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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. The same campus that recruited, supported, and welcomed me as a first-generation college student in the 1990s would likely be ill-equipped to do the same today.

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A pantomime without a happy ending

SRHE

Cinderella would love to go but has no well-paid staff to wear; the DfE and OfS ugly sisters prepare eagerly by appointing more recruitment consultants. Best of all, Cinderella’s pay rags turn into a shimmering and apparently permanent contract, and her glass ceiling is transformed into slippers. Sleeping Beauty.

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The Helen Perkins era

SRHE

Helen Perkins was appointed as Director of the Society for Research into Higher Education in 2004. In December 2021, after another very successful Research Conference, she gave notice of her intention to retire. The benefits were such that the Society was able to introduce its now established series of annual research grants.

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Academic freedom policies should mean something (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Events in the Sunshine State also reflect an ongoing legal debate over the extent that First Amendment rights apply to public college and university professors in carrying out their teaching, research and service duties. In alignment with institutional academic freedom policies, public higher education faculty should not fall under Garcetti.

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

College Forward

Look into if you could go down a cable plan, maybe not have every paid streaming service (or at least choose a less-expensive plan), and research less-expensive phone plans. If you feel like you may be paying too much for car insurance, research plans and costs. Research Military Benefits. Create Multiple Sources of Income.

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

Higher Ed Connects: News

After it spent more than $850-million over the past two years to buy companies that offer professional education and run coding boot camps in conjunction with colleges, 2U investors could hardly have been shocked over the company’s moves to diversify from a reliance on contracts with universities for master’s degrees. I suspect, not very.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joshua Reda, NCC’s director of housing, recruitment and conferences, says current interest is strong. Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible.