The Guardian - Higher Education

DECEMBER 31, 2023

David Mead says there is a strong case that deducting pay may be unlawful as well as morally indefensible, while Prof Colin Bailey of Queen Mary University of London says it will not accept disruption to its students’ education Aditya Chakrabortty’s article shed welcome light on some of the horrendous industrial relations practices in the higher education sector ( The miserly tale of how a university took its staff’s wages – and the public paid the price, 22 December ).

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 31, 2023

While the number of women aged 18 to 24 in college has decreased by 200,000 since total college enrollment peaked in 2011, the number of men in that age bracket has dropped by a million during that time period. Men currently make up 42 percent of all 18- to 24-year-old college students, down from 47 percent in 2011. The shift has not impacted community colleges, where men make up approximately the same portion of traditional-age students as they did in 2011.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU. This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride. The perfect storms of COVID-19 and the demographic shifts of New England presented abundant challenges to the academic and university planning processes. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 31, 2023

In a letter to faculty and staff Friday, Chancellor Andrew Leavitt wrote the estimated budget shortfall had decreased to about $3 million. It’s still a “significant gap,” Leavitt wrote — larger than the projected shortfalls at four of the other Universities of Wisconsin campuses as of August — but UW-Oshkosh has plans to make up the rest of the shortfall by June 2026.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU. This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride. The perfect storms of COVID-19 and the demographic shifts of New England presented abundant challenges to the academic and university planning processes. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education.

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