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Weekend Reading: Fixing higher education funding should start with student loans

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We previously published chapters by David Willetts , Minister for Universities and Science from 2010 to 2014, Chloe Field , Vice President for Higher Education at the National Union of Students , and Jo Johnson , former Minister of State for Universities and Science (2015). University funding is not working.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

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by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike.

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Details Revealed for Roosevelt’s Annual American Dream Reconsidered Conference

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The three-day conference, founded in 2016 by RU President Ali Malekzadeh, creates an intentional space for authors, artists, and academics to reimagine “The American Dream” through a variety of perspectives. The post Details Revealed for Roosevelt’s Annual American Dream Reconsidered Conference appeared first on Insight Into Diversity.

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Cabrini University Lays Off Six Full-Time Faculty, Some Tenured, As Part of Budget Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of the school’s 69 full-time faculty – included faculty in writing and narrative arts, science, math, and visual and performing arts, a Cabrini spokesperson said. Drinan also said enrollment had declined from 2,360 in 2016 to approximately 1,500 and that Cabrini was exploring a merger. “No The six – 8.7%

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Institutional autonomy: does it need an ‘academic community’?

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The arrival of the ‘alternative provider’ In 1997 the Dearing Report saw diversity in British higher education institutions as an advantage ‘especially in providing for student choice; in programme and pedagogic innovation’ and ‘in the ability of the sector as a whole to meet the wide range of expectations now relevant to higher education’.

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NASPA Centers the Stories of Diverse Student Affairs Professionals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. It might be your time, but not your door," she added.

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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. These increases are a good sign.” respectively.