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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.

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Judge Orders North Idaho to Reinstate President

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“The board’s majority has wrongfully locked its captain in the brig while steering NIC toward an iceberg,” State Judge Cynthia Meyer wrote in granting a preliminary injunction to Swayne.

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How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Them

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

No Pell Grants. Additionally, faculty and staff can advise undocumented students on alternative career pathways that they may not have considered such as independent contracting and starting a business, both of which can be done with only an individual tax ID number.

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A pantomime without a happy ending

SRHE

Best of all, Cinderella’s pay rags turn into a shimmering and apparently permanent contract, and her glass ceiling is transformed into slippers. Jack lived in desperately poor circumstances with his departmental colleagues, until one day all he had left was one research grant.

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When disgraced presidents return (or never go away)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“What is typically in most presidential contracts is that when they complete their contract, should they want to stay at the university, they will become a full professor in a department to be determined,” Wilde said. Image: Lou Anna K.

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How Universities Can Support Undocumented Students as Federal Policies Continue to Threaten Rhem

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

No Pell Grants. Additionally, faculty and staff can advise undocumented students on alternative career pathways that they may not have considered such as independent contracting and starting a business, both of which can be done with only an individual tax ID number.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Additionally, the Pell Grant maximum increased from $6,495 to $6,895 for the 2022-23 academic year. million contract.

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Should I Disclose Learning Differences on the College Application

Great College Advice

They often require students to sign a contract and charge additional fees ranging from $2,000 to $8,000 a year. Colleges grant accommodations when existing documentation clearly links the current impact of the disability to the requests your student is making.

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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. Image: The Association for the Study of Higher Education, like many organizations, plots its annual meetings several years ahead.

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Doctoral Borderlands: an exploration of doctoral education and its possible futures

SRHE

The marketisation of higher education (HE) has seen a growing number of HE staff being employed on short term hourly paid contracts, which has also triggered much of the recent University and College Union (UCU) Four Fights Campaign in the UK. This desire for ‘belonging’ in the academy has seen them take up casualised contracts with the hope that they would one day land up a permanent contract.

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Residency in Europe – How to get permanent residency in Europe

Buddy4Study

Your work contract or job offer should be for at least one year for a position that requires skilled qualifications or there’s a shortage of EU candidates for the position. Evidence of residence like utility bills and rental contracts. Work contract.

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

Maria Slowey took charge of the annual conference and immediately started work on the quality and quantity of submissions, while Rosemary Deem began the process of restoring SRHE’s finances by negotiating a new contract with long-term publishing partner Taylor & Francis.

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Almost all of the materials budgets are tied up in subscriptions and access fees for online resources, often with multi-year contracts with vendors that provide these services. Blog: Learning Innovation Laurel Littrell is a faculty librarian at Kansas State University.

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UC Strike Expected to Inspire Further Campus Organizing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So much of the academic labor is being done by people on short term contracts, in vulnerable positions.” Another factor was changes in the make-up of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which granted graduate workers at private schools the right to unionize in 2010.

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Take It From Me…These Loans Won’t Stay Paused Forever

College Forward

The military also offers several avenues for service members and veterans to attend school either while they serve, ROTC programs that require service after graduation, or programs for veterans to attend school once they finish their last contract. .

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

Higher Ed Connects: News

Following up on Pell Grants for the incarcerated. In July I shared perspectives from a long-ago source of mine — an expert on prison education — on the groundswell for reversing the ban on Pell Grants for incarcerated people.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Budgets for an Assessment and Planning Librarian

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A: Doctoral-granting university libraries in ACRL spend about 37 percent of their budgets on salaries, 13 percent on fringe benefits, 40 percent on materials and 11 percent on operations. Blog: Learning Innovation Sarah R.

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REF 2021: reflecting on results, rules and regulations, and reform (again)

SRHE

I took that to be mandatory, and it led to many staff being moved to ‘teaching only’ contracts. But… some institutions listed constraints to strategic delivery without saying what they had done to respond; some were poor on equity beyond gender and on support for PGRs and contract researchers. Another declaration of interest, he gave me a considerable grant to assess its impact (!) by Ian McNay. Research Excellence Framework 2021.

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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. Andrew Koricich 05:33 It is, and if we were to look at only the ones that grant degrees, then it’s an even more significant percentage.

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The hostile takeover of public higher education in Florida continues, as seen in the latest higher education bill introduced in the state’s House of Representatives.

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Technology and Teacher Training: Utilizing Simulated Environments for Real Practice

Higher Ed Connects: Technology

SELU contracts with Mursion© to deliver customized mixed reality training simulations that recreate the most demanding interpersonal challenges, and precise classroom realities that educators confront on the job every day (Mursion© 2018). by Melanie Forstall Lemoine, Ph.D.

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Reflections of the Career of a University Expatriate

Edu Alliance Journal

Funding opportunities and grant support may be harder to come by or mainly restricted to nationals of the country. An expatriate might receive instead an end-of-contract lump-sum gratuity payment, the size of which may vary depending on final salary and years of service.

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A new generation of conservative student newspapers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Nathaniel Greve launched an alternative student newspaper at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a way to help heal what he saw as the flawed political speech environment on campus.

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One Fascism or Two?: The Reemergence of "Fascism(s)" in US Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

Boards, Endowments, Contracts) Role of Elite Families in Higher Education (e.g. The Higher Education Inquirer is conducting an extensive investigation of the reemergence of fascism in US higher education.