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Have Academic Library Staffing Numbers Really Declined That Much Over the Past Decade?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Over the past couple of weeks, I worked with a number of academic librarians and an expert in higher ed finance to create a series of Q&As that explored academic library funding. Again, fair criticism.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

Although these requirements are unavoidable burdens, I worked with faculty committees to identify data that would also be usable by them as they educated students. On-demand webinar Building a Culture of Data Confidence Learn more about effective data management and how institutional culture impacts the use of data. link] Hillman, N.,

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

He went on to chair MIT Sloan School’s Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting; then became Deputy Dean of the school; and eventually serve for three years as the Chief Economist for the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States before returning to MIT. That which doesn’t get measured doesn’t get managed.