Sat.Jan 06, 2024

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Harvard’s Claudine Gay was ousted for ‘plagiarism’. How serious was it really?

The Guardian - Higher Education

Gay resigned amid claims of plagiarism, but was it the person being accused rather than the violation itself that brought about her downfall? Claudine Gay’s days as Harvard president may well have been numbered from the moment she appeared to equivocate on whether theoretical calls for violence against Jewish people violated Harvard’s rules while testifying before Congress last month.

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NIU exploring options to reduce $18.5M budget deficit - Megann Horstead, Shaw Local

Economics and Change in Higher Education

The university’s fiscal 2023 budget exhibits a shortfall that officials attribute to a variety of factors, including the state budget impasse of 2015-2016, high inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic and declining enrollment. George Middlemist, vice president of administration and finance and CFO at NIU, said the university community can rest assured knowing that there is a plan in place to address the budget deficit.

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The choices over 20 years that led to Saint Rose's closure - Kathleen Morre, Times Union

Economics and Change in Higher Education

In the last three decades, sweeping decisions made by The College of Saint Rose leaders to attract students backfired. The Board of Trustees tripled the size of the campus. Enrollment dropped while the college took on double-digit debt. The private institution cut expensive programs. Some faculty rebelled, saying the board was destroying the college.

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