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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Doctorates for young scholars came next and in 1921 Oxford granted its first DPhil and Cambridge its first PhD, both expecting original research.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Last month, it announced that it would move the 2024 meeting, scheduled for New Orleans, out of Louisiana because of the state’s laws restricting access to abortion and the participation of transgender people in sports. This is more than a “business decision,” said Jason P. million reported in revenue from membership dues.

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Per the one-time federal student loan debt relief effort, Pell Grant recipients who earned within a certain amount of income during the pandemic — less than $125,000 for individuals and under $250,000 for married couples or heads of households — would have had up to $20,000 in debt forgiven. Approximately 2.9 1, 2023, to Sept.

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Higher Ed Braces for Impact of Third-Party Service Regulation Expansion: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 149 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

The Change Leader, Inc.

The original rule was designed to monitor contracted companies that provide colleges and universities with services to manage various aspects of Federal Student Aid. These regulations will likely not go into effect until July 1, 2024, at the earliest. It provides grants and loans to students. So, that’s the hook.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so, you know, I think the industry is really looking at. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugy of Microcredentials

Parchment

As the inter said, I’m micro credentials program manager at University of Colorado Boulder, as well as a co founder of the annual badge summit conference that is going to be in its ninth year here in 2024 at CU Boulder. And so, you know, I think the industry is really looking at. And so 2016 to 2024 is only eight years.

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The State of EdTech: OPMs, Risk Planning, and Generative AI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 189 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guest Phill Hill

The Change Leader, Inc.

Last time we talked about the OPMs and we’ll talk about that a little bit, but today let’s focus on some of the mega trends that you’re seeing in higher education technology and do a little prognostication about 2024. [00:32:32] And the pandemic made it worse and added noise to the system, but now it’s early 2024. [00:39:57]