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Real Faculty Wages Decline for Third Straight Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report is based on data from a survey of nearly 900 US colleges and institutions, who provided information on more than 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members. Colleges let short-term employees go to save money during the pandemic, and many of their courses were absorbed by other faculty members, he said.

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How do you start a new university?

LSE Higher Education Blog

Still knottier challenges arise in creating a workable system of governance and forging an academic ethos that can help the new institutions leaders collectively make intelligent decisions and respond to the needs of the country and region where their college or university is located. Yet this process raises additional thorny questions.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

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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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

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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Biden administration to list low-performing programs

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Nearly a decade after the Obama administration broached the idea of rating colleges and universities, the Biden administration is ready to take another crack at the historically fraught concept. The Obama administration didn’t end up rating institutions after opposition from higher education groups and others.)

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Is for-profit higher education dying or just a shell of itself?

Inside Higher Ed

A recent episode of The Key, Inside Higher Ed ’s news and analysis podcast, used the possible Arkansas-Phoenix marriage as a moment to take stock of the state of for-profit higher education. I love community colleges. Where is higher education’s responsibility there? Your completion rates are going to be bad.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

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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