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A pantomime without a happy ending

SRHE

Cinderella would love to go but has no well-paid staff to wear; the DfE and OfS ugly sisters prepare eagerly by appointing more recruitment consultants. Best of all, Cinderella’s pay rags turn into a shimmering and apparently permanent contract, and her glass ceiling is transformed into slippers. Sleeping Beauty.

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. In December 2021, after another very successful Research Conference, she gave notice of her intention to retire. The benefits were such that the Society was able to introduce its now established series of annual research grants.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” ASHE is moving its 2024 meeting to Minneapolis, even though it may incur financial costs from breaking a contract with the Hilton New Orleans Riverside. Guilbeau, the higher ed research group’s executive director. This is more than a “business decision,” said Jason P.

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Embracing a New Model for Higher Education Governance Part 2: The Updated Board Duties

The Change Leader, Inc.

Boards are charged with overseeing an institution’s mission, vision, values, strategic direction, financial health, academic quality, student success, community engagement, diversity, inclusion, research, faculty development, campus safety, and more. in grants because of a research scandal. And there are others.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

And for some scholars, there are academic benefits to living and working in a locality or culture where one’s research is centered. Research priorities may need to shift. But in an international setting, other factors come to bear on a scholar’s ability to sustain a research agenda. Import of laboratory equipment is costly.

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What a Tech Company’s Big Shift Portends for the Future of the Master’s Degree

Higher Ed Connects: News

After it spent more than $850-million over the past two years to buy companies that offer professional education and run coding boot camps in conjunction with colleges, 2U investors could hardly have been shocked over the company’s moves to diversify from a reliance on contracts with universities for master’s degrees. Department of Education.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton discusses the misconceptions and essential roles these institutions have in their communities with Executive Director Dr. Andrew Koricich of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges, a research collaborative and resource hub that has completed the insurmountable task of defining what rural-serving institutions are.