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Research ethics committees should rethink risk

SRHE

A further concern for many educational researchers is that approaches to ethical review, initially developed in relation to biomedical sciences, have largely been positivist. The REC was therefore required to trust its researchers to act with integrity.

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$16B College Sports Revenue and Regulations: Knight Commission Insights: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 171 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Amy Privette Perko

The Change Leader, Inc.

The Knights Commission proposes there should be one governing association for football called the National College Football Association that’s separate from the governing association. Meanwhile, the NCAA will govern all other sports. We are funded by the John S. This isn’t a proposal to dismantle every conference.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The private ‘alternative providers’ encouraged by Governments in the first decades of the twenty-first century have rarely made a significant effort to be research-active so far. Governments have actively encouraged ‘Knowledge Exchange’. Funding for them may be uncertain. However the Levy does not fund Degree Apprenticeships.

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College 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Professional socialization. Ill-functioning systems of campus governance. ” Parents, prospective students, accreditors and government need more data, not less. Public and foundation funding should better align with student needs. For reasons that we all know full well: inertia. Narrow self-interest.

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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As more and more institutions continue to raise tuition to meet rising costs due to dwindling revenue streams and state and federal funding, students are not only looking for value but are hesitant to take on the debt of a college education. Also, there is the affordability of college.

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Campus art museum leaders feel the heat (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Earlier this month, officials at Lewis-Clark State College, a public institution in Idaho, removed half a dozen artworks from an exhibition due to concerns that display of the works, which related to abortion and reproductive health, violated the state’s No Public Funds for Abortion Act.

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The Next Frontiers in the Battle Over CRT and DEI

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Between 2022 and 2023, government entities introduced 57 measures to restrict the teaching of critical race theory in colleges and universities. It will have a spillover [effect] into local legislative activity, school boards, college campuses, state governments, and so on.” And the U.S.

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