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How Severance Mirrors U.S. Higher Education Administration: The Compartmentalization and Bureaucracy of Modern Academia

Higher Education Inquirer

While this premise seems far-fetched, the shows underlying critique of institutional control, bureaucratic systems, and dehumanizing workplace environments mirrors certain aspects of U.S. higher education administration. Administrators focus on policies and data, while faculty members concentrate on teaching and research.

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University Presidents Called to Action

Higher Education Inquirer

In all of this, university presidents have increasingly positioned themselves as moral arbiters, asserting their institutions commitment to social justice, inclusion, and equality. Yet this moral high ground becomes precarious when their administrations take extreme measures to suppress resistance.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

HERD data instructions are clear:”R&D does not include unrecovered indirect costs that exceed your institution’s federally negotiated Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate”. Whatever the value of institutional Direct Funding of R&D, it is obviously the driver of the rapidly growing overall cost of Institutional R&D.

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Allowing university administrators to follow their own priorities in cost shifting and cost sharing between activities such as research and teaching has resulted in an enormously successful university research enterprise, and a highly respected educational system. The current system, which demands large annual real cost increases, is broken.

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The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

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The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? The CARL Competencies. How do you envision your role as an academic librarian? With your job description? And do you have the knowledge, skills, and values to support this work?

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.

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 Ready or Not, Here It Comes! New Regulations When Offering Programs Leading to a License Effective July 1!

WCET Frontiers

The administration changed and the Department sought to delay the state authorization-related rules on the eve of the effective date in 2018. Continue to follow a process to provide public and direct notifications relative to the states where students are served. This postponed the effective date until July 1, 2018.