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Marist College Announces Historic Transition to University Status

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Marist College, the private school in Poughkeepsie, New York, has announced it will become Marist University effective later this month, marking a significant milestone in its nearly century-long history. The timing of the transition is particularly meaningful as Marist approaches its centennial in 2029. President Dr. Kevin C.

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Knocking on wood for this year’s FAFSA rollout

University Business

Canisius University has already begun receiving students’ financial data from the Department of Education, says Kevin Smith, assistant vice president for financial services at Canisius. She has found an error on multiple colleges and universities’ websites that state the FAFSA application opens every year on Oct.

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Open excess: remove open access burden from REF

HEPI

However, the latest REF proposals for Open Access (OA) — currently under consultation — depart from the generally positive direction of the forthcoming REF 2029. We could take the opportunity of REF 2029 to develop more robust policies, incentives, and evaluation mechanisms for open research.

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Student Accommodation after 2024 and the Need for Strategic Realignment

HEPI

On 24 October, Education Minister Janet Daby MP stressed that the Department for Education was: working with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to promote the importance of a strategic approach to meeting student housing needs to providers and local authorities.

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Open Access: A Benefit Not a Burden That is Worth the Cost

HEPI

The argument presented recently on this blog by representatives of Oxford University decrying the linkage of OA to the REF (which is now proposed to apply to long-form publications such as monographs and book chapters) touches on some valid questions about implementation, but we do not find their arguments convincing.

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Beechside views: meeting targets

The PIE News

With just days to go before the holiday season is upon us, British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has set out six pledges that he hopes to achieve by 2029. Waiting game For UK universities, the waiting game continues to find out what this means in practice. This is when the next general election is expected to be called in the UK.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson, a member of Delta Sigma Theta, had a sorority sister drive her to the airport following a visit to Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. During graduate school, she attended a summer program at the University of Colorado Boulder where she met a distinguished theoretical physicist from Bell Labs.