriations per full-time equivalent enrollment in 2023.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

This page will be continuously updated as University Business monitors the changing landscape of college closings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the coming year and beyond. Centuries of serving higher education erased. The system will downsize to 22 universities. (Updated: Feb. Pierce College (Penn.)

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

by Ariane de Gayardon Since the 1980s, massification, policy shifts, and changing ideas about who benefits from higher education have led to the expansion of national student loan schemes globally. Their parents took out student loans to pay for their own higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics at Howard University. Walters Endowed Chair and we are pleased to welcome her to Howard University.” The well-known political figure was a state representative in the Georgia General Assembly, having served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives 2011-2017.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Tej Nathwani, Principal Researcher (Economist) at HESA, the Higher Education Statistics Agency. For the sector, the question this has raised is; How might (higher) education play a role in helping to tackle the twin challenge of poor productivity and high inequality?

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The PIE News

MARCH 5, 2024

During a recruitment webinar hosted by the International Education Association of Australia on 29 February , attendees heard that visa approval rates – at their lowest levels since 2011 – could cost the sector up to $310 million in revenue. For level 2 and 3 universities, he said the rate is 15% and above.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

American higher education is in trouble. College enrollments last year were lower than they were 12 years earlier in 2011, the first sustained drop in American history — and low birth rates suggest the pool of future college students may fall rather than increase. Read more at Deseret.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

The Education Department announced last month that it would revisit nearly three decades of policy making under Title IV of the Higher Education Act that has largely restricted colleges from paying recruiters based on how many students they enroll. OPMs inject for-profit practices and incentives into nonprofit higher education.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. With Oxford and Cambridge as its book-ends, the ARC includes Cranfield University, the University of Buckingham, Buckinghamshire New University, and the Open University, all clustered in or near Milton Keynes.[1]

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries. But we need to look closer at the data.

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SRHE

MARCH 19, 2025

Rachel Reeds short but comprehensive book, Surviving and Thriving in Higher Education Professional Services: a guide to success (Routledge, 2025), is both an instruction manual for the professionals it was written for and an illuminating account of what they do for the academics and students who benefit.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Bryan Alexander's Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis is among the most anticipated books of the coming year. While we wait for the March 28th, 2023 release date of Bryan's book, we can keep having the conversation (that Bryan is leading) on higher ed and climate change.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

German universities can expect international first-year students to offset stagnating or even further declining numbers of first semester German students by 2026, new analysis has suggested. The development of total first-year students at German universities since the 2011/12 peak.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2024

James White James White has been appointed vice president of governmental affairs and civic engagement at Texas Southern University. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2011 until 2022, representing District 19.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Dr. Paul Sniegowski, a biologist and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has served as President since August 2024. This dual-degree approach combines the benefits of a liberal arts education with technical training, preparing students for careers in engineering, business, and technology fields.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Giving feedback in university courses allows for the provision of supportive ideas for improvement, elaboration, and/or heightened thinking as students prepare for job factors outside of their university preparation. Feedback Literacy. Student will process feedback information and student acknowledges and works with emotions.

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