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How Severance Mirrors U.S. Higher Education Administration: The Compartmentalization and Bureaucracy of Modern Academia

Higher Education Inquirer

In many academic institutions, faculty, staff, and students often navigate strict hierarchies and narrowly defined roles, which can create significant barriers between these groups. Administrators focus on policies and data, while faculty members concentrate on teaching and research.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

Thus Departmental Research covers cost sharing (separately broken out in the table above); start-up packages, bridge funding, and seed funding for faculty; tuition aid to students working on sponsored projects; funds for visiting researchers; and everything else related to research that is not funded elsewhere.

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

In the university case, faculty perform multiple functions, as do facilities such as classrooms, labs, and libraries. Obviously, a large expense item in the budget of a research university is the faculty salary line. In the UC case, faculty reported that the teaching time was roughly evenly split between undergraduates and graduates.

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U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

Inside Higher Ed

The university has said it did so to better align the Graduate College of Social Work with broader institutional priorities. The former dean, Alan Dettlaff—who is returning to the social work faculty, for now—says his views on racial justice got him fired. ” (McClain did not respond to an interview request.).

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Scaling Online Programming: The Fundamental Building Blocks

Helix Education

Provide a quality student experience : This starts with a comprehensive review of the student experience from the time that they first learn about the institution, to the time that they enroll in a course, and then on to how they progress from course to course to graduation. How many programs should a typical school take on at one time?

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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Students, staff, faculty and alumni of Towson University in Maryland gathered last month to celebrate the renaming of two dormitories, now called Barnes Hall and Harris Hall, after the university’s first two Black graduates. ” Still other institutions directly address the potential legal repercussions of removing a name.

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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

University Business

His interest in divorcing higher education from what he perceives as a far-left agenda antithetical to American democracy has invited judges, faculty and administration, and similarly skeptical conservatives across state lines to deliberate on the current state of higher education. “He is taking names. “Be wary and be aware.