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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. Research is a relative newcomer to the work of English universities.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. Faculty do it as part of their research and part of their service to the university and to the state.” His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. That rose to 61.2%

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 3

EAB

Blogs Creating a data-informed campus: part 3 Using data to facilitate institutional effectiveness The conversation around data-informed decision making in higher education continues to accelerate. All too often, however, the question of how to capture these data and use them to positively affect the institution remains.

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TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success

EAB

EAB · TSU’s Systematic Approach to Student Success Navigate Navigate is higher education's leading student CRM, built based on a decade of research to improve recruitment, student success, and the student experience. So for me, being an institutional research person, we're always saying, let's address the true problem.

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Lehigh University’s data strategy: A roadmap to a university’s analytics transformation

EAB

Blogs Lehigh University's data strategy: A roadmap to a university's analytics transformation January 31, 2023 Yenny Anderson Vice Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics, Lehigh University The views and opinions expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Proposed and enacted remedies have been punitive, such as eliminating various tax benefits for higher education and, above all, imposing an excise tax on the endowment income of several dozen of the wealthiest private colleges and universities, as provided in the Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017.