Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

Studies have shown that reducing textbook costs can directly contribute to student success by allowing them to allocate resources to other essential needs (Miller and Murray, 2019). Developing a program which highlights access and equity is a highlight of my career in public education. ” Journal of Higher Education 92, no.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

McMillan Cottom’s dissertation research at Emory explored for-profit colleges, which led to her first book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy, which published in 2017 and catapulted her onto the national scene. “I McMillan Cottom’s second book, THICK: And Other Essays, was published in 2019.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Image: Campus and faculty leaders in the California Community College system are eagerly anticipating the selection of a new chancellor this week. Meanwhile, the system, like community colleges across the country, experienced significant enrollment declines during the pandemic. “We had a very strong pool,” she said.

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The PIE News

MAY 2, 2024

“The government is intent on attacking migrants and harming universities, but it is scandalous that university managers are willing to destroy the livelihoods of their staff based on mere projections of future international recruitment levels,” University and College Union general secretary Jo Grady told The PIE.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: New data from the Lumina Foundation on college degree or credential attainment rates for U.S. The national share of working-age Americans who hold college degrees increased across racial and ethnic groups and rose in all states between 2019 and 2021. percent in 2019. adults show both good and bad news.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 14, 2024

Studies have shown that reducing textbook costs can directly contribute to student success by allowing them to allocate resources to other essential needs (Miller and Murray, 2019). Developing a program which highlights access and equity is a highlight of my career in public education. ” Journal of Higher Education 92, no.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

However, the durability of America’s rural regions rests squarely on the shoulders of its citizens accessing higher forms of education, notes the report. Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019. As a result, researchers at Georgetown recommended the following to fortify higher education in rural America.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Julian Vasquez Heilig The selection of Vasquez Heilig as provost is a game changer for WMU, say higher education leaders who point to his tenure at UK where he strategically increased student enrollment in the College of Education by 63 percent, noting that his efforts have focused on increasing diversity among teachers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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HEPI

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s taken me almost 20 years but, over the summer, I eventually got around to reading a book I’ve been wanting to read on higher education policy since I started working in the area over 15 years ago: University to Uni – The Politics of Higher Education since 1944 by Robert Stevens.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

AUGUST 27, 2023

Anew data analysis from the Institute for Higher Education Policy found that most students have unmet need and experience gaps between what their families can pay and their college costs. Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

23 article in The New York Times , “ How College and Sports-Betting Companies ‘Caesarized’ Campus Life ,” which chronicled how universities have signed lucrative contracts with sports betting companies to promote online gambling to their students and campus communities. Nowhere has this been more evident than in a Nov.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Image: Much about Oberlin College is unique, including long-standing policies guaranteeing the faculty a say in matters that extend well beyond academics. So these faculty members are perplexed—and angry—that the college is trying to change its bylaws to restrict faculty control to academics only.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 12, 2025

Best has been a well-known advocate for education reform and has built a network of relationships within both political parties. His close ties to Bush, a key figure in education policy, have been part of a broader pattern of OPM companies gaining influence across the political spectrum.

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IHEP

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Like many students across the country, Coleen began her journey to a four-year degree at a community college. When I was 18, I realized that I was going to be paying for college on my own and it hadn’t really hit me before, like exactly how much it costs,” Coleen explained. FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTIONS.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Morishita, interim president at CSULA.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Many are long-established, notably Holmes Institute (2004) and the Australian College of Applied Professions (2001). It is instructive that the same Department of Education chose a more nuanced and sophisticated formula for public universities. These institutions pre-date the creation of the world-leading ESOS Act.

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HEPI

JULY 28, 2023

The speech looks at the state of higher education in summer 2023 and ahead to the next general election, due in 2024 (or, less likely, 2025). First, despite working in higher education policy for well over 15 years and despite having visited nearly every UK university, I have never visited the University of Wolverhampton before.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In both instances, the principal aim was to understand better the challenges to HE progression faced by those on advanced level applied and professional courses (including BTECs) at a Midlands based further education (FE) college. For context, progression rates are generally lower from FE colleges than sixth forms.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer In 2021, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education reported that two out of three learners—we call them learners, not students, to dispel the image of the 18- to 22-year-old residential student—come to college with previous credit or prior learning.

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

McCann (2019) has argued that ‘the UK has the greatest spatial inequality in Europe’, a view endorsed by IPPR North (Webb et al, 2022) and by the Levelling Up White Paper (2022 para 1.2.1). In some cases, Plymouth being a notable example in the South West, universities had established networks of colleges with which they collaborated.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This guest post has been kindly written for HEPI by Colin McCaig, Professor of Higher Education Policy in the Sheffield Institute of Education, who has 20 years’ experience in education policy research. The Labour Party is ahead in the polls and has been since December 2021.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One of the biggest challenges students face is determining their return on investment for obtaining a college degree. In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with the person who generated and crunched these numbers, Michael Itzkowitz , president of the HEA Group and former director of the College Scorecard under President Obama.

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SRHE

JULY 20, 2022

Work within Neyland et al (2019), based on interviews with 2014 panel members, suggests that all records were destroyed at the end of the processes and that reconciliation was used to ensure conformity to the dominant view of the elite power holders who define both what research is and what constitutes quality. The voice in my head?

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2025

She worked successively at University College Cardiff, and the Universities of Leeds, Bradford and Sussex (in the Institute of Employment Studies), before becoming head of the Family Finances Research Group at the Policy Studies Institute in London (1994-1998).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2023

A new study by EAB highlights a trend among students who feel unsure about their commitment to college due to growing concerns about affordability, academic success, and mental health preparedness. According to the survey, more than one in five students (22 percent) have decided to opt out of college because they are not mentally ready.

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The PIE News

JULY 31, 2023

Over several years, the union has raised the issue in courts in the US on several occasions, including in 2019. “With such an overarching commitment in place, successful international education policies – such as OPT – would be more likely to be recognised as essential,” Allen Murray said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Another is that administrators at some colleges are going to make decisions that are foolish or short-sighted, professors are going to get mad -- and Inside Higher Ed' s readers won't be able to get enough of it. " That question loomed over federal higher education policy for much of 2022.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Until recently Liz was Director of Policy for both the University of Lincoln and the Greater Lincolnshire Local Enterprise Partnership. G]overnment, states, local communities, schools, colleges, companies, families, and personal and professional networks all help form the infrastructure of opportunity.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

In Oxford, Professor Selina Todd co-signed an open letter to The Sunday Times in June 2019 questioning the acceptability of universities paying for training by Stonewall on LGBT matters, arguing that it was discouraging academic freedom of discussion. If this was a college event, the University’s conduct was not in question in this case.

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IHEP

AUGUST 5, 2024

NPSAS is the most comprehensive study measuring how students and their families pay for college, as well as students’ characteristics and other aspects of their postsecondary experience. Importantly, NPSAS enables follow-up surveys so that students’ experiences and outcomes can be assessed over time.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Insights on New Policies in Higher Education This episode of Washington Update examines the dire need for HEA reauthorization. Drumm McNaughton and Tom Netting focus on the Higher Education Act of 2019 (HEA), the FAFSA Simplification Act, and various Title regulations. 00:00:32] Tom: Sure.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

She saw benefits in providers ‘sharing support services with other universities and colleges’. Those made separately for their Colleges. billion and its colleges taken together have endowments of £5.06 Cambridge’s richest College, Trinity, declares endowments of £2.19 She undertook to publish proposals for ‘major reform’.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Diploma Mills: How For-profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream. The Road Ahead for America's Colleges & Universities. Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Is College Worth It?: Teachers College Press.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The middle slice of the club sandwich, the mid-day plenary, focused on the current federal role in higher education policy. Congress is so deadlocked that the Higher Education Act is years overdue for reauthorization, and nobody really expects it to happen anytime soon.

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