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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I did not do enough research to answer the questions I was posing. The idea that academic library budgets are fungible shows ignorance of how these budgets work. Students and faculty depend on academic librarians for collaboration in learning and research. 3) How are academic libraries managing with fewer people?

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Higher education as a politicians’ playground

SRHE

Since he left in 2014 the political game-playing has sadly degenerated, becoming ever more disconnected from the real issues facing the HE sector. Covid and employment disputes have brought massive disruption for students, with class actions for compensation continuing as an additional looming threat to HE budgets.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

In the life of a campus information technology or institutional research professional, rarely a day goes by that data is not positioned as a universal solution, whether by a vendor or the higher education media. Institutional research offices can develop effective partnerships and collaborations across the institution to facilitate data use.

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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. I was certainly right about his career prospects. And why not?

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The Student Loan Mess: Next Chapters?

Higher Education Inquirer

In 2014, the father-son team of Joel Best and Eric Best published The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion Dollar Problem. Debates on the role of government and private lenders in financing higher education continued. What role will the private sector play in financing higher education? Next Chapters?