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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. 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. in educational policy and administration from the University of Minnesota.

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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. on average.

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Four Big Questions on Carnegie Classifications Changes

Robert Kelchen

There is still a lot of uncertainty about the final results, but the most concrete change is to the coveted Research I university criteria. Instead of being based on ten criteria, the only two criteria moving forward will be $50 million in research expenditures and 70 doctorates awarded. Some colleges appear to already do this.

Research 100
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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

EAB

"Analytics programs are most successful when various constituents – institutional research, information technology, functional leaders, and executives – work in partnership" (6). The concept of an integrated model is partially responsible for the increase in institutional effectiveness offices. Data analysts.

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Catalyzing a sense of community in classrooms

Confessions of a Community College Dean

What it is: Chatterjea and her colleagues Nancy Bostrom, associate director of assessment, and Bethany Miller, director of institutional research and assessment, launched the Classroom Community and Connectedness Project at Macalester in September 2021.

Faculty 84
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Making Sense of Changes to the U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Robert Kelchen

News were assessed on fall 2021 data reported to the IPEDS Human Resources survey. I don’t know if colleges are advantaged or disadvantaged by reporting Common Data Set data, but I would bet that institutional research offices around the country are running their analyses right now to see which method gives them a strategic advantage.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Programs include the university’s “earn and learn,” which provides funding for off-campus internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning, and cohort programs that serve particular student groups. In Fall 2021 and Fall 2022, the average course load for Latino students was 14.5