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Dr. Lynn Akey Appointed Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For her work, Akey was Minnesota State System Academic and Student Affairs Administrator of the Year in 2021. in educational policy and administration from the University of Minnesota. Akey holds a B.S. in psychology from Truman State University; an M.A. in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University; and a Ph.D.

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Endowment Returns Down for Fiscal Year 2022, Especially for Schools with Less

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The decline comes after a spectacular performance in fiscal year 2021, when endowment returns increased by 30.6% Although the data represents only about 20% of non-profit colleges and universities, those institutions own about 99% of the endowment wealth in higher education, according to calculations by Dr. Sarah M.

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Four Big Questions on Carnegie Classifications Changes

Robert Kelchen

It is World Series time, so why not devote a blog post to one of the most fascinating inside baseball conversations within higher education? The Carnegie classifications have served for decades as perhaps the most prominent way to group colleges into buckets of reasonably similar institutions. million and $31.4

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. Creating a data-informed campus: part 2.

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AAC&U Suggests Ways to Align Open Educational Resources and DEI Goals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, co-published by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education, is based on research done on the 66 colleges, universities, and state systems that were part of AAC&U’s first Institute on Open Educational Resources, which took place between 2021 and 2022.

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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. That has remained the case with UCU’s ‘Post-1992 National Contract’.

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Statistical Standards vs. Student Support: The 'Good Data' Dilemma

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

In essence, we first learn that in statistical analysis, if data does not check these boxes, it may be “bad data.” We know this well as assessment professionals in higher education. Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs. What Is “Good” Research? Is it generalizable?” Anderson, G.