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Social capital and the degree awarding gap: spaces, places and relationships

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Amira Asantewa is Director of Programmes, Grit Breakthrough Programmes Reuel Blair is Lead Diversity Programmes Coordinator at the Centre for Student and Community Engagement, Nottingham Trent University Progress on the Black-white degree awarding gap has gone into reverse. Across the sector, institutions are responding.

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Lesley University to lay off faculty as it phases out 4 degrees

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Enrollment has tanked at the private Massachusetts institution, where the president has faced two no-confidence votes.

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Dickinson State faculty plead to preserve academic programs — and their jobs

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The North Dakota college’s president said it must cut degrees and tenured positions to counter a potential $1 million budget hole.

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Over 30 tenured faculty face layoffs under University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee plan

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The institution’s chancellor recommended closing a general studies college that supports two-year degrees.

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Dickinson State finalizes plan to cut 7 programs, 5 tenured faculty

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North Dakota’s higher ed board will need to OK eliminating degrees at the public college.

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Academic cuts loom at UNC-Greensboro. Faculty question whether they’re needed at all.

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The North Carolina college is gearing up to drop degree programs, though one analysis found it’s in sound financial shape.

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Columbia College Chicago to discontinue several degree programs, lay off faculty members

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Columbia College Chicago announced plans to consolidate or discontinue several of its degree programs and possibly lay off more than two dozen faculty members. The post Columbia College Chicago to discontinue several degree programs, lay off faculty members appeared first on University Business.

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