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Hackerthons for Training New Federal Government Consultants?

Higher Education Whisperer

GovHack AGM OnlineThis is to suggest GovHack hackerthons be used to quickly get the new federal government internal consultants up to speed. GovHack is a non-profit organization which organizes an annual hackerthon using government data sources. This happens at sites around Australia (

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What Is a STOP Grant, and How Does It Apply to Higher Education?

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

The federal government responded to the changing higher education landscape in the early part of this decade by making significant grant funds available to colleges and universities to promote student safety and help institutions offer remote and hybrid instruction.

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New Research on Heightened Cash Monitoring

Robert Kelchen

I have spent most of the last year digging into the topic of heightened cash monitoring (HCM), perhaps the federal government’s most important tool in its higher education accountability toolbox at this time. This seems like an obscure topic, but it affects a substantial portion of American higher education.

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Dr. Elfred A. Pinkard Appointed Brown University’s First HBCU Presidential Fellow

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown also aims to build infrastructure capacity at participating HBCUs and leadership in higher education and policy development. HBCUs are a special sector in the unique mosaic of American higher education,” said Pinkard. “But

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Civil Rights Leaders Declare The Freedom To Learn at Rally in Washington D.C.

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Leaders will speak on the connection between book bans, anti-CRT or “anti-woke” laws, and the suppression of other civil liberties and social justice values as part of a coordinated far-right effort to extinguish civil rights at all levels of federal government.

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Georgetown welcomes higher education financial leader, alumnus as new CFO

University Business

Prior to his career in higher education, Sastry spent 18 years working in the federal government. The post Georgetown welcomes higher education financial leader, alumnus as new CFO appeared first on University Business. He served as the director of the Office of U.S. Read more from Georgetown University.

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Trade Commission Sues Grand Canyon University for Deceptive Advertising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education that it would appeal an “unprecedented and unjust $37.7 Given the major problems that exist in higher education. it is baffling that the federal government has chosen to target a Christian university that is addressing those issues in very positive ways," the university said in a statement.