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Doctoral Distress: Graduate Program Pressures Impact Student Mental Health

Insight Into Diversity

Dean Beth Mayer-Davis, PhD, chair of the steering committee at UNC-Chapel Hill, welcomed students to the 2024-2025 Graduate Student Experience: We believe that we can have high academic rigor here at UNC along with student wellbeing. Schools that employ a holistic approach are better able to meet the needs of their doctoral students.

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Embedding Data in the Review Process to Improve Resource Allocation

EAB

Embedding Data in the Review Process to Improve Resource Allocation Streamlining Department Review with Standardized Data About St. Edify enabled SAU to use key department-level metrics to inform resource requests and make allocation decisions. Existing reports included disparate data points and required extensive manual analysis.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Paul Getty Trust, which funds research and visual art preservation, and Dr. Josef Sorett, dean of Columbia College at Columbia University and vice president for undergraduate education. Public universities and private universities all have very different kinds of funding allocations,” said Dirks. But they’re all getting more expensive.

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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Inside Higher Ed

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. At the same time, library deans and directors are struggling to retain and hire staff, according to the Ithaka survey.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Spending to the Scholar Who Wrote the Book on University Budgets

Inside Higher Ed

Q1: Overall, how do academic libraries allocate their budgets? When library deans talk to provosts about their budget, all these topics may come up, but I’d be surprised if subscription costs are not the most commonly discussed issue.

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Georgetown and Howard Universities Awarded $3 Million for Medical Humanities Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School , professor of African-American literature, and grant co-leader. The center will apply a medical humanities approach in addressing health disparities related to race/ethnicity and income, and health equity.

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Community colleges are banding resources together to secure their at-risk students’ education

University Business

billion allocated by Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds, about half went toward students directly and 80% of Pell Grant recipients received aid, averaging $2,000 apiece. In Emily Points’ time as the dean of students, she realized that those who stopped out for more than two semesters were most prominently due to financial reasons.