Economics and Change in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2023

Taken together, they forbid faculty members from including a set of so-called “divisive concepts” about race, gender and identity in their classrooms; ban most diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives; restrict general education curricula and university mission statements; and limit the power of higher education accreditors to perform quality assurance (..)

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

New Jersey City University is slashing its budget and teaching staff. NJCU’s Board Chair Joseph Scott called the announcement "a difficult but necessary next step towards the long-term sustainability of the university mission." In response to a budget deficit of $12 million.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

North Dakota State University is facing “daunting” funding cuts totaling $10.5 25, by Cook, who warned of difficulties ahead and said he cannot promise the “core university mission” will emerge unscathed. million resulting from a decline in student credit hours that form the base of the state funding it receives.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. At a public university such as Kansas State University, where I am employed, budget and salary information is public, and understanding about budget decisions and functions is important to our constituents and communities.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

As I prepare to step down after 15 years as chancellor at the University of Colorado Boulder, the higher education landscape looks much different than what I encountered as a new professor in 1974. Universities face increasing scrutiny from politicians who would like to dictate what students may learn in the classroom.

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Creatrix Campus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Beyond daily operations, you shape the university's vision, steering academic excellence, financial sustainability, and overall growth. Therefore your KPIs can't just be plain; they should directly align with your university's mission, guiding you through everything from student success to financial stability.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Dr. Missy Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How do your areas align with the university learning outcomes, and 2. How might we work together to build an organized plan to achieve those goals with contributions from all areas of the university? The discussion prompts were essentially, 1. The conversation did not disappoint.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Distance learning in colleges and universities is now recognized as more than an alternative to the traditional face-to-face classroom (Higher Ed Partners, 2021), which is how distance learning was largely viewed at the time that institutions turned entirely to virtual teaching and learning during COVID-19 (Suruchi & Dutt, 2021).

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Dr. Missy Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

How do your areas align with the university learning outcomes, and 2. How might we work together to build an organized plan to achieve those goals with contributions from all areas of the university? The discussion prompts were essentially, 1. The conversation did not disappoint.

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HESA

MAY 3, 2023

But in pretty much all cases, a lot of rankings discourse revolves around the idea that rankings carry too many negative externalities: that is, they “pervert” the way universities work by creating incentives to do things they would not otherwise do. Universities themselves, partly. And who’s pushing for inclusion in these rankings?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

Key examples of mission-based institutions are Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs). In California, these designations are widely held by many of our state Colleges and Universities. McGowan Professor, School of Education, American University Dr. Christopher B.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2024

This article explores these challenges in three key markets – the US, the UK and Canada – and proposes a change in the way universities think about communications to overcome such hardships. The Challenge Universities develop institutional strategies for growth and sometimes invest in brand strategies for perception management.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

The controversy followed closely on one that got much more attention: Hamline University’s decision not to renew the contract of a lecturer after she showed her class a masterpiece of medieval Islamic art depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Just ask curators and directors at the nation’s hundreds of campus art museums and galleries.

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