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Internal Audit Finds No Issues with the Finances of Boston University Center for Antiracist Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An internal audit of Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research (CAR) has found no issues with the handling of CAR’s finances, according to the school. Kendi announced the laying off of 19 people, in doing so prompting outside questions about the center’s grant management and why it had not completed more research with its funding.

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Inclusive research agendas: what’s excluded?

SRHE

In particular, understanding access, participation and inclusion for those who align with the different protected characteristics (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) has been of interest to academic research, given various political movements to widen access to higher education.

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Boston U Antiracist Research Center Lays Off Employees

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is laying off as many as 15 to 20 staff members, the news website Semafor reported. The center was founded in 2020 following the killing of George Floyd.

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Brexit causes collapse in European research funding for Oxbridge

The Guardian Higher Education

Oxford and Cambridge universities, once given more than £130m a year in total by European research programmes, are now getting £1m annually between them One of the UK’s most prestigious universities has seen its funding from a large European research programme plummet from £62m a year to nothing since Brexit, new figures show.

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Doctoral progress reviews: managing KPIs or developing researchers?

SRHE

by Tim Clark All doctoral students in the UK are expected to navigate periodic, typically annual, progress reviews as part of their studies ( QAA, 2020 ). Interestingly however, there is currently very little research regarding effectiveness or practice in relation to either of these aspects.

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Study: CEI Civics Test Policy Ineffective at Improving Youth Voter Turnout

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

citizens from 1996–2020, researchers found that the CEI may not be effective. Instead of the CEI, which focuses on rote memorization and political knowledge testing, the researchers suggested alternatives as well. “We has the largest age gap in voter turnout among advanced democracies, with youth voter turnout at 48% in 2020.

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Report: Most Selective Private Higher Ed Institutions Enroll Insufficient Numbers of Latino Undergrads

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sandra Perez The sequel to a 2020 report on Black and Latino enrollment at selective U.S. For 2020, Harvard University scored 52, an F. The average access score in 2020 was 55. Most selective private colleges and universities in the U.S. Scores of 90 or higher were given A’s, 80 or higher B’s, and so forth.