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Why the Defense Department is poised to become HBCUs’ new best friend

University Business

Federal officials discovered that land-grant HBCUs in 16 states have been underfunded compared to their neighboring, predominantly white research universities by more than $12 billion since 1987. Senators are now working to create stronger federal oversight over state funding. billion in fiscal year 2020.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts. Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government.

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

No matter one’s views on CRT or related lines of critical inquiry, current efforts in Florida are an attempt to subvert academic freedom and assert complete governmental control over faculty speech in public college and university classrooms. Florida looked to a 2006 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Garcetti v.

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Insights for Higher Ed Presidents: A Fireside Chat with Brit Kirwan: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 184 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. William E. "Brit" Kirwan

The Change Leader, Inc.

Prior to his presidency, he was a member of the University of Maryland mathematics faculty for 24 years. In 2009, he received the Carnegie Corporation Leadership Award, which included a $500,000 grant to support USM academic priorities. And of course that upset the faculty. [00:12:43] 00:12:29] Brit Kirwan: Yeah. [00:12:29]

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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.

In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them. The federal government alone uses dozens of definitions. That’s problematic because college land grants get so big that they make their communities less rural.