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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

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Higher Ed Braces for Impact of Third-Party Service Regulation Expansion: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 149 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. By 2014 when his firm merged with the global law firm Cooley LLP, the higher education practice he headed was the largest and one of the highest regarded in the country.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Per the one-time federal student loan debt relief effort, Pell Grant recipients who earned within a certain amount of income during the pandemic — less than $125,000 for individuals and under $250,000 for married couples or heads of households — would have had up to $20,000 in debt forgiven. Approximately 2.9 1, 2023, to Sept. Dr. Lester C.