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Unleashing Economic Opportunity: Honoring the Legacy of the March on Washington

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By directing resources towards sectors such as renewable energy, biotechnology, and the digital economy, institutions can foster innovation and create new job opportunities. Through cutting-edge research, faculty and students can work collaboratively with industry partners to develop pioneering technologies and solutions. Dr. Marcus A.

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New Recommendations for Encouraging Open-Access Publishing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Last summer, the White House mandated that any research based on federally funded studies must be made freely available to the public without an embargo. ” The new policy presents hurdles for colleges, publishers and funding agencies, but some expect that it will benefit society. Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Much of the book details the wealth advantage of the richest universities, which can raise tuition at will—stoking public resentment—and which don’t have to discount tuition, while expending a lower proportion of their endowment than poorer institutions. The 35 most prestigious U.S. The 35 most prestigious U.S.

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Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding | Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian Higher Education

Fundamental restructuring must happen, along with an honest debate about what – and who – higher education is really for Imagine a beach before the tsunami. Out at sea, the wave is gathering force, yet on the sand people are still sunbathing, blissfully unaware. That’s how it feels, one professor tells me, to be working in higher education.

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Do You Remember Who Spoke at Your Commencement?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Sporting red regalia, red high-top Converse sneakers, Ray-Ban sunglasses, a cap featuring a Kodak paper box top cut to fit its flat top (I was an oh-so-clever art major) and with my Nikon camera dangling from my neck, I sat among some 5,000 students in Boston University’s Nickerson Field stadium. Why are they chosen?

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SRHE News at 50: Looking back…

SRHE

After the first issue of SRHE News in February 2010, No 2 (The World to Come), came out just before the May 2010 election with HE facing major financial cuts, but we were still upbeat: … in difficult times let us think not only of what the community can do for our institution, and what our institution can do for our students.

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

A recent government report suggested cutting enrollment and enforcing higher entry standards to certain fields of study. Today, that visibility is largely lacking, and to the detriment of students, institutions, businesses, governments, and society at large.