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Real Faculty Wages Decline for Third Straight Year

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Participants came from a wide variety of institutional types, including doctoral universities, regional schools, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and minority-serving institutions. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4% drop in real wages, the third straight sharp decline, for a cumulative loss of 7.5%

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

” The Crest of a ‘New Wave’ In the strategic plan, the commission notes the proposal is part of a “new wave” of higher education policy focused on value rather than enrollment or degree attainment.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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“The seeds are sown” – what’s next for UK India education partnerships?

The PIE News

Delegates have a chance to visit some of these during the week, from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, a public research-intensive university with a 545 acre campus (complete with its own crocodile, if the rumours are to be believed), to Ashoka university, a private liberal arts and science institute located on the outskirts of Delhi.

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How do you start a new university?

LSE Higher Education Blog

To what degree are these new start-ups reflections of a distinctly American approach to the liberal arts, and to what degree do they reflect local traditions and aspirations? What are the different and sometimes hidden meanings embedded in aspirations to offer a globalized form of education and to create global citizens?

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Biden administration to list low-performing programs

Inside Higher Ed

Amy Ellen Duke-Benfield, managing director of policy and research at Higher Learning Advocates, a bipartisan nonprofit that works to improve outcomes for students, said the federal government is lagging behind state leaders, who already have been talking about how to define a high-quality postsecondary program. ” Other Caveats.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs." In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Bold Type Books. Bennett, W. and Wilezol, D. Is College Worth It?:

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