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My 2024 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

This spring, I get to teach my PhD class in higher education finance again—the eighth time that I have taught it in my eleven-year faculty career. I use articles, working papers, news coverage, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. Friedman, J. Working paper.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

HISPA has received several awards and recognitions for its impact, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2020. In 2015, it received The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics’ Bright Spot in Hispanic Education honor.

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Supreme Court Ruling Could Produce Chilling Effect on Equity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Saenz said that overinterpretation of the law’s restriction pulled other equitizing measures in higher education into question, like affinity groups and ethnic studies courses. The proposition had what Saenz called a “chilling effect” that prevented other, equitizing steps from being taken in higher education in the state.

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Higher Education Can Connect Diverse Students to Lucrative, Technical Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020. Applications for jobs like automotive technicians or respiratory therapists went from an average of 10 applications each to only five. Dr. Willie L.

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My 2023 Higher Education Finance Reading List

Robert Kelchen

I have the pleasure of teaching my PhD class in higher education finance again at Tennessee this summer. The last three times that I taught the course ( spring 2022 , spring 2020 , and fall 2017 ), I shared my reading list for the class on this blog. The higher education finance landscape and data sources Chetty, R.,

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Should Higher Education Consider Cloud-Based VPNs?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Post-pandemic, the need for remote access has slowed from its frantic 2020 pace, but hasn’t stopped. In higher education, institutions must decide whether to host and manage on-premises VPNs on their own networks or farm them out to a vendor that provides cloud-based VPN services.

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Purdue Northwest Chancellor Thomas Keon's Mockery of an "Asian" Language is Emblematic of a Wider Problem in American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This has had real effects across the American higher education sector: since 2016, new international student enrollment had been decreasing year over year across colleges and universities in the United States, even before it plummeted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That is wonderful news. Dr. Stephanie K.