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Closing Higher Ed’s Equity Gaps

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Did you happen to see Malcolm Gladwell’s article “ Princeton University Is the World’s First Perpetual Motion Machine ”? In 1977, when the university’s endowment stood at $2 billion, its freshman class was 1,585. ” Is Princeton truly a leader in these fields?

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Mind the policy gaps: regulating quality and ethics in digitalised and privatised crossborder education

SRHE

These countries provide them with higher education and other forms of postsecondary education sometimes in their public sector but mostly in private institutions and by foreign providers. In the same year, its higher education institutions attracted approximately 680,000 international students. An alternative TNE model?

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a holistic approach, its mission is to ensure that all students thrive in engineering and computer science, particularly Latino, Black and women students, who are underrepresented in these fields. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We are an affordable institution.

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Key Facts and Figures about the Graduate Technical workforce

HEPI

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. HEPI is running a series of blogs with Midlands Innovation championing the role of technicians in higher education and research. per cent); to have graduated from a post-1992 university (55.3 Women represent 52.3

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe. colleges and universities, the faculty is less diverse than the students. To improve faculty diversity, college and university leaders need data. universities. Yet, at most U.S.

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Hard Truths That Higher Education Has Evaded for Too Long

Inside Higher Ed

Anyone who cares deeply about American higher education needs to come to grips with a series of hard and unpleasant truths: That this country’s system of postsecondary education relegates the students with the greatest needs to the most underresourced institutions. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Here are 4 things you can learn from this higher ed disruptor

University Business

Entrepreneurial-minded college and university leaders are overhauling deeply ingrained systems and frameworks to thrive in higher education’s next chapter. Amid this inflection point, entrepreneurs outside of the sector have begun offering alternative outlets to postsecondary education.