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JANUARY 14, 2024

There's been a lot of talk about market exit - but, as Jess Lister and Jonathan Simons explain, still no clarity on exactly what safeguards would be in place for the interests of students, the locality, and the nation The post We still don’t know what happens when a large university runs out of money appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Dear Black women in higher education, 2023 should have been a wake-up call to our community, yet the red flags persist. The untimely deaths of two Black women presidents, JoAnne A. Epps of Temple University and Dr. Orinthia T. Montague of Volunteer State Community College, was a signal to all other Black women in higher education. Now, the death of Dr.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 14, 2024

The numbers of universities that pay a living wage is growing year on year - Jonathan Grant urges those remaining to bite the bullet The post Let’s make 2024 the year all UK universities commit to the real living wage appeared first on Wonkhe.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

This blog is provided by Daniel Dipper who graduated from the University of Oxford in 2023, having been the first from his immediate family to go to university thanks to Zero Gravity, The Sutton Trust, and the Social Mobility Foundation. What is the connection between political science and project management? How could a degree in History and Politics be so useful in financial technology?

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The article addresses the Social Change Model of Leadership Development. It elucidates the SMC background, key assumptions, and the main pillars of the model to form a a change agent who could be helpful with institutional in-service delivery.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 14, 2024

Reflecting on a week in the Baltics and Finland with SU officers and staff, Jim Dickinson and Livia Scott try to understand what's stopping UK universities from trusting students with responsibility and power The post We make tomorrow by fostering responsibility, courage, and collaboration appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2024

This article highlights strategies employed across varied disciplines, and at various levels, at the University of Arizona and demonstrates that a “career everywhere” approach is effective in meeting the complementary but unique needs of students and educators related to career readiness in higher education. What follows are suggestions and real examples of teaching and career development strategies adopted by multiple educators at a large, R1, land grant, HSI university.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 14, 2024

This article highlights strategies employed across varied disciplines, and at various levels, at the University of Arizona and demonstrates that a “career everywhere” approach is effective in meeting the complementary but unique needs of students and educators related to career readiness in higher education. What follows are suggestions and real examples of teaching and career development strategies adopted by multiple educators at a large, R1, land grant, HSI university.

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Wonkhe

JANUARY 14, 2024

It’s time for a serious discussion about what happens if there’s a large-scale market exit, argue the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education’s Ben Elger and Charlotte Corrish The post Protecting students in the event of an unplanned provider closure appeared first on Wonkhe.

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Jon Boeckenstedt

JANUARY 14, 2024

Last week I had written about the David Leonhardt article in the NY Times (if you haven’t seen it by now, don’t bother, as the statistics it cites have been widely dismissed by people who know the reality), in which I suggested that it was yet another College Board plant, where they pre-deliver a nice […]

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

The Connecticut State Colleges and Universities system is offering employee buyouts and raising tuition in response to a $140 million budget deficit, CT Insider reported. About 550 employees who are age 60 or older and have worked for the state for at least 10 years will be eligible for the buyouts, according to a Board of Regents report. If half of those eligible accept and no positions are refilled, the system will save $45.9 million.

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JANUARY 14, 2024

Sign the petition… Take action to demand the Rugby Football Union revoke permission for arms fairs to use Twickenham Stadium… it only takes two minutes to complete : No Twickenham Arms Fairs! (eaction.online) Photo from London demo yesterday Sat. 13th Jan.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2024

Faculty at California State University, the largest public university system in the U.S., could stage a systemwide strike later this month after school officials ended contract negotiations Tuesday with a unilateral offer of a 5% pay raise, far below what the union is demanding. Professors, librarians, coaches and other members of the California Faculty Association staged a series of one-day walkouts across four campuses last month to demand higher pay, more manageable workloads and an increase

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