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Strengthening data and insights into our changing university research landscape by Jessica Corner

HEPI

Research Englands role is to support a healthy, dynamic, diverse, and inclusive, research and innovation system in universities in England 6. We will be communicating to institutions directly about the pilot in the early Autumn. We work by facilitating and incentivising system coherence, acting as both champion and challenger.

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The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

ACRLog

The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? CARL lists eight competencies including collaboration, leadership and vision, equity, diversity, and inclusion, curation, and assessment, among others. The CARL Competencies. With your job description?

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

This last item is worth discussing because it brings up a few misconceptions about sponsored research - e.g. that it is revenue neutral (or even positive) for the institution. However, this current discussion has suggested that growth in research also drives growth in educational price.

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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

” Still other institutions directly address the potential legal repercussions of removing a name. Institutions—most recently, the University of California Hastings College of the Law —have been sued for attempting to change names they had previously promised to maintain in perpetuity.

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University Presidents Called to Action

Higher Education Inquirer

In all of this, university presidents have increasingly positioned themselves as moral arbiters, asserting their institutions commitment to social justice, inclusion, and equality. Yet this moral high ground becomes precarious when their administrations take extreme measures to suppress resistance.

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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

University Business

The college has since abolished all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, axed its top officer and ended its gender studies program. The college’s new institutional direction has ostracized legacy students and catalyzed a mass exodus among faculty members who don’t align with the state’s politics.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.