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Howard Earns $90 Million DoD Contract, a First for an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

government took a major step towards remedying these disparities by awarding a five-year $90 million contract to create a university affiliated research center (UARC) to Howard University, one of the largest HBCUs in America. The Howard contract is the result of a conscious effort by the Department of Defense to address these disparities.

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These homeownership programs help create affordable living for employees

University Business

This “invisible housing crisis” can also disrupt efforts to attract and retain talented faculty and staff, according to a report last year from the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Some bold colleges and universities are expanding homeownership programs to keep faculty and staff in the community.

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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. Other graduate students have received promotions to senior level managers.

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Looking back at the UC graduate worker strike (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the contract was ratified with a split vote , with only about 62 percent of teaching assistants and 68 percent of graduate student researchers supporting the deal, compared to a 98 percent vote earlier in the fall in favor of striking. New contracts take time to implement. and South Africa. It behooves the university to listen.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University. Libraries can delay rehiring when necessary to use “salary savings” to manage budgets, at least in the short term. Among her many roles at KSU is Library Data Coordinator. on one time purchases, and the other 2.5%

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DEIJ Annual Report for 2022-2023

Goucher DEI

Hugh Dennis, director of risk management and contracts joins the Committee for this coming academic year. Faculty Work to Advance DEIJ Initiatives Goucher faculty have been advancing DEIJ in several ways, including reviewing and strengthening the guidelines for all Race, Power, and Perspective (RPP) courses.

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

Higher Ed Connects: News

Lots of higher-education leaders and faculty members should be paying attention to that, even if they don’t care about the future of OPMs, or even know what those initials mean. Following up on Pell Grants for the incarcerated. If the investors were surprised, that’s their problem. Department of Education.