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Morgan State University’s Bold Journey Toward Elite R1 Research Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Wilson,the quest to attain R1 status the highest designation auniversity can get for its research enterprise is aboutmore than just attaining some sort of higher education sealof approval. For instance, whereas Morgan State spent $13 million on research in 2018, the figure stood at $43.9

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Weekend Reading: Imperfect information in higher education

HEPI

In this weekend long read, he discusses the history of marketisation in higher education and considers whether applicants have enough information to make informed judgements about where and what they study. Some 40% of undergraduate students might have chosen a different route, although only 6% would not have entered higher education.

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What is a ‘governing document’ in the University of Sussex?

SRHE

The Higher Education and Research Act (2017) s.3(8)(a) 3(8)(a) protects the autonomy of higher education providers, defining it as the freedom of English higher education providers within the law to conduct their day to day management in an effective and competent way. Sussex has given thought to that.

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Second-generation student borrowers

SRHE

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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Restoring academic values: a key for university effectiveness

SRHE

by John Kenny This blog post is based on research into the effectiveness of higher education policy, published in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. The article, Effectiveness in higher education: What lessons can be learned after 40 years of neoliberal reform?

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The health of higher education studies – cause for optimism?

SRHE

By Rachel Brooks How healthy is the area of higher education studies? Scholars have noted: the frequent absence of theory and short-term focus of such research ; the proximity of researchers to policy-makers which, it is argued, can make critical distance hard to achieve ; and the fragmentation of the field.

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Surviving and thriving in HE professional services

SRHE

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.